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abruptly rounded at base, 5 to 5'5 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad, much 

 less pilose, main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs ; seeds 1 to 2, testa crustaceous. 



Penang : Curtis 2787. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 998. Johore : 

 at Gunong Palai, 1,400 feet, G. King. 



3. Jasminum Maingayi, Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. III. 594 (1882). 

 A climbing shrub; branchlets light brown, terete, internodes somewhat 

 elongate, innovations and inflorescence tawny-pubescent. Leaves char- 

 taceous ; ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate and often mucronate at 

 apex, rounded or attenuate or cuneate at base ; glabrous on both 

 surfaces ; margins recurved ; 3 to 6 in. long, 2 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib 

 stout ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, arching upwards to join in a looped 

 intramarginal nerve about -2 in. from the margin ; secondary nerves 

 few ; reticulations distant, obscure ; all nerves strongly impressed above 

 and raised beneath ; petiole "5 to "7 in. long, articulate in the middle, 

 twisted, the bases of each pair connected by a raised nodal line. 

 Flowers in terminal or axillary, paniculate, tawny-pubescent, trichoto- 

 mous cymes, 1*5 to 2 in. long, sessile or peduncled ; bracts oblong or 

 spathulate, leafy ; bracteoles linear, about -25 in. long or less ; pedicels 

 blueish, -15 in. long; flowers white, sometimes slightly tinged with 

 pink. Calyx-tube campanulate, '07 to "1 in. long ; teeth 6, linear- 

 subulate, "325 in. long. Corolla-tube slender,-5 to "7 in. long, glabrous ; 

 lobes 8 to 10, spreading, rotate, oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, "4 in. 

 long, with prominent nerves. Stamens included in the corolla-tube ; 

 filaments slender, appressed to the tube ; anthers oblong, mucronate, 

 •15 in. long, connective broad. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous ; style 

 slender, -4 to -5 in. long ; stigma clavate. Fruit of one carpel, oblong, 

 •5 in. long, "3 in. broad, exocarp thin shining, endocarp fibrous. Seeds 

 2, testa thin. Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 7823. 



Penang: Maingay (K.D.) 1000; Curtis 643. Peeak : ScortecJiini 

 139, 304 ; Curtis 2032 ; King's Collector 2761, 2762, 3975.— Distkib. 

 Borneo {Haviland & Hose 911). 



Vae. hedahensis, King & Gamble. Branchlets and inflorescence 

 thickly rusty-pubescent. Leaves more ovate, rounded at base, nerves 

 fewer, rarely 3 to 4 pairs, the two lower pairs very strong. Drupe 

 nearly globose. 



Kedah : Bidley 5535. 



A well-marked variety which may prove, when better known, to be a species. 



4. Jasminum Wrayi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender climbing^ 

 shrub; branchlets pale brown, slender, terete. Leaves membranous ; 

 oblong or obovate-oblong, acuminate at apex, attenuate or rounded, 

 sometimes slightly auricled at base ; glabrous on both surfaces except 



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