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branches slender, glabrous, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves mem- 

 branous, broadly elliptic, shortly cuspidate, entire, rounded or very 

 slightly narrowed at the base ; upper surface shining, darkly 

 ciuei-eous when dry ; the lower pale, cinereous, dull : main nerves 6 or 

 7 pairs, obsolete on the upper, faiul on the lower surface when dry ; 

 length 1'75 to 2*5 in., breadth 1 to 1'35 in. ; petiole "3 to "4 in., slender. 

 Flowers "15 in. in diam., their pedicels about "2 in., in fascicles 

 bf 3 to G on very short axillary tubercles shorter than the 

 petioles. Calyx fleshy, sub-campanulate, deeply divided into 5 broad 

 i-eniform-ovate spreading teeth. Petals sub-erect, twice as long as the 

 cal^'x-lobes, fleshy, very broadly oblong ; the apex obtuse, the base broad 

 and truncate. Disc, cupular, fleshy, entire. Ovary broad, depressed, 3* 

 angled, surrounded by the disc, stigma small; Stamens 3, spreading ; 

 the filaments stout, slightly flattened, recurved over the edge of the disc : 

 anthers small, rounded, 2-celled. Fruit globular, nearly 2 in. in diam^, and 

 bright orange wken ripe, glabrous, the surface much corrugated when 

 dry especially towards the apex ; pedicel very stout, '6 in. long; 



Perak : Wray, No. 2542. 



12; Salacia Kunstleri, King, n. sp. A scandent shrub ; yoiiiig 

 branches cinereous, glabrous, lenticellate, the bark striate when dry. 

 Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, shortly 

 cuspidate, much narrowed to the base, both surfaces glabrous ; the lower 

 bx'own when dry, the transverse reticulations very distinct ; main nerves 

 about 7 pairs, spreading and curving upwards ; length 3'5 to 5"5 in. 

 breadth 175 to 23 in., petiole '15 in. Flowers "IS in. in diam., on thin, 

 pedicels "5 in. loiig, in fascidles of 3 to 6 from very small bracteolate 

 axillary tubercles. G'^lyx small, cupular, spreading, deeply divided into 

 5 concave ovate-orbicular teeth with coarsely ciliate edges. Petals 5, 

 orbicular, spreading, much larger than the calyx-teeth. Disc flat, thin, 

 annular, not toothed; Stamens 3, attached to the inner edge of the disc; 

 the filaments very broad, triangular, recurved, anthers small. Ovary 

 buried in the disc. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : King's Collector, No. 683, (collected only once and probably 

 a rare plant); 



13. Salacia FLAvfiscENS, Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1872, 

 pt. 2, p. 300. A scandent shni'b 40 to 60 feet long: young branches 

 slender, black when dry and with numerou? minute split warts. Leaves 

 opposite, coriaceous, oblong, sub-acute, the edges entire and slightly 

 revolute when dry, the base rounded, almost sessile : botli surfaces, but 

 especially the lower, yellowish when dry ; main nerves 6 to 9 pairs, 

 spreading, interarchiiig far from the edge : length 4 to 7 in., breadth 

 125 to 2o in. ; petiole about "2 in., stout. Flutoers about "15 in. in 



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