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length 1*75 to 3-5 in., breadth 1 to 1*5 in., petiole -15 to -25 in. Flowers 

 '25 in. in diam., 3 to 6 from small tubercles ill the axils of the leaves 

 ©r from the smaller branches below the leaves ; their pedicels slender, 

 about '25 to '35 in. long. Culyx capillar, wibli 5 i^onuded concave lobes. 

 Petals much larger than the calyx-lobes, broadly cordate, obtuse, often 

 clawed at the base, the edges membranous. Disc broad, fleshy, convesf. 

 Stamens 3, from the upper edge of the disc ; the filaments flat but not 

 broad, erect : anthers small, transversely oblong, 2-celled. Ovary small, 

 conical, 3-angled, buried in the disc. Fruit ovoid-globular, -5 in. iij 

 diam., 1-celIed, 1-seeded. Blume Bijdr. 221 ; Wall. Cat. 4-219 : W. and 

 A. Prod. 105 : Dalz. and Gribs. Fl. Bomb. 33 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, 

 1,260: Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p, 697; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 626. S. podopetala, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, 1, 581. 84 

 Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 4221. Johnia coromamleliana, Roxb. Fl. lodi 

 I, 169 ; DC. Prod. I, 571, Tonsella prinoides, Willd. in Act. Acad. Cur. 

 Ber. IV, 184. 



In all the provinces. — Uistrib : British India, Cejlon, the Malat 

 Ai'chipelago, Philippines. 



Var. macrophyUa, leaves broadly elliptic, acuminate, much narrowed 

 At the base, 4 to 5 in. long, and 1'75 to 275 in. brdad. 8. mdcrophyllai 

 Bl. Bijdr. 221. 



Perak: King's Collector^ 7552; Wray^ No. 2l33. Distrib.— Jav^; 



10. Salacia poltantha, Korth. in Flora XXXI for 1848, p. J^79. 

 Scaudent, glabrous ; young bi-anches dai-k-coloured vvhen dry, minute- 

 ly warted. Leaves corijiceous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, the apex 

 shoi'tly and obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate, the edo-es with 

 remote shallow serrations ; the upper surface shining when dry and 

 Bub-olivaceous, the lower dull brown ; lengtli 35 to 4'5 in., breadth 1-25 

 to 2 in., petiole "35 in. Flowers about '25 in. in diam., on slender 

 pedicels "5 to '65 in. long, crowded on very short bracteolate axillary 

 tubercles. Cali/x flat, flesliy, with 5 rotund slightly imbricate lobea. 

 Petals 5, much larger than the calyx-lobes, broadly elliptic, obtuse, con- 

 cave, spreading. Disc very convex, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 3, insert- 

 ed near the upper edge of the disc : filaments flat but not very broad 

 short, sub-recurved ; anthers small, transversely oblong. Fruit un- 

 known. 



Tongkah: Curtis, No. 2917. Kedah : Curtis, No. 2574. Distrib.— 

 Borneo. 



Mr. Curtis describes his Tongkah plant as a climbing shrub and 

 his Kedali plant as a tree ; but I cannot find any difference in their 

 flowers or leaves. 



11. Salacia Wrayi, King, n. sp. A stout climber ; young 



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