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In sylvls ad Kwala Lumpur and Batu Tiga in ditione Selangor, 

 Fl. Feb.-March {Ridley 11934). 



This curious plant, of which I have only seen male flowers, seems 

 to be most closely allied to Tinospora. It is chiefly peculiar in 

 having the sepals in 2 series, or they may be considered one series of 

 sepals and one of petals connate in a short tube, and with a 

 minute triquetrous pistillode in the centre. The three- nerved leaves 

 iind long-pendulous racemes in panicles give it a cm-ious appearance. 

 I have twice met with it in Selangor — first in the Batu Tiga district, 

 now quite denuded of its original flora by the rubber cultivation, and 

 a second time in a wood near Kvvala Lumpur. 



Tinospora Curtisii Ridl., n. sp. 



Scandens. Folia subcoriacea ovata ad basin breviter cordata, 

 apicibus mucronulatis, nervis 3 paribus, subtus cum reticulationibus 

 olevatis 10 cm. longa, 7d cm. lata, petiolis 25 cm. longis. Lijlores- 

 centia laxe et parce paniculata ramis 9 cm. longis vel brevioribus. 

 Flores 3 mm. late singuli cum paucis racemosis. BractecB minutae 

 acuminata. Pedicelli triplo longiores. Sepala 3 rotundata lata. 

 Petala 5 longiora lanceolata acuminata, stamina 6 filamentis brevibus 

 latis liberis, antheri subglobosis. Flores ftjeminei et fructus desunt. 



Penan o", Batu Feringhi, near the beach, March 1900, Curtis 

 3464. 



This has the characteristic pale fawn-coloured loose bark with 

 warts common to most species of the genus. The leaves are more 

 coriaceous than in any species known to me, and nearly entire at the base 

 instead of being conspicuously cordate or truncate. The nerves of the 

 leaf are nearly all pinnate, the lowest pair, however, being nearly 

 opposite and running halfway up the leaf parallel to the margin. 

 The inflorescence is minutely puberulous and has more of the 

 character of a Diploclisia. The species is nearest perhaps to T. uli- 

 ainosa Miers ; the flowers are as large as those of that species, but 

 on longer pedicels, and the leaves are quite different. A plant col- 

 lected hy Mr. C. B. Clarke at Decca in South India closely resembles 

 this and may perhaps be identical with it. 



Scaphocalyx Ridl., n. gen. {FlaeourtiacecB), 



Arbores glabri. Folia alterna trinervia. Flores unisexuales in 

 fasciculis lateralibus in ramis, parvi pedicellati. Calyx petala primo 

 teo-ens in uno latere dehiscens vel in lobis 4 brevibus dehiscens. 

 Fetala 5 angusta breviter ad basin connata calyce sequantia vel 

 superantia angusta, stamina 6, filamentis brevibus, antheris longiori- 

 bus. Fistillodium nullum. Flores foeminei desunt. Bacca magna 

 subo"lobosa laticifera, stigmatibus sessilibus 6-8. Semina plura 

 irregulariter in pulpo dispersa. 



Species 2. Peninsula Malaica. 



This genus belongs to the Flacourtiacece and is allied to Hydiio- 

 carpus, which the plants resemble in habit and especially in the 

 fruit. The trees appear to be altogether unisexual, which, however, is 

 not unusual in this group, and the stamens are fewer than is usual. 

 The curious spathaceous somewhat leathery calyx which eventually 



