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ing in succession from the base up, fragrant. Peduncles 

 and pedicels round and clothed with rust coloured down, 

 like the other tender parts ; the latter from one to two 

 inches long, ascending; apex clavate, this club or en- 

 largement is hollow, with a perforation from the apex 

 immediately within the attachment of the pedicel of the 

 germ, and as it is common to all, it may very properly be 

 called the tube of the calyx. Bractes minute, caducous 

 at an early period. Calyx of five linear, thick, fleshy, 

 reflexed, caducous leaflets. Petals five oblong ; base ta- 

 pering into claws, the exterior two large, the inner 

 one very small. Filaments five, the three exterior ones 

 fertile, incurved, shorter than the two longest petals, 

 smooth, white, the two inner ones minute. Anthers very 

 large, incumbent. Germ short, thick and villous. Stig- 

 ma very large, and clammy. Legume sublanceolate, thin, 

 very smooth, of a dark chesnut colour. Seeds a. few, near- 

 ly round, flat, and smooth. 



16. B.ferruginea. R. 



Scandent. Leaves siibrotund, two-lobed. Racemes ter- 

 minal, solitary. Tendrils s,o\iia.ry. Pe^a/s lanceolate, ob- 

 tuse, downy on the outside. Filaments five, three with 

 anthers, and two sterile. 



A very large, woody, scandent species, a native of 

 the Malay Islands^ &c. about the straits of Malacca. 



17. B. integrifolia. R. 



Scandent. Leaves subrotund, emarginate ; floral leaves, 

 cordate, acute. Corymbs panicled. Filaments five, three 

 with anthers, and two sterile. 



A large, woody, climbing species, a native of Pulo Pi- 

 nang. 



Stem, and larger branches woody, climbing over trees, 

 &c. bark smooth; young shoots covered with dark rust- co- 

 loured down. Leaves alternate, petioled, orbicular, emar- 



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