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find in its allies, though there are traces of it in 7. Kleinii. Fragment of a follicle 
cylindrie, glabrous. 
7. T. Kurzii, Hook. f.; leaves large broadly elliptic-ovate broadly cuspi- 
date coriaceous shining, cymes small, flowers few sessile, calyx nearly glabrous, 
coronal scales obtuse hardly overtopping the anther-cells, stigma long slender. 
Mrippre Anpaman Isian, Kurz. 
I have seen but one specimen, which is nearest to T. Kleinit, differing in the large 
(4-5 by 21-3 in.) coriaceous leaves, long (2 in.) petioles and nearly glabrous calyx. 
» ong (3 1n.) p y8g 
** Corolla lobes with a triangular erose scale adnate to their bases. 
8. T. acuminatus, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 747 ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate 
acuminate quite glabrous shining base acute, cymes branching from the base 
branches and branchlets very long slender few-fld., flowers pedicelled. Gonio- 
stemma acuminatum, Wight Contrib. 62; Wall. Cat. 8242; Dene. in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 504.. S 
Stuer, Wallich. 
Stem glabrous, pustular. Leaves 4-5 by 14-14 in., shining on both surfaces; 
nerves many, faint, spreading; petiole 1-3 in. Cymes almost glabrous, nearly 
equalling the leaves ; pedicels very slender; bracts very minute. Sepals very small, 
rounded. Corolla 1 in. diam., quite glabrous, lobes lanceolate twice as long as the 
tube. Coronal scales triangular, shorter than the column. Stigma long, fusiform. 
DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
T. ertocarpus, Hook. f.; leaves elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate acute at both 
8 quite glabrous, petiole slender, nerves slender very oblique, follicles long curved 
ete finely pubescent, seeds linear-oblong tip not contracted. 
TRAVANCORE ; at Courtallan, Wight. 
Branches glabrous, woody, Leaves 21-3 by 1-14 in. firm, pale when dry; 
ii 3-3 in. Flowers not seen.  Follieles 5-7 by } in. woody. Seeds $ in. 
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roe Boxnvnenn, Grif. Notul. iv. 68; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 386a f. 4, 5, not of W. $ A. 
T Mergui. This, though referred by Griffith to Roxburgh's Asclepias longistigma 
(T. Rozburghii, W. & A.), is certainly not that plant, and is, I suspect, T. Griffithii. 
506 T. Wicurttanvs, Hook, & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 200; Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 
ellipti stem very slender, young densely rusty-tomentose, leaves small 1-1} in. 
n Pile oblong cuspidate glabrous above rusty-pubescent beneath, base rounded, 
erves 2-4 pairs, slender oblique, petiole } in.—Specimens in leaf only collected] by 
recent omeon and myself at the Bor-panee river, Khasia Mts. alt. 2000 ft., quite 
A mble the Chinese 7° Wightianus, which may be known by its very small cymes of 
Vers, like those of 7" himalensis, and its short tomentose pods. 
16. GENIANTHUS, Hook. f., Gen. Nov. 
din ning shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, in axillary subsimple or 
Stomously branched cymes. Calyx minute, lobes oblong obtuse. Corolla- 
Rolly rt; lobes narrow, spreading and recurved, villous to the tip on the 
minut ace, valvate. Corona of 5 scales adnate to the column. Staminal-column 
or lo * 5 pollen-masses 2 in each cell, minute, waxy. Stigma sessile and capitate, 
ng and slender, — DISTRIB. Species 3 or 4 tropical Asiatic and Malayan. 
This s ae, i 
valvate atinata distinguished from Torocarpus by the bearded corolla-lobes and 
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Stigma sessile, capitate. Cymes very compound. 
