XXV. TILIACE.E. 
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the other; nerves 2 on one side, i on the other; nervules prominent 
beneath, edge entire spinnlose, above, stellate-hairy, beneath 
velvety, ‘6 in. long, 3 in. wide; petioles *5 in. long. Panicle 
terminal spreading, 7 in. long, velvety-grey; cymes compact. 
Bracts ovate boat-shaped, blunt. Flowers *5 in. long, white. 
Sepals linear-oblong, blunt, hairy. Petals lanceolate oblong, 
sub-acute, as long. Torus low, silky. Style hairy. Hah. Lime¬ 
stone rocks. Perak at Lenggong (Ridley). 
(3) C. diptera Ridl. Journ. Roy . /Is. Soc. S. Br. 59, p. 78. 
Deciduous tree about 40 ft. tall. Young parts pubescent. 
Leaves lanceolate long acuminate, base nearly equilateral rounded, 
grey pubescent beneath when young, adult more coriaceous, 
nearly glabrous; nerves 5 pairs elevate beneath; nervules hori¬ 
zontal, scabrid, midrib pubescent, 4 in. long, 1 in. wide; petioles 
*25 in. long, slender. Inflorescence secund. Flowers unknown. 
Fruit 2-winged, top retuse, base broad, glabrous, striate, wings 
rounded *5 in. long, 75 in. wide. Ovary 2-celled, 2-seeded. Hab. 
Open country. Perlis at Besih Hangat (Ridley). 
(4) C. Curtisii Ridl. Journ. Roy. /Is. Soc. S. Br. 59, p. 80. 
Tree. Leaves lanceolate, base cuneate, slightly unequal, edges 
entire sparsely pubescent above, beneath more densely grey pubes¬ 
cent; nerves 4 pairs, 3 in. long, 1 in. across; petioles '25 in. long. 
Inflorescence terminal, pubescent. Fruit 3-winged, wings oblong, 
rounded, striate pubescent, 75 in. across, apex retuse, base cuneate. 
Hab. Lankawi, small islands (Curtis). 
Allied to C. merguensis Planch., but with smaller leaves. I have seen 
no flowers. 
9. TRICHOSPERMUM, Bl. 
Trees with stellate puberulous leaves. Flowers in axillary and 
umbellate cymes or panicles. Sepals 5, valvate. Petals 5, with 
basal scale. Stamens numerous, free, on an annular sub-crenate 
villous-edged disc; anthers short, broad versatile with sub-orbicular 
connective. Ovary 2-celled; ovules numerous, placentas axile; 
style short. Stigma expanded, papillose. Capsule orbicular- 
reniform, compressed, loculicidally 2-valved. Seeds many, len¬ 
ticular with marginally villous aril; albumen fleshy. Species 3, 
Malayan and Polynesian. 
Capsule transversely elliptic not keeled . . . (1) T. Kurzii 
Capsule inversely cymbiform keeled . . . (2) T. cymbiforme 
(1) T. Kurzii King, l.c. 119. Bixagrewia nicobarica Kurz, 
Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 325, t. 169. 
Tree 40 to 100 ft. tall, 15 to 20 in. through. Leaves mem¬ 
branous, ovate-elliptic, acuminate, serrate-crenate, base rounded, 
sub-truncate, sub-cordate; nerves 5 pairs, 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 
3 in. wide; petioles *5 in. long. Panicles long-peduncled. Flowers 
•4 in. long, light brown outside, green within. Sepals oblong, acute. 
