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about its middle, and 4 broad convenient triangular teeth. Petals 6 or 
more, the outer three sericeous outside and glabrous inside, the inner 
quite glabrous ; all broadly elliptic, free from the staminal-tabe. Stami- 
nal-tube shorter than the petals, cylindric, glabrescent, the mouth with 
shallow broad erose teeth. Stamens 12, attached at the very base of 
the tube; anthers linear-elongate. Ovary conic, apparently 5-celled; 
style cylindric, pubescent; stigma discoid, concave. 
Perak ; Scortechini No. 7000, Curtis No. 2693. 
In its leaves, and also to some extent in its inflorescence, this agrees 
with the type specimen of 0. spectabile, Miq., collected by Korthals in 
Borneo, and now in the Herbarium at Leiden. That specimen is in bud 
only, and neither Scortechini’s nor Curtis’s specimens have fully 
expanded flowers. The buds both of this and of C. spectabile are of 
the same clavate shape. Miquel does not describe the flowers of G. spect¬ 
abile , and the buds in Korthal’s type specimen are so young and 
so few, that I did not dare to dissect one of them. The buds on 
Scortechini’s scanty specimens of this are also too young for accu¬ 
rate examination. But an examination of one of Mr. Curtis’s dis¬ 
closes the structure above described. The flowers are remarkable 
because of the waved thickened band which runs round the exterior of 
the calyx just below the teeth. The ovary, moreover, of this appears 
to have 5 cells, whereas the species of the genus Ghisochetcn have only 
2 or 4. This character together with the lengthening of the base of 
the flower into a pseudo-stalk and the annular thickening of the base of 
the calyx, approximate this species to the genus Megaphyllea. In the 
meantime I put it into Ghisocheton. Good flowering specimens of this 
singular plant are much to be desired. 
10. Chisocheton macrophyllus, King, n. sp. A tree 60 feet high. 
Leaves 5 or 6 feet long, the petiole and rachis obliquely 4-angled, sub- 
glabrous ; leaflets membranous, opposite, oblong, the apex with a short 
blunt acumen; the base broad, rounded, unequal-sided : upper surface 
quite glabrous, the lower paler, minutely pubescent on the midrib and 
nerves when young ; main nerves 18 to 20 pairs, spreading, rather pro¬ 
minent beneath when dry; length 5 to 13 in., breadth 35 to 4 in., petio- 
lules ’3 in. Panicles 2 to 3 feet long, narrow, puberulous ; the branches 
rather distant, from 3 to 3'5 in. long, the ultimate branchlets cymulose, 
many-flowered. Flowers *5 or *6 in. long, narrow, on pubescent pedi¬ 
cels less than '1 in. long. Calyx cupular, pubescent, about *05 deep, 
its mouth obscurely 4-toothed or entire. Petals 4, many times longer 
than the calyx, linear with spathulate concave apices, puberulous on 
the outer, glabrous on the inner surface. Staminal-tube slightly shor¬ 
ter than the petals, adherent to them for half its length, outside glabres- 
