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crowded. Fruit ovoid, glabrous, obtusely 5-angled and furrowed, 3 

 in. long. ; endocarp fibrous, aarcocarp fleshy. 



Malacca ; Griffith No. 947 ; Maingay (Kew Disti-ib, ) as 273. Perak, 

 Scortechini, King's collector, Wray. 



3. CoNNAROPSis MACKOPHTLLA, King u. sp. A shrub or small 

 tree : young branches glabrescent or glabrous. Leaves 1-foliolate, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, scarcely 

 narrowed to the rounded sub-truncate or sub-emarginate base; main 

 nerves 8 or 9 pairs, spreading, the reticulations distinct beneath : 

 length 6 to ]2 in., breadth 235 to 365 in. ; petiole "5 in., jointed above 

 the middle. Flowers in two or three terminal or lateral spikes which 

 are sometimes united to form a kind of panicle. Spikes glabrescent, 

 2 or 3 in. long. Flowers ci'owded. Fruit ovoid, apiculate, glabrous, 

 about '3 in. long. 



Perak: King's collector, Nos. 433, 3124 ; Ridley No. 3087, Pro- 

 vince "Wellesley ; Curtis No. 474. 



4. Dapania, Korthals. 



Woody climbers. Leaves alternate, simple, coriaceous, entire, the 

 petiole jointed about the middle. Flowers small, regular, sometimes 

 unisexual, in slender spike-like racemes which are solitary, or in fas- 

 cicles, axillary or from tubercles on the stem. Sepals 5, connate at the 

 base, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, imbiicate, longer than the sepals. 

 Stamens 10, the alternate 5 shorter, all united at the base into a 

 shallow tube. Ovary deeply 5-lobed, 5-ceIled, each cell usually with 

 1 (sometimes with 2) pendulous ovule from an axile placenta. Fruit 

 clavate, the calyx pei'sistent but not enlarged, deeply 5-lobed, 

 the epicarp slightly fleshy, the endocarp fibrous, 5-celled, 5-seeded, 

 dehiscing loculicidally so as to form a five-rayed fibrous star with 

 a seed attached to the central ridge (placenta) of each segment. Dis- 

 TRiB. About 4 species ; all Malayan. 



1. Dapania scandens, Stapf in Hook. Ic. PL, t. 1997. A glabrous 

 climber 50 to 100 feet long. Leaves ovate-elliptic, acuminate, the base 

 rounded ; main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, ascending, faint, length 3 to 5 in., 

 breadth 1"25 to 2 in. ; petiole "25 to '35 in., jointed about the middle. 

 Racemes slender, puberulous, about 1'5 to 2*5 in. long. Flowers some 

 hermaphrodite and some with stamens only, '1 to '15 in. long, each with 

 a minute ovate bracteole at the base of its short pedicel. Calyx-lobes 

 obtuse, ciliolate. Petals oblong, ob-lanceolate, twice as long as the calyx. 

 Fruit 3 in. long, dehiscing into a flat star-shaped mass 4 in. in diam. 

 Gonnaropsis dioica, Scortechini MSS. in Hei'b. Calcutta. 



Perak : Curtis. Scortechini, Wray, King's collector. 



By far the majority of the flowers have stamens only, the pistils 



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