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the minutely and acutely 6-tootlied mouth, puberulous outside, "25 in. 

 long. Corolla salver-shaped, about 3 times as long as the calyx ; the 

 tube narrow ; the limb with 5 rather blunt oblong lobes twisted in bud. 

 Stamens 5 linear, notched at the apex, included in the tube and 

 slightly longer than its lobes. Style half as long as the corolla, slender, 

 the stigmatic lobes thick, reflexed. Fi-uit like a pepper-corn, glabrous, 

 surmounted by the scar of the deciduous calyx, many-seeded. 



Penang: Ciirtis 818. Singapore: Ridley 3664, 6662. Perak: 

 Scortechini 1308 ; King's Collector 8273, 10001. — Distrib. Lampongs, 

 Sumatra, Forbes 1659 ; Andaman Islands, King's Collector. 



6. Randia Curtisii, King & Gamble n. sp. A large climber, all 

 parts except the calyx and flower-pedicels glabrous ; young branches 

 thinner than a goose-quill, pale-brown when dry, armed ; the 

 spines in pairs, recurved. Leaves varying much in size, coriaceous, 

 oblong-elliptic, acute or shortly acuminate, the base cuneate, up- 

 per surface brown when dry, the lower pale olivaceous ; main- 

 nerves 6 to 11 pairs, rather straight, curving upwards and inter- 

 arching rather far from the edge, very bold on the lower surface, 

 somewhat depressed on the upper, as is the midrib ; reticulations 

 wide, obsolete on the upper surface, rather prominent on the lower ; 

 length 4*5 to 7 in. ; breadth 15 to 2'25 in. ; petioles "3 to "5 in. ; 

 stipules triangular, acuminate, shorter than the petioles, deciduous. 

 Cymes from the axils of fallen leaves or terminal, shortly pedunculate, 

 spreading, from 1 to 2 in. long, branching from the base ; branches 

 spreading and bearing many boat-shaped minute ovate-acute glabrous 

 bracts; the large cymes 1"5 to 2 in. in diam. and many -flowered, the small- 

 er little-branched and few-flowered. Flowers '7b to 1 in. long, on pubes- 

 cent pedicels "1 to '4 in. long. Calyx narrowly tubular-campanulate, ad- 

 pressed-pubescent outside ; the mouth with 5 triangular acute teeth. 

 Corolla white, salver-shaped, glabrous outside, tube narrow ; limb with 

 5 oblong-elliptio, blunt or acute spreading lobes ; throat and tube inside 

 pubescent. Anthers exserted, linear, about as long as the corolla-lobes. 

 Style stout ; stigma clavate, 2-lobed. 



Penang: Curtis 3590. Perak: Wray 26l\ ; King's Collector 3S05, 

 4882, 6507, 6814, 8480. 



7. Randia densiplora, Benth. Flora Hongkong 155. A glabrous 

 tree, often as high as 60 feet ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, 

 pale-brown, 4-angled. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-obloiig to oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, acute or subacute, rarely acuminate, the base cuneate ; both 

 surfaces brown when dry, tinged with olivaceous, the lower usually 

 paler; main-neives 8 or 9 pairs, i-ather straight, ascending, thin but 

 prominent on the lower surface, slightly depressed on the upper ; length 



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