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in., breadth 1*5 to 2 in., petiole '35 in. Flowers in dense axillary 

 fascicles ; pedicels shorter than the flowers, each with several rotund, 

 concave, minute bracteoles, one of which is close to the calyx. Calyx 

 a shallow cup with 5 broad rounded concave segments. Petals "2 in. 

 long, much longer than the calyx, erect, oblong, obtuse, their apices 

 re-curved, pubescent on the edges and in the upper fourth of the inner 

 surface. Stamens opposite the petals to which their filaments are 

 attached for two-thirds of their length ; anthers short, ovate. Ovary 

 sub-globular, grooved, much shorter than the long cylindric style, 

 stigma minute. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : King's Collector, No. 7824. Penang : Curtis, No. 859. 



Evidently a Strombosia ; the fruit, however, is as yet unknown. 



3. Strombosia rotundifolia. King. A tree or shrub; youno- 

 branches rather stout ; their bark cinereous, rugose, much lenticellate. 

 Leaves coriaceous, more or less rotund, glabrous ; main nerves 6 or 7 

 pairs, rather straight, sub-ascending, obsolete on the upper, slightly pro- 

 minent on the lower surface when dry ; length 2*5 in., breadth 2 in. ; 

 petiole '3 in., stout. Fascicles small, axillary, few-flowered, shorter than 

 the petioles ; pedicels short, each with 2 or 3 minute rotund scale-like 

 bracteoles. Calyx cupular, with 5 broad rounded imbricate teeth. 

 Petals '15 in. long, much longer than the calyx, oblong, hairy on the 

 upper half inside, otherwise glabrous ; filaments adnate to the petals for 

 half their length, anthers ovate. Ovary sub-globular, style cylindi^ic. 

 Fruit (fide Masters) " the size of a pea, glaucous, globose." Anacalosa 

 Maingayi, Mast, in Hook. fil. Br. Ind. I, 580. 



Singapore: Maingay (Kew Distrib. ), No. 1019. 



A species closely allied to S. multiflora, King, but with differently 

 shaped leaves. The fascicles of this are fewer-flowered, and the flowers 

 are smaller than in that species. I have seen only Maingay's specimen 

 of this, and there is no fruit on it. Dr. Masters puts this plant into 

 Anacalosa, but its petals and anthers are those of Strombosia, to which 

 genus I venture to remove it. 



6. Cansjera, Juss. 

 Climbing shrubs, sometimes spiny. Leaves alternate, entire, penni- 

 nerved. Flowers bi-acfceate, in short axillary spikes, monochlamydeous 

 hermaphrodite. Perianth tubular or urceolate, regular, 4- 5-parted, 

 lobes valvate. Stamens as many as the lobes of the perianth and 

 opposite to them ; filaments glabrous, free, or attached between the 

 fleshy thick lobes of the disk. Anthers small, oblong, adnate, 2-celled 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary superior, ovoid-conical, 1-celled. Style 

 cylindric ; stigma capitate, 4-lobed. Ovule solitary, erect, or pendulous 



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