XLVI. CON NARACE JE. 
Ellipanthus.] 
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(4) E. gibbosus King, l.c. 10. 
Small tree 10 to 16 ft. tall, 2 to 3 in. through. Leaves mem¬ 
branous, oblong-elliptic shortly caudate-acuminate, base cuneate 
edge undulate; nerves 7 to 8 pairs prominent beneath, 4-5 to 6'5 in. 
long, 175 to 275 in. wide; petioles '5 to ’6 in. long, tomentose. 
Cymes dense, short, few-flowered, ‘4 in. long, hairy. Calyx-lobes 
lanceolate. Petals little longer tomentose outside. Follicle oblong, 
compressed with a long conical beak, base gibbous above and 
contracted into a curved stalk, tomentose, 1 to 1*5 in. long, '4 in. 
wide ; stalk 1 in. long. Hab. Hill forests; Johor, Gunong Pantai; 
Perak, Gapis (Curtis); Ulu Kerling; Ulu Slim and Kinta (Kunstler); 
Tapah (Wray); Waterloo (Curtis). 
3 . ROUREA, Aubl. 
Large woody Hanes. Leaves unequally pinnate; leaflets rarely 
1, often numerous, coriaceous. Racemes or panicles axillary, 
numerous. Flowers small, white; pedicels slender. Sepals 5, 
orbicular enlarged in fruit. Petals 5, linear-oblong. Stamens 10; 
filaments connate at base; ovaries 5, 4 usually imperfect; style 
slender; follicle sessile, curved. Seed arillate. Species about 50, 
all tropics. 
Leaflets not more than 11, petiolulate ovate. 
Leaflet usually 1, rarely 3 . . . . . (i) R. anomala 
Leaflet 3 to 9, rarely 11. 
Leaflets glaucous beneath . . . . (2) R. acuminata 
Leaflets not glaucous. 
Leaves 3 to 7 in. long; leaflets ovate-lanceo¬ 
late; flowers-25 in. long . . . {3) R. pulchella 
Leaves 3*5 to 5 in. long; leaflets 3 (or 5) broad 
ovate.(4) R. humilis 
Leaflets very numerous, small, oblong sessile. 
Leaflets blunt acuminate, 2 to 3*25 in. long, pubes¬ 
cent beneath.(5) R. rugosa 
Leaflets broad at tip, bifid, *5 to '75 in. long, sparsely 
pubescent beneath . . . . (6) R. similis 
Leaflets broad round-tipped. 
Beneath rusty-silky . . . . . (7) R. fulgens 
Beneath glabrous . . . . . . (8) R. concolor 
(1) R. anomala King, l.c. ix. 
Big liane, glabrous. Leaves with 1 to 3 leaflets, coriaceous, 
ovate-elliptic shortly blunt caudate-acuminate, base round broad; 
nerves 6 pairs, 3 to 4*5 in. long, i’6 to 2*2 in. wide; petiolules 
•2 in. long or less. Racemes slender, lax, 3 in. long, several together. 
Flowers -35 in. long, red and white on pedicels as long. Calyx- 
lobes ovate-orbicular, puberulous outside. Petals linear-oblong, 
three times as long. Follicle oblique ovoid blunt, yellow tinted 
red, 1 in. long. Seed-aril red. Hab. Perak, Sungei Rayah, Goping 
(Kunstler). 
