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nerves 10 to 12 pairs, curved, spreading, very prominent beneath; length 

 •6 to -8 in. ; breadth 2-5 to 3-25 in. ; petioles -5 to '75 in. stout. Floivers 

 in pedunculate trichotomous axillary compound umbels, the common 

 peduncle 1 to 1'25 in. long, rusty-puberulous ; the secondary umbels on 

 short peduncles 6- to 8-flowered, with broadly ovate hirsute deciduous 

 bracteoles at their bases. Flowers -25 in. long, on rusty-pubescent pedicels 

 shorter than themselves. Calyx cupular ; its mouth truncate, undulate. 

 Corolla as long as the calyx ; its 4 lobes broad, blunt, puberulous out- 

 side, hirsute inside. Frtdt unknown. 



JOHOR: Bidley 4084, 7441; ScortecMni. Selangor: Ridley 7441, 

 7436,8540. Fasa^g: Bidley U180. 



8. Urophyllum potatorum. King n, sp. A small tree ; all parts 

 except the flowers glabrous ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, 

 terete, pale-brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous,'elliptic-oblong, caudate- 

 acuminate, the base cuneate, both surfaces brown tinged with olivaceous 

 when dry, dull ; main-nerves 5 to 9 pairs prominent like the midrib on 

 the lower surface and. depressed on the upper, veins faint on both ; 

 length 4 to 8 in.; breadth 1-25 tol"75 in.; petiole '2 to '25 in. stout ; 

 stipules ovate, much acuminate. Cymes axillary, longer than the petioles, 

 8- to 10-flowered. Flowers crowded, puberulous externally. Calyx 

 sessile, cylindric, the limb obscurely toothed, '2 in. long. Corolla longer 

 than the caljx ; the 4 lobes oblong, blunt, reflexed. Frtiit unknown. 



Malacca : on Mount Ophir. Hullett 104 ; Wray 756. Perak : 

 Eing^s Collector 3211. 



The flowers in the only three specimens which I have seen are in bad condition, 

 but they appear to be those of Urophyllmn. According to Mr. Wray's field note, the 

 flower is whitish-green and the fruit is orange or yellow when ripe. The leaves of 

 the plant are used by the Malays to make a decoction which they drink as a beverage 

 that appears to have some of the physiological effects of tea. 



Note. — In addition to the foregoing species from the Malay Peninsula we take 

 this opportunity of describing the following very distinct species which hns hitherto 

 been collected only in the Andaman Islands. 



Urophyllum andamanicum, King & Gamble n. sp. Young branches brown, 

 thinner than a goose-quill, glabrous but for a very few scattered hairs near the 

 nodes. Leaves oblanceolate, shortly and rather abruptly aearainate, narrowed from 

 above the middle to the short petiole; upper surface pale olivaceous when dry, 

 glabrous; the lower paler, glabrous, except the rusty adpressed-pilose midrib and 

 nerves, transversely reticulate; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, ascending, very slightly 

 curved; length 5 to 7'5 in.; breadth 1*5 to 2-25 in. ; petiole "25 to '35 in. Stipules 

 lanceolate, much acuminate, densely rusty-pilose on the lower surface. Cymes 1 to 

 3 in a leaf-axile, on slender peduncles much longer than the petioles, densely 

 umbellate, many-flowered, the flowers on coarsely rusty-pnbescent pedicels, mostly 

 longer than themselves. Floivers '15 in. long. Calyx deeply cupular, pubescent 

 outside like the pedicels ; the mouth truncate and usually entire, sometimes minutely 

 toothed. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, glabrous except the densely pilose 



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