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di'am., in axillary clusters of 2 or 3 or on very short woody tubercles ; 

 pedicels rather longer than the flowers. Gah/x of 5 broadly ovate acute 

 concav3 sepals sometimes with coarsely ciliate edges, otiierwise glal)rous. 

 Petals twice as long as the sepals, bioadly elliptic, glabrous, tlie inner 

 two sometimes with two imperfect transverse thickened bands on the 

 upper surface. Disc with saucer-like wavy lower rim, the upper part 

 fleshy and confluent with the ovary. Stamens 3, inserted on the disc ; 

 the filaments broadly triangular, embracing the ovary ; anthers small, 

 transversely elongated, 2-celled. Ovary immersed in the disc, conical, 

 3-angled, glabrous, the style protruding, the stigma small. Fruit 

 globular, glabrous, 15 to 2 in. in diam. Seeds sevend. Kurz For. Flora 

 Burma. I, 260 : Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 627. Microtropis 

 coriacea. Wall. Cat. 4838. M. lonnfoUa, Wall. Cat. 4339 (in part). 

 Xanthochymus ovalifolius, Wall, (not of Roxb, ) Cat. 4839 B. 



Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 404/2. Perak : King's 

 Collector, Scortechini, Curtis. Penang : Wallich, Curtis, No. 12. 

 Kedah : Curtis, No. 2653. Distrib. — Tenasserim, Heifer (Kew Distrib.) 

 No. 897. 



Var. dumosa : a small erect shrub ; flowers brick-red. 



Perak : Scortechini, No. 505, 1734 : King's Collector, No. 10948. 

 Kedah : Curtis, No. 2654. 



I think it probable that better acquaintance with this shrubby 

 non-scandent variety will prove it to be quite as well entitled to specific 

 rank as many members of this genus. 



14. Salacia Lawsonc, King. A scandent shrub with smooth prui- 

 nose branches, becoming black when dry. Leaves sub-coriaceous, elliptic, 

 obtuse, entire, the base rounded ; both surfaces glabrous, pale yellow- 

 ish-brown when dry, reticulate, shining : main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, 

 faint ; length 25 to 5 in., breadth l'5to 3 in., petiole "2 to '35 in. 

 Floioers "1 in. in diara., 3 to 6 from small axillary bracteolate tubercles ; 

 their pedicels slender, "25 to "3 in. long. Calyx of 5 ovoid-deltoid 

 thick sepals. Petals 5, larger than the sepals, broadly ovoid, obtuse. 

 Disc convex, fleshy. Stamens 3, inserted on the upper edge of the disc ; 

 filaments flat, broadly triangular ; anthers small, broader than long. 

 Fruit unknown. 8. ovalis, Lawson (not of Korth.) in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. I, 627. 



Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 400. 



A species with leaves like those of S. flavescens, Kurz, but wich 

 much smaller flowers : collected only by Maingay. I have been obliged 

 to change the name of this, as there is an earlier S. ovalis published by 

 Korthals in 1848 (Flora, XXXI, 579) ; whereas Mr. Lawson's name 

 dates from 1875. 



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