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cuneate ; both surfaces olivaceous when dry ; the upper dark and shin- 

 ing ; the lower paler, much reticulate, and dull; main-nerves 15 to 20 

 pairs, spi'eading, curved, prominent on the lower surface; length 4 to 7 

 in.; breadth 1*25 to 2*5 in.; petioles "S to "5 in.; stipules triangular 

 with broad bases and long linear points. Cyme corymbose, with many 

 short spreading brauchlets, sometimes laxly trichotomous, 2*5 to 5 in. 

 across, terminal, on a slender erect peduncle 1 or 2 in. long. Flowers 

 as in I. pendtcla, but smaller, the limb of the corolla being only '3 in. 

 across. Fniit as in /. pendula, Jack. G. Don, Gen. Syst. Gard. III. 573. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 147. Pavetta opaca, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 270. 



Malacca : Ridley 966. Prnang : Curtis 3385. Perak : Wray 3447 : 

 King's Collector 2699, 2805, 2829, 2917,4061; Bidley 3071.— Distrib. 

 Burma, Sumatra. 



A species closely allied to I. pendula, Jack, but the cymes have shorter pedan- 

 cles and the leaves are narrower. 



11. IxoRA LoBBii, Loudon, Encycl. Snpplem. II, 1543. A shrub, 

 everywhere glabrous except the smaller branches of the inflorescence 

 and the calyces ; youngest branches as thick as a duck's quill, dark- 

 coloured, shining. Leaves thinly membranous, oblong, oblong-lanceolate 

 or elliptic-oblong, rarely oblanceolate, the apex acute or shortly acumi. 

 hate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces rather pale-brown when dry and 

 shining ; main-nerves 15 to 25 pairs, rather straight, spreading, inter- 

 arching at the tips, slender but distinct on the lower surface, very 

 faint on the upper; length 5 to 8 in.; breadth 1-25 to 2 in.; petioles 

 •2 to '3 in.; stipules triangular, acuminate, about '15 in. long. Cymes 

 terminal, corymbose, shortly pedunculate, 3 to 8 in. across? the bracts 

 and bracteoles minute, lanceolate, deciduous. Calyx cylindric-campanu- 

 late, less than '1 in. long, its 4 broad blunt lobes shorter than the tube. 

 Corolla-tube slender, cylindric ; 1 to 1*75 in. long ; the limb '4 to '5 in. 

 across ; its 4 lobes narrowly oblong, blunt or sub-acute, spreading ; 

 stigma slender, slightly exserted. Fruit ellipsoid, blunt, -25 to "3 in. 

 long and "25 to "3 in. in diam. (when dry), smooth. I. fulgens, Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. (not of Roxb. ) in part. Pavetta Lobhii, Teysm. & Binn. 

 in Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV. 194. 



Malayan Aechipelago; Heifer (K.D.) 2998. Malacca: Grjffith 

 (K.D.) 2985; Maingay (K.D.) 845; Berry 10, 966; Cuming 2396 

 Penang : Curtis 479 ; Lohh. Welleslet : Ridley 6991. Perak : Wray 476, 

 952, 2891, 3449; King's Collector 407, 2374, 2908, 3828, 4196, 5626, 

 5968 ; Scortechini 96, 349. Singapore : Lobb ; King ; Ridley^ Anderson 

 94. Kedah : Curtis 2659. — Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



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