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testa membranous, albumen horny. Embryo small, basal, the cotyledons 

 leafy. — Distrib. Species about 70, all tropical. 



Stipules coriaceous, their bases coriaceous aiid leaving bold scars on the stem : — 



Capitnla sessile, 1 to 3 in. across ; leaves 3 to 5 in. broad ; 



stipules broadly ovate, 8 in. long ... ... 1. G, Griffithii. 



Oapitula pedunculate, '75 to 1 in. across; leaves '5 to 3 5 



in. broad ; stipules coriaceous, broadly ovate with dis- 



coloui-ed edges, '1 to '5 in. long ... ... 2. 0. cuneata. 



Stipules not coriaceous, leaving no scars on the stem ... 3. G, Midleyi. 



1. Cephaelis Grifeithii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 178. Young 

 branches thicker than a sw^an-quill, lenticellate. Leaves membranous, 

 oblong-oblanceolate, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, gradually 

 narrowed from above the middle into the long slightly winged petiole, 

 both surfaces glabrous, brown when dry, the lower the paler ; main- 

 nerves 12 to 20 pairs, curving upwards, prominent like the midrib on the 

 lovfer surface, rather faint on the upper surface when dry ; length 10 

 to 16 in. ; breadth 3 to 5 in. ; petioles 2*5 to 3 in. Stipules coriaceous, 

 sub-orbicular, their apices sub-acute, '8 in. long, the margins entire, 

 thin, and discoloured. Capituhim sub-globular, from 1 to 2 in. in 

 diam., sessile or shortly stalked, bearing numerous orbicular bratcs 

 like the stipules, but smaller. Floivers '75 in. long, on short pedicels. 

 Calyx '15 in. long, the tube narrow- cylindric ; the mouth abruptly 

 campanulate, entire, truncate. Corolla funnel-shaped, "65 in. long, 

 mouth with 5 ovate-acute reflexed lobes. Fruit "35 in. long, compressed, 

 slightly grooved along the edges, with a broad dorsal rib on each side, 

 crowned by the calyx-limb. Seed thin. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3032; Maingay (K.D.) 928. Negri Sem- 

 BiLAN: Tiidley 10109. Perak: King's Collector 746, 2534, 6251, 6399, 

 10782; Wray 1197, 1338, 3027; Bidley 9755; Scortechini.—BiB'xmQ. 

 Sumatra: Forbes, 2511. 



Diflfers from G. cuneata in the longer and sessile capitulum and somewhat 

 larger leaves and stipules. 



2. Cephaelis cuneata, Korth, in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 248. A 

 shrub ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, glabrous, the nodes 

 sometimes close together and always marked by the pale coriaceous 

 bases of the deciduous stipules. Leaves thickly membranous, oblanceo- 

 late or elliptic-oblanceolate, gradually narrowed from above the middle 

 into the slightly winged petiole; both surfaces glabrous, olivaceous 

 when dry, the lower tlie paler; main-nerves 10 to 18 pairs, curved, 

 spreading and ascending, indistinct on the upper surface when dry but 

 distinct on the lower, the midrib broad ; length from 5 to 10 in, ; breadth 

 1 to 2-5 in.; petioles narrowly winged, 5 to 1-5 in. long. Stipules 



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