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curving, ascending, prominent beneath as are the transverse nervules ; 

 length 2 to 5 in., breadth 13 to 2'5 in., petiole '4 to "6 in. Cymes both 

 of male and female flowers terminal and extra-axillarj, or occasionally 

 axillary, usually much longer than the leaves, much-branched, and some- 

 times bearing tendrils, softly olivaceous-pubescent ; pedicels longer than 

 the flowers. Male flowers less than '05 in. long, 4-merous, globular in 

 bud. Calyx shorter than the corolla, with 4 acute segments, densely 

 pilose outside. Corolla with 4 broadly ovate concave lobes, pilose 

 outside and glabrous inside. Stamens shorter than the corolla, anthers 

 broadly ovate, rudimentary ovary minute. Female flowers like the males 

 but larger and with the lobes of the corolla i-eflexed. Ovary cylindric, 

 tomentose, crowned by the broad discoid stigma, 1-celled, with 2 pendu- 

 lous collateral ovules. Drupe elliptic, compressed, the apex with a slight 

 apiculus bearing the stigma, the base narrowed ; the calyx and corolla 

 persistent but not enlarged, minutely velvetty ; endocarp bony, 4-angled, 

 smooth inside. Seed solitary. 



Perak ; Wray, King's Collector. 



The tetramerous very small flowers, and large velvetty fruit, dis- 

 tinguish this species. The young branches are sub-glabrous on one 

 side and densely pubescent on the other ; at the nodes these two lines 

 cross. 



2. lODES VELUTINA, King, n. sp. A scandent shrub ; young 

 branches slender, terete, shortly rufous-pubescent, especially so on one 

 side. Leaves coriaceous, ovate, acute or Yerj shortly acuminate ; the 

 base rounded, slightly emarginate ; upper surface spai'sely and minutely 

 pilose, the midrib tomentose ; lower sui'face densely velvetty-tomentose ; 

 main nerves about 4 pairs, ascending, curved ; length 2'5 to 3"75 in., 

 breadth l"35 to 2'25 in., petiole "35 to "6 in. Cymes axillary, terminal 

 or leaf-opposed, longer than the leaves, pubescent, few-flowered, some- 

 times bearing tendrils. Male flowers '1 in. long, or slightly more, 

 globose-ovoid in bud, on very short pedicels. Calyx cupular, with 5 

 small acute teeth. Corolla little more than twice as long as the calyx, 

 with 5 deep oblong concave teeth with inflexed apices, adpressed-pilose 

 externally and glabrous internally like the calyx. Stamens nearly as 

 long as the corolla ; the filaments short, pilose, the anthers oblong. Rudi- 

 Tfientary ovary ellipsoid, pilose. Drupes elongated-obovoid, compressed, 

 4-angled, obtuse or retuse at the apex, the stigma persistent, m.uch 

 narrowed to the base where the corolla and calyx are persi>tent, minutely 

 cinereous -tomentose, 1*25 in. long, and "5 in. broad; endocarp bony, 

 more or less 8-angled, smooth inside. Seed solitary, compressed. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 380, and perhaps No. 1039. 

 Perak ; Scortechiui, Wray. 



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