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than a crow-quill, glabrous. Leaves thickly membranous, oblon g- ovate ; 

 slightly cordate at the base, the apex sub-acute, the edges slightly 

 waYed ; both surfaces glabrous, pale olivaceous-brown, the reticulations, 

 midrib, and 3 to 5 pairs of ascending main-nerves prominent; length 1-75 

 to 3 in.; breadth '76 to 15 in.; petiole 1 to 2'5 in.; puberulous. Stipules 

 lanceolate, 1 in. long. Peduncle terminal, slender, '75 to 3 in. long, com- 

 pressed, bearing an umbel of 6 to 9 flowers with an involucre of linear 

 blunt bracts at its base. Flowers "6 in. long, on glabrous pedicels much 

 shorter than themselves. Galyx-tuhe "25 in. long ; its lobes longer, ob- 

 long, obtuse. Gorolla-tube about '25 in. long, its lobes shorter, oblong, 

 blunt. Stamens included. Fruit fleshy, broadly ovoid, black when ripe, 

 shining, "35 in. in diam. and (including the persistent calyx-teeth) 

 slightly longer; pyrenes "25 in. long, plano-concave with a ridge on each 

 aide. 



Perak: Scortechini 129; King's Collector 10184 MALACCA: Bid- 

 ley 1608. Selangor : Ridley 8569. 



5. Geophila Scojbtechinii, King, n. sp. Stem prostrate, rather 

 thicker than a crow-quill, obscurely 4-angled, 1 or 2 feet long ; the 

 branches short, erect. Leaves sub-fleshy, ovate or ovate-elliptic, base 

 narrowed or rounded ; both surfaces with sparse very minute white 

 adpressed hairs ; upper (when dry) pale-brown, the nerves indistinct ; 

 lower yellowish, the midrib and the 3 or 4 pairs of much curved ascend- 

 ing nerves slightly prominent; length 1 to 15 in.; breadth *6 to "9 in.; 

 petioles '35 to "75 in. Peduncles terminal, about as long as the leaves, 

 slender, compressed, bracteote, dichotomous near the apex and bearing 

 two small linear bracts at each bifurcation. Flowers few, on short brae- 

 teolate pedicels, "6 in. long (to the end of the long style). Calyx with 

 a long narrow tube, and 5 long linear acuminate lobes puberulous out- 

 side. Style very long, filiform. 



Perak : Scortechini. 



Cephaelis, Swartz. 



Undershrubs or perennial herbs, usually erect. Leaves oblanceo- 

 late, obovate or oblong ; stipules usually solitary, connate at the base 

 (in the Malayan species) Flotvers in involucrate heads. Calyx with 

 a funnel-shaped tube and (in the Malayan species) an entire persistent 

 limb. Corolla funnel-shaped or salver-shaped, its throat naked or 

 hairy ; lobes of the limb 4 or 5, erect or spreading, valvate. Stamens 

 4 or 5, inserted in the mouth of the corolla-tube, usually shortly ex- 

 serted. Anthers oblong or linear, dorsifixed. Ovary 2-celled (rarely 3- or 

 4-celled. Style long or short. Ovules 1 in each cell, basal, erect. Fruit 

 dry or fleshy, of two plano-convex pyrenes. Seeds plano-convex, their 



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