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olivaceous-brown, not reticulate; the lower rather darker faintly- 

 reticulate ; main.nerves 8 to 10 pairs, spreading, faint on both surfaces ; 

 length 25 to 5 in. ; breadth '75 to 1*5 in. ; petiole "1 to '2 in., stipules 

 about one-third of the length of the leaves. Bacemes more than 1 in. 

 long, but shorter than the leaves, slender, glabrous, Floioers '25 in. 

 long, with several bracteoles at their bases. Calyx funnel-shaped, the 

 limb with 4 broad triangular lobes. Corolla salver-shaped, glabrous 

 except the villous throat; the mouth with 4 broadly oblong obtuse 

 reflexed lobes. Anthers partly exserted from the throat. Style with 

 two thick hairy arms. Frtiit elliptic to ovoid, 2 to "25 in. long, glabrous, 

 surmounted by the small calyx-limb ; the pedicels very short. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. III. 120. P. onicrocarpa, DC. Prod. IV. 399. P. variahilis, 

 Hassk. in Flora 1845, 232. Higginsia microcarpa, Blume Bijdr. 988. 

 Spicillaria Leschenatdtii, A. Rich, in Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris V. 

 252. Bandia racemosa and E. polysperma, Roxb. Hort, Beng. 15; Fl. 

 Br, Ind. I. 625, 527. B. polysperma, DC. I.e. 389. Hypohathrum race- 

 mosum, Kurz. For. Fl. Burm, II. 51. Buhiacea, Wall. Cat. 8302, 83J2. 



Perak: Curtis 3143 (in part); King's Collector 1385, 2900; 

 Scortechini 335, 1093. Penanci : Curtis 3387. Pangkor: Curtis 1387. 

 Singapore: Bidley 1990. Malacca: Gri^th, Bidley 230. Selangor: 

 Bidley 3187.— DiSTEiB. Northern India; Burma; Java; Sumatra; 

 Borneo. 



Var. floribunda. Racemes longer than the leaves, flowers very 

 numerous ; a tree. 



FEEkK I King's Collector 10023. 3 oeor: Bidley lllb7. Selangor; 

 Bidley 3187. 



It is probable that this should rank as a species. 



3. Petunga venulosa, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 121, All parts 

 glabrous; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, somewhat com- 

 pressed, shining, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic- 

 oblong, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, cuneate or rounded 

 and sometimes slightly oblique at the base ; both surfaces warm-brown 

 when dry ; main-nerves 6 or 7 pairs, slightly curved, ascending, thin 

 but prominent on the lower surface like the midrib, and depressed 

 on the upper; length 3 to 6 in. ; breadth 1'5 to 8 in. ; petioles "2 

 to "3 in. ; stipules triangular, acuminate, keeled, as long as the petioles. 

 Bacemes at first only about 1 in. long, afterwards much longer. Flowers 

 •35 in. long, on short pedicels with one or two ovate-acute bracteoles 

 at their bases. Calyx less than 'I in. long, campanulate, the mouth 

 with 4 broad blunt lobes hairy at the edge. Corolla 3 in. long, funnel- 

 shaped, the throat densely pubescent, otherwise glabrous, the limb 



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