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Wall. & Carey II. 517; W. & A. Prod. Fl. Pen. Tnd. 424; Blume 

 Bijdr. 968 ; DC. Prod. IV. 471 ; Griff. Notul. IV. 267 ; Ic. PI. Asiat., 

 t, 479, f. 3; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 258; Miq. in Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. 

 IV. 254; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 195. 



Perak : King's Collector 1125, 4916, 7560 ; ScortecUni 263. Pahang : 

 Bidley-l^hQ. Penang : Curtis 24:. Malacca: Griffith. — Distrib. British 

 India, Malay Archipelago, Andaman Islands. 



2. Paederia veiiticellata, Blame Bijdr. 968. Glabrous except 

 the lower surfaces of the leaves; branches thinner than a goose-quill, 

 dark and slightly and bluntly 4-angled when dry. Leaves coriaceous, 

 usually opposite but sometimes in whorls of three, lanceolate, ovate- 

 lanceolate or elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate; both surfaces 

 brown when dry, dull, the upper always glabrous, the lower often 

 pubescent, the reticulations on the lower side rather distinct and trans- 

 verse; main-nerves 6 or -7 pairs, curving, oblique, rather prominent on 

 the lower surface; length 25 to 4 in.; breadth 1 to 1*75 in.; petioles 1 

 to 175 in. ; stipules broadly triangular, short, very deciduous. Flowers 

 '6 in long, funnel-shaped, shortly pedicellate in lax pedunculate branch- 

 ing cymes arranged in pairs or whorls of three in long narrow panicles, 

 bracteoles minute. Panicles from 3 to 18 in. long, often bearing petio- 

 late narrowly oblong leaf -like bracts "5 in. long ; branches from '75 to 

 3 in. long, diverging, opposite or in whorls of three. Calyx less than 

 •1 in. long, glabrous or puberulous, narrowly funnel-shaped, the mouth 

 dilated and with 4 small triangular teeth or sub-truncate. Corolla 

 tubular, constricted at the base, "6 in. long; the teeth less than '1 in. 

 long, acute, erect. Anthers linear-oblong, apiculate, included in the 

 corolla; their filaments nearly as long as themselves, dorsi-fixed. Fruit 

 much compressed, orbicular, '4 to "5 in. across, with 5 curved vertical 

 veins on each side; pyrenes as in P. foetida. DC. Prod. IV. 471 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 259; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 195; Ann. Mus 

 Lugd. Bat. IV. 255. 



Selangor: Bidley 74il6. Malacca: Maingay {K-B.) 885. Perak 

 ScortecUni 446, 1573; Wray 3042; King's Collector 3177, 3736, 4457 

 4780, 5316, 5410, 10613; Curtis 3182, 3340. Singapore: Bidley 2835 

 3647, 6469.— Distrib. Borneo. 



3. Paederia tomentosa, Blume Bijdr. var. glabra, Kurz. Gla 

 brous or sparsely pubescent ; branches slightly thicker than a crow-quill 

 compressed and brown when dry. Leaves membranous, ovate to Ian 

 ceolate ; apex acute, base rounded or cuneate : both surfaces brown when 

 dry, the lower paler and minutely reticulate, pubescent in the nerve axils 

 length 2*25 to 4 in.; breadth '85 to 1*5 in.; petioles "25 to 1 in.; stipules 

 not connate, triangular, acuminate, less than '1 in. long. Panicles as 



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