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broadly oblanceolate, shortly acuminate, cuneate and sometimes slightly 

 unequal at the base ; upper surface dark-brown with sparse, coarse, 

 glandular, bulbous hairs, the midrib and main-nerves obscure ; lower 

 surface paler, with many glaadular hairs on the bold midrib and slightly 

 prominent 7 or 8 pairs of spreading, slightly curved main-nerves ; the 

 interspaces with a few similar hairs, minutely papillose ; length of larger 

 leaf of the pair 3 or 4 in. ; of the smaller 2 to 2*5 in, ; breadth of the 

 larger 17 to 2 in. ; of the smaller '9 to 1"2 in. ; petioles from '3 to "7 in.? 

 glandular-pubescent. Cyme umbellate, terminal, solitary, 10- to 12- 

 flowered, pedunculate ; the peduncle 4-angled, scurfy like the stem and 

 also glandular-hairy. Flowers on deciduously hairy pedicels, "3 to '4 in. 

 long, bracteolate at the base. Calyx globular-campanulate, densely 

 glandular-hairy outside ; the teeth short, erect, acute, fleshy, glabrous 

 inside; disk large tumid. Corolla unknown. Capsule globulai*, crowned, 

 by the small erect calyx-teeth and the disk hairy at first, but becoming 

 glabrous; 2-celled, the placentas axile. Seeds numerous, triangular, 

 pitted, black. 



Perak : Scortechini. 



Thia appears to be the same species as oue of Beccari'a Sumatra planfca (Herb. 

 Becc. Argostemma 33). 



8. Argostemma. Ridleti, King n. sp. Stem decumbent or pros- 

 trate rooting in its lower half, about as thick as a crow-quill, 6 or 8 in. 

 long, 4-angled, softly rusty-pubescent. Leaves in each pair slightly un- 

 equal, membranous, narrowly oval or oval -oblong, acute, the base 

 cuneate ; upper surface darkly olivaceous, densely and coarsely pubes- 

 cent on the midrib and nerves and with some scattered hairs on the 

 spaces between ; lower surface paler, the pubescence on the midrib and 

 5 or 6 pairs of main-nerves not so coarse as on the upper, the reticula- 

 tions with a single row of hairs, the areolse glabrous, but with minute 

 white scales; length -8 to 1"S in. ; breadth '4 to '8 in. ; petioles "15 to '6 

 in., densely and coarsely pubescent. Stipules lanceolate to broadly ovate, 

 their apices acute and bifid, about '2 in. long. Cyme terminal, solitary, 

 pedunculate, longer than the leaves, umbellately 2-3-flowered; rusty- 

 pubescent in all its parts ; peduncle "75 to 1'5 in. long, bearing a whorl 

 of bracteoles about the middle and another at the base of the pedicels. 

 Flowers "4 in. long, their pedicels much longer. Calyx campanulate with 

 5 broad spreading ovate-acute lobes slightly longer than the tube. 

 Corolla unknown. Capstdes obconic, crowned by the prominent calyx- 

 teeth, "15 in. in diam., pubescent. Seeds numerous, small. 



Malacca: Ridley 101 10. 



9. Argostemma unipolium, Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 94. Rhizome 

 short, fleshy; whole plant glabrous, succulent, 6 to 8 in. high. Stem 



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