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base; thinly herbaceous, hairy on the nerves beneath, and edge, 
hairs red; 1-5 to 4-5 in. long and as wide; petioles 1*5 to 2*5 in. long, 
thickly red-hairy. Peduncles slender, 3 to 6 in. long, hairy; 
pedicels slender, i in. long. Bracts 2, lanceolate ovate, hairy, 
•25 in. long. Flowers 2 to 4 in a cyme. Bracteoles obovate, 
fimbriate, •! in. long, nearly as long as the pedicel. Male flowers 
•25 in. wide, white. Sepals broad, rounded reniform. Petals 
apparently none. Anthers numerous, small oblong, blunt at both 
ends, sessile, on a short column. Female flowers not seen. Capsule 
3-winged, *4 in. wide across the wings, -25 in. long; wings 2, 
triangular blunt, base broad, third wing half as long as the others, 
rounded. Hah. Kelantan, Kwala Kek (Foxworthy). 
This plant is perhaps nearest to B. Rajah, Ridl. 
Order LXXI. Araliace^. 
Vol. i. p. 888, after sp. 1, Brassaiopsis palmata Kurz., insert :— 
(ia) B. speciosa Decne. and Planch. Rev. Hort. ser. iv. 10, 106. 
B. floribunda Seem, Journ. Bot. ii. 262. 
Small tree 6 to 15 ft, tall, stem thorny with short thick pale 
thorns. Leaves palmate with 8 leaflets, lanceolate-elliptic cuspidate 
or acuminate, rather stiff, margins sub-entire to obscurely denticu¬ 
late, 6 in. long, 3 in. wide; nerves 7 pairs, slender; petiolules 3 in. 
long; petioles 8 to 14 in. long. Panicle lax, spreading, over a foot 
long and as wide, branches 6 in. long, umbels in flower about i in. 
across, base and pedicels red scurfy; pedicels -25 in. long. Calyx- 
lobes 5, short ovate acute hairy. Petals 5, oblong blunt, tip incurved, 
•I in. long, yellow. Stamens 5, anthers oblong, rather large. Disc 
swollen rugose. Styles 2, cylindric connate. Fruit sub-globose, 
•25 in. long. Seeds i sub-globose or 2 hemispheric. Hah. Pahang, 
Fraser Hill at 4000 to 4370 ft. altitude (Burkill and Holttum 7882). 
Disirih. Assam, Siam, Sumatra, Java. 
Order LXXII. Cornace^e. 
Vol. i. p. 892, after sp. i, Alangium Lamarckii Thw., insert :— 
(ia) a. rotundatum Ridl. 
Tree 50 ft. tall, branches puberulous; branchlets sub-quadrate. 
Leaves herbaceous, ovate abruptly acuminate, base rounded 
glabrous except the puberulous nerves 3 from the base, the outer 
ones with 3, the midrib with 4 lateral nerves; nervules transverse 
parallel, wavy; 4-5 in. long, 3-5 in. wide; petioles 75 in. long, 
puberulous. Cymes axillary, 75 in. long, with two or three branches. 
Flowers cream-colour, about 12, pedicellate. Calyx funnel-shaped, 
with a rounded 5-pointed limb, pubescent, -i in. long. Petals 5, 
oblong-linear blunt, pubescent outside, *2 in. long. Stamens 8, 
filaments long linear, fiat, densely long hairy; anthers short linear. 
Style cylindric, stout, glabrous. Stigma capitate lobed. Hab. 
Mountain forests. Perak, Maxwell s Hill (Burkill). 
