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rachis less than '5 in. long, 4-to 8-flowered ; pedicels "75 in. long, brac- 

 teolate at the base. Sepals ovate, blunt. 



Malacca : on mount Ophir, Hullett. 



An imperfectly known plant, easily distinguished from both the 

 other species by its much shorter racemes and more coriaceous leaves. 



2. Brachylophon Curtisii, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Plantar, t. 1566. 

 A shrub 3 to 6 feet high. Leaves membranous, narrowly elliptic to 

 ovate-rotund, acuminate, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, 

 the lower scaberulous ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, not much more promi- 

 nent than the intermediate, oblique, interarching 'IS in. from the edge ; 

 length 3'5 to 7 in., breadth 2 to 2*25 in., petiole '1 in. Racemes corym- 

 bose, 1 to 2 in. long. Floivers *75 in. in diam. ; pedicels slendei', "8 to 1*2 

 in. long, bracteolate at the base. Petals yellow, oblong, obtuse, entire, 

 shortly clawed, '5 in. long. Ripe frtdt 85 to '5 in. long, "25 in. broad. 



Penaug: Curtis No. 231. 



3. Brachtlophon Scortechinii, King, n. sp. A shrub 3 to 6 feet 

 high. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate to oblong- elliptic, some- 

 times oblong-oblanceolate, tapei'ing from the middle to each end, both 

 surfaces glabrous : main nerves 13 to 15 pairs, rather faint, sub-horizontal, 

 interarching '15 to "2 in. from the edge: length 5 to Jl in., breadth 2 

 to 4 in., petiole "15 in. Racemes corymbose, terminal and axillary, 2 

 to 3 in. long, many-flowered, the rachis tuberculate. Floivers about "6 

 in. in diam. ; pedicels slender, '65 to 1 in. long, bracteolate at the base. 

 Calyx-teeth oblong, obtuse, puberulous, the edges ciliolate. Petals ovate, 

 obtuse, entire, glabrous, "5 in. long. Filaments flattened, unequal but 

 all much longer than the petals. Ovary 3- to 4-lobed, or 3- to 4-celled : 

 styles 3 or 4, as long as the filaments, spreading, cylindric. Fruit un- 

 known. Ryssopteris elliptica, Scortechini MSS. 



Perak : Scortechini, Wray, King's collector. 



I have not seen fruit of this. In its flowers it closely resembles 

 £. Curtisii, Oliver, but its leaves are larger, more membranous, and have 

 more numerous nerves than those of B. Curtisii. 



Order XXII. GERANIACE^. 



Herbs, undershrubs, or rarely trees ; glabrous or more usually 

 pubescent and glandular. Leaves opposite or alternate, usually 2- 

 stipulate. Peduncles usually solitary and axillary, 1- or more flowered. 

 Floioers umbelled, cymose or racemose, usually showy, hermaphrodite, 

 regular or iri-egular. Sepals 5, rarely 4 or 2, free or united to the 

 middle, imbricate or rarely valvate, the posticous sometimes spurred. 

 Petals as many as the sepals or fewer by suppression, or 0, hypogynous 

 or subperigynous, variously imbricated, rarely contorted. Torus scarcely 



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