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shorter, and more obovate in bud; fruit as in W. longifolia. Ixora 

 grandifolia, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6134. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2796; Maingay (KD.) 854. Singapore ; 

 Wallich; Ridley 1800, 3764, 10411, 10852. Perak: Wray 3001, 3377: 

 Ridley 5557; King's GoUector 763. JoHORE : Ridley, 11167. 



7. Webera longifolia. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. Ill, 105. A shrub, 

 young branches thinner than a goose-quill, obtusely 4-angled, decida- 

 ously rusty-puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblanceolate, elliptic- 

 oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, narrowed from tlie 

 middle or above it to the short petiole ; both surfaces drying olivaceous- 

 brown ; the upper glabrous and shining, the lower deciduously cinereous- 

 puberulous, main-nerves 8 to 16 pairs, spreading, slightly prominent 

 on the lower surface, faint on the upper, length 6 to 12 in.: breadth 2 to 

 3 in.: petiole '4 to 1 in.; stipules ovate, much acuminate, hairy, about 

 •3 in. long. Cymes erect, terminal, paniculate, trichotomous, on rusty- 

 pubescent obtusely 4-angled peduncles several inches (sometimes 9 or 10) 

 in length : ultimate branchlets crowded : the flower-pedicels each with 

 2 linear bracteoles.at its base. Calyx '15 in. long, narrowly carapanu- 

 late, divided into 5 deep linear hairy lobes as long as the tube. 

 Corolla pubescent, about '65 in. long ; the tube cylindric, more than 

 twice as long as the oblong obtuse lobes. Style exserted. Ovary 2- 

 celled, each cell with one ovule. Fruit globular, glabrous, 4 in. in diam. 

 (when dry), crowned by the long linear calyx-lobes. Ixora longifolia^ 

 G. Don. Gen. Syst. Ill, 573. /. macrophylla Br. in Wall. Cat. 6165 (not 

 of Bartl.). Pavetta longifolia, Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat. II, 275. 



Penang: Wallich, Phillips ; Ridley, 9S95; Curtis 94^7, 114:4: Perak: 

 King's Collector, 2137,3825, 6220, 6632, 10662; TFra?/, 2081, 2864, 2885; 

 Scortechini, 228 ; Ridley, 2920. Johore : Ridley, 11166. 



8. Webera Wrati King, n. sp. Glabrous, except the inflorescence : 

 young branches 4-angled, thinner than a goose-quill. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, large, oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate, cuneate at the base ; 

 both surfaces blackish-olivaceous when dry, shining, the midrib con- 

 Bpicuous on both, channelled on the upper ; main-nerves 16 to 18 pairs, 

 spreading, sub-horizontal, faintly visible on both surfaces ; length 9 to 

 11 in. long; breadth 2-5 to 3*5 in.; petiole '5 in. long, narrowly winged 

 above. Cymes terminal, umbellately panicled, about 1*25 in. long and 

 broad ; the branches few, pubescent, slender, angled, few-flowered, the 

 bracteoles minute : pedicels shorter than the calyx, pubescent, bracteo- 

 late. Calyx "15 in. long, narrowly campanulate, the teeth linear-lanceo- 

 late, pubescent, erect, longer than the tube. Corolla narrowly funnel- 

 shaped, puberulous outside, '35 in. long : lobes linear-oblong, blunt, about 

 a third of the length of the tube. Stigma narrowly clavate, exserted, 



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