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Large shrubs, glabrous or minutely pubescent. Leaves opposite, short-peti- 

 oled, ovate or oblong, entire, coriaceous, 3-nerved. i^Yowe?'5 axillary, lon^-pedun- 

 cled, solitary or clustered, large (excepting. ^wftercwZa^a); peduncles 1-3-flowereQ, 

 pedicels 2-bracteolate in the middle. Calyx-tube cami)aaulate or hemispheriCj 

 covered with elongated scales or simple tubercles ; limb 4-lobed and pers^- 

 tent or calyptriform and deciduous. Petals 4, ovate or oblong. ^ Stamens^ 8, 

 equal, filaments short, subulate ; anthers short, very thick, opening by shts, 

 connective at the base naked or shortly spurred. Ovmy inferior, 4-celled, apex 

 glabrous depressed ; style filiform, stigma clavate ; ovules very many, placentas 

 sub-basal. Berry subglobose, covered with scales or tubercles, or in K. tuber- 

 ciiliita ultimately nearly smooth. Seeds cuneate-obovoid, angular.— Distkib. 

 Species 14 ; confined to Malaya, from Pinang to Borneo. 



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Bene, in Deless. Ic, SeL v. t. 5 and in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. v. 317. 



K. cupularis, 

 Pternandra 



echinata, Jack in MaL Misc. ii. Addenda prefixed to the pajyer 3 ; TFalL Cat. 

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TBiB. Borneo, Philippines. 



Singapore; T. Anderson,— 'Dis- 



Young branches obscurely quadrangular, rusty puberulous. Leaves 2-3 in., oblong 

 or elliptic, acuminate, -when young pubescent beneath, when mature glabrescent or 

 with rusty pubescence on the nerves; petiole ^-i in. Pedmicles 1- (less often «*-J 



flowered ; bracts nearly \ in., oblong, persistent, 

 rusty pubescent. 



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2. K, puhe&cens, Dene, in Ann. Sc. Nat ser. 3. v. 318; ^^f^^^^jl 

 long base somewhat rounded or subcordate, calyx-tube with triangular snon. 

 subulate scales, those tov^rards the top of the tube scarcely ^ in., limb 4 

 persistent, fruit i in. broad. Tnana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx\-iii. 152. 



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Young branches obscurely quadrangular, rusty puberulous. Leaves 2-3 in., oh o^g 

 OT elliptic, acuminate, Tfrhen mature ^^-ith minute rusty pubescence beneath, nerves w 

 longer pubescence; petiole hardly ^ in. Scales of the cahjx- tube minutely rusi^ 

 pubescent. Apex of ihe ovary in fruit concave, with 16 radiating lines.— very n 

 the preceding species. 



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 Bcales those towards the top of the tube linear elongate, limb calyptnfoma ac. 

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