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2. Salacia Maingati, Laws. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 626. A 

 spandent shrub 6 to 15 feet Jong ; branches rather slender, terete, pale- 

 brown when dry and with minute warts. Leaves coriaceous, ovate, ellip- 

 tic or oblong-elliptic, shortly cuspidate, entire, the base rounded ; both 

 surfiices glabrous, shining ; main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, slightly prominent 

 on the lower; length 2'5 to 4*5 in., breadth 1*25 to 2"25 in., petiole '25 to 

 *3 in. Flowers solitary or in pairs, axillary, not ou tubercles, •45 in, in 

 diam. ; their pedicels stout, about "3 in. long. Calyx fleshy, cupular, with 

 5 short reniform spreading lobes. Petals 5, much larger than the caljx, 

 oblong or oblong-obovate, sub-rotund, obtuse, rather fleshy, concave, 

 glabrous, spreading. Disc very deep, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 3, at- 

 tached to the upper part of the disc ; the filaments short, flattened, 

 tiiangular, recurved and closely applied to the disc; anthers transversely 

 oblong, dehiscing tiansversely. Ovary conical, 3-angleci, sunk in the 

 disc at the base and confluent with it, 3-celled. Style none, stigma 

 with 3 radiating lobes. Fruit unknown. 



Malacca ; Maingay. Perak ; King's Collector Nos. 6689 and 

 7471. 



This resembles S- grandifiora, Kurz, but the flowers are solitary or 

 in pairs from the axils of the leaves, and they are not inserted on tuber- 

 cles ; the petals are also oblong or oblong-obovate. Moi-eover this is 

 scandent, while S. grandifiora is an erect shrub. 



3. Salacia campanuloidea, King, n. sp. A glabrous creeper 

 50 feet long ; young branches 4-anglecl, slender, pale when dry. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, ovate or elliptic-oblong, widest above the middle, the 

 apex obtuse and shortly cuspidate ; the edges pale, thickened and wavy, 

 crenulate in the l(\wer, remotely serrulate in the upper half, slightly 

 narrowed in the lower third to the base ; both surfaces (but especially 

 the lower,) pale and often purplish when dry; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 

 spreading, faint; length 3 to 4*5 in., breadth 1-35 to 2 in., petiole '3 to 

 •4 in. Cymes short, axillary, few-flowered. ^ZoMJe'scampanulate, "15 to 

 •2 in. in diam. at the mouth ; their pedicels about as long as themselves 

 or longer, slender. Cymes solitary, axillary, not longer than the 

 petioles, pedicelled, with numerous bracteoles at the apex where the 

 pedicels are inserted. Calyx flesliy, spreading, deeply divided into 5 

 transversely oblong obtuse suberect lobes. Petals 5, fleshy, broadly 

 obovate-elliptic with broad bases, glaucous (especially externally) erect, 

 spreading at the apex so as to form a campanulate corolla. Disc 

 conical with truncate apex, fleshy, pale. Stamens 3, inserted near the 

 upper edge of the disc ; the filaments flattened, as long as the ovary, 

 at first erect then recurved horizontally across the disc ; anthers large^ 

 transversely oblong, 2-celled. Ovary conical, buried in the disc, style 



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