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of the connective, the apex with a long flat process, stigma oblouuf, about 

 as long as the anthers. 



Peeak : elevation 3400 feet ; Wraxj 1012. 



20. Argostemma Hookeri, King n. sp. Stem slightly thicker than 

 a crow-quill, decumbent and rooting in its lower part, obscurely 4-angled, 

 6 to 12 in. long, covered with long, soft, pale, flexuose hairs. Leaves 

 thickly membranous, very unequal ; the larger of each pair lanceolate, 

 ovate-lanceolate or oblong, sub-acute or obtuse, somewhat narrowed to 

 the unequal-sided base ; upper sm^ace (when dry) olivaceous, with a 

 few scattered, thick, adpressed, pale hairs near the edges and on 

 the midrib ; the lower pale, glaucous ; the broad midrib and some- 

 what prominent 5 or 6 pairs of curved spreading nerves scurfy 

 and sparsely pubescent ; length '75 to 1*35 in.; breadth "SS to '6 in.; 

 petiole "1 to "2 in. Smaller leaf ovate-lanceolate, cordate, sessile ; stipules 

 like the smaller leaves. Cymes umbellately 2-3-flowered, terminal, 

 solitary, on slender, sparsely pubescent peduncles, about 1"5 in. long, and 

 with a whorl of narrow bracteoles about the middle. Flowers '3 in. 

 long ; their pedicels puberulous and bracteolate at the base. Calyx 

 widely campanulate, tomentose outside, the 5 lobes broadly triangular, 

 spreading, shorter than the tube. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, 

 white, sparsely hairy outside ; the 5 deep lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 

 spreading or reflexed. Anthers lightly cohering by their oxalate edges 

 into an erect cone, lanceolate, the base acute and entire, the apex with a 

 long, flat, minutely bifid appendage. Style filiform, longer than the 

 anthers, stigma clavate. Capsule obconic, very hairy, "15 in. in diam. 

 crowned by erect calyx-lobes. A. parvifolium, Hook. fil. (not of Benn.) 

 PI. Br. Ind. III. 45. 



Penang: Khig's Collector 1747, 1756. Johor: King. 



21. Argostemma bicolor. King n. sp. Whole plant 3 or 4 in. high. 

 Stem erect, simple, as thick as a crow-quill, pubescent. Leaves thickly 

 membranous, very uaequal ; the larger of each pair subsessile, elliptic 

 or oblong, tapering to the sub-acute apex and to the oblique, minutely 

 cordate base ; when dry the upper surface pale-olivaceous and bearing a 

 few adpressed hairs on the midrib and near the margins ; lower surface 

 pale-yellowish, minutely hairy on the midrib and 5 or 6 pairs of spread- 

 ing, little-curved main-nerves; length 1*5 to 2*15 in.; breadth "65 to "85 

 iu . ; smaller leaf only "25 to '3 in. long, ovate, sessile. Stipules broad, 

 rounded, shorter than the smaller leaf. Peduncles axillary or terminal, 

 as long as or longer than the leaves, erect, adpressed-pubescent, bearing 

 a whorl of ovate-lanceolate bracts at or below the middle and another at 

 the base of the terminal 3- to 6-flowered (sometimes branched) umbel. 

 Flower-pedicels '2 to '25 in. long, densely pubescent like the calyx, 



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