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things, viz., H. ohtusifoUa Roxb. and H. Grahamii, Wight ; while H. tor- 

 tnosa, Cat. No. 4216, is a mixture of H. ohtusifoUa, Roxb. and ai 

 n, indica, Willd. To H. Grahamii, Wight, Mr. Lawson (I. c. p. 624) 

 has reduced the plant issued by Waliich as his No. 4214, under the name 

 H. lanceolata, Ham. But in n»y opinion this reduction is wrong. Under 

 72", Arnottiana, Wiglifc, Mr. Lawson proposes to include Salacia terminalis, 

 1'hwaites, which is a tree with cymose panicles on long peduncles much 

 longer than the leaves. 



Doubtful Species. 



HiPPOCRATEA Maingayi, Laws. in Fook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 625, 

 Branches terete. Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate, glabrous, 3 in. long by 

 "75 in. broad. Cymes 3-flowered, racemose. Carpels triquetrous, woody, 

 4 to 5 in. long. Seeds oblong, 3'5 to 45 in. long. 



Malacca: Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 397. Distrib. ? Borneo. 



Known only by Maingay's imperfect descriptions. (The above des- 

 cription is copied from Lawson I. c.) 



11. Salacia, Linn, 



Scandent or sarmentose shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, 

 rarely alternate, petiolate, exstipulate. Flowers few or many, clustered 

 in the axils of tlie leaves or extra-axillary, more rarely in cymes. Calyx 

 small, 5-paited. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 3, rarely 2 or 4, continuous 

 with the disc, recurved. Ovary conical, immersed in the disc, S-celled ; 

 style very short, stiu^ma simple or 3-lobed ; ovules 2-8 in each cell, 

 in 1-2 series, inserted on the inner angle. Fruit baccate, 1-3-celIed, 

 sub-woody or fleshy. Seeds large, angular. — Distrib. Species about 

 130 ; natives of the tropics of both hemispheres. 



Leaves alternate ... ... ... ... 1, 8. viminea. 



Leaves opposite. 



Flowers solitary or in pairs from the leaf-axils, not on 



tubercles... .. ,. ... ... 2. 8. Maingayi. 



Flowers in pednncniate axillary cymes. 



Flowers campanuloid ; the petals erect in their 



lower half, spreading in the npper ... ... 3. 8. cnmpanuloidea. 



Petals spreading fi'om the base. 



Leaves serrate-crenate ... ... ' ... 4, 8. Oriffiithii. 



Leaves entire ... ... ... 5, 8. Perakensis. 



Flowers from short axillary tubercles. 

 Flowers '35 to 45 in. in diam. 

 Leaves 6 to 12 in. long. 



axillary tubercles each bearing 10 or 12 

 flowers ... ... ... ... 6, iSf. Scortechinii. 



axillary tubercles bearing only 3 to 6 



flowers ... ... ... ... 7. S. grandifloru 



var. longifolia, 



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