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Leaves drying pale greenisli grey, nervation well marked on the upper side, less clear 

 on the lower; petioles 2-3 mm. long, stoutish, channelled above, glabrous. Segments of 

 calyx 0-75 mm. long. Corollas barely 5 mm. across, the undivided part 0-5 mm., the 

 lobes 2-5 mm. long. Pollinia 0"3 mm., gland about O'l mm. long. 



Allied to the last, but unlike it by reason of the broader, thinner leaves and the long 

 and very slender peduncles, the smaller flowers, the corona reaching nearly to the top of 

 the gynostegium, and the short appendages to the anthers. 



HoYA (§Physostelma) oxtcoccoides, S. Moore, sp. nov. 



Caulis volubilis, tenuis, subdistauter foliosus, puberulus. Folia parvula, petiolata, 

 obovata, nonnunquam fere suborbicularia, rotundata, apice mucronata, basi breviter 

 cuneatim angustata, margine recurva, coriacea, supra optime reticulata, utrinque 

 glabra, 12-18x7-9 mm. Umbellce circa 6-flor8e, jiedunculis gracilibus puberulis 

 folia longe excedentibus 5-6 cm. longis fultae ; pedicelli pedunculis breviores, 

 glabri, circa 2 cm. longi. Calycis segmenta parva, oblongo-ovata, obtusa, ciliolata, 

 1-5 mm. longa. Cor^olla paullulum ultra medium lobata, 2 cm. diam. ; lobi 

 deltoideo-ovati, obtusi, intus margine dense pubescentes, ceteroquin glabri, 6 mm. 

 longi. Coronce phylla crassa, subhorizontalia (sc. breviter ascendentia), apice 

 (interne) erecta, acuta, superne obovata, medio concava, postice obtusissima, 

 lateribus rotundatis, crassiusculis. Follinia oblonga, obtusa ; glaadula oblonga, 

 caudiculis circiter sequilonga. 

 Camps III to VIII, 2500 to 4900 ft. 



Leaves bright green and faintly shining above when dry, opaque and pale below ; 

 petioles 3-5 mm. long, puberulous. Pollinia 0*5 mm., gland 0'15 mm. long. 



This is evidently closely allied to S. microphylla, Schlechter and S. pulchella, 

 Schlechter, as Schlechter's figure and descriptions show, but it has certain points 

 of difference which seem to prevent its being considered conspecific with either ; these 

 differences are shown in the accompanying table. As Schlechter observes, the leaves 

 of these and one or two other species greatly resemble those of Dischidia. 



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