however, all save two of the nineteen species of Tvistellateia 
hitherto described are natives of Madagascar or East Tropical 
Africa, T. australis appears to occur only in the eastern 
portion of this region; its most western habitats, so far as 
is known, are the Malayan Peninsula and Siam, whence it 
extends eastward through the Malayan Archipelago to 
Queensland, New Guinea, New Ireland, the Solomon 
Islands, New Caledonia, the Philippines and Formosa. 
Description.— Shrub, climbing; twigs with prominent 
lenticels, at first sparingly puberulous with centrally 
attached hairs, at length glabrous; flowering shoots 
pendulous. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute 
and recurved at the apex, base usually rounded and some- 
what folded, 2-4 in. long, 1-24 in. wide, dull, glabrous, 
lateral nerves above rather pale, secondary nervation indis- 
tinct, beneath closely reticulate with a rather prominent 
midrib; lateral nerves arching, 4-5 on each side; petioles 
4-3 in. long, markedly channelled, puberulous, with slightly 
serrulate edges; stipules subulate, acute, slightly adnate. 
Racemes 2-6 in. long, 12-16-flowered, the flowers opposite, 
peduncled. Buds shortly cymbiform, concave behind, 
5-ribbed ; peduncles 3-4 lin. long, with 2 small apical 
subulate bracts ; pedicels 6-8 lin. long, thickened upwards. 
Sepals small, erect, oblong, eglandular. Petals imbricate, 
oblong or ovate-oblong, 5-6 lin. long, obtuse, base truncate 
or subcordate, the claw 1 lin. long. Stamens 10, 2-seriate, 
those opposite the petals the longer; filaments shortly 
connate at the base, in bud yellow, soon becoming reddish 
and ultimately, after the anthers fall, deep red; those 
Opposite petals 2 lin. long, stout; those opposite sepals 
in. long and more slender; anthers oblong, shortly 
beaked, about 1 lin. long, opening by terminal pores. 
vary globose, somewhat 6-angled, about 1 lin. wide, 
3-celled ; crested opposite the cells, silky hairy on the 
intervening areas; styles 3, unequal, one 3 lin. long, the 
second half as long, the third minute; ovules solitary, 
pendulous. Fruit 3-coccous ; cocci about 8-winged, the 
wings narrow oblong. 
Fic. ‘ S ‘ 
ee geod - flower, the petals partly removed; 3, a hair; 4 and 5, 
all enlarged, 7, vertical section of pistil, showing the styles :— 
