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and hairy ; the inner 6 to 8 much larger ; all imbricate, glabrous. Petals 

 4 to 6, smaller than the inner sepals, oblong, incurved at the apex, rather 

 fleshy. Stamens 6 to 10, free, in two series ; filaments compressed, thicken- 

 ed upwards; anthers ovate, 2-celled. Female Jloiver (fide Mievs) Sepals 

 8, oblong, all imbricate. Petals 5 or 6, oblong, concave. Staminodes 6, 

 clavate. Ovaries 6, rarely 3. Style very short. Drupes 2-3, trans- 

 versely ovate, fleshy ; endocarp bony, sub-globose, slightly compressed, 

 ■with radiating grooves, and with a single lunate cell ; embryo terete, 

 slender ; radicle as long as the cotyledons. 



1. H. TRIFLORA, Miers Coiitrib. iii, 102. Branches striate, the 

 youngest pabescent. Leaves small, sub-cornaceous, shining, glabrous, ob- 

 long-lanceolate, tapering gradually to the rather blunt minutely mu- 

 cronate apex ; the base rounded, 3-nerved ; reticulations fine but rather 

 obscure, as are the nerves ; length of blade 1'5 to 3*5 in., breadth '5 to 

 1'25 in., petiole "3 to '5 in. Cymes about 3-flovvered, little longer than the 

 petioles, usually solitary, axillary and supra-axillary, the female shorter. 



Malacca; Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1'23). Perak; Scortechini, 

 King's Collector. Distrib. Sumatra. 



Tlie Perak specimens agree with the types of Miquel's Limacia mi- 

 crophylla from Sumatra in Herb. Calcutta; and they do not agree in 

 externals with the Indian L. cnspidata. Ripe fruit of this is unknown. 

 But the flowers are so different from tliose of Limacia that I think it 

 ought not to be included in that genus, and I further venture to think 

 that Miers's genus Hypserpa has a sufficiently sure basis ou the struc- 

 ture of the flowers alone. 



10. COCCULDS, DC. 



Climbing or sarraentose shrubs, rarely suberecfc. Petiole not dilated 

 at the base. Floioers in panicles. Sepals 6, 2-seriate, outer smaller. 

 Petals 6, smaller, usually aui'icled. Male flower ; stamens embraced by the 

 petals ; anthex'S sub-globose, cells bursting ti-ansversely. Female floiver ; 

 staminodes 6 or 0. Ovaries 3 to 6 ; styles usually cylindric. Drtipes 

 laterally compressed ; endocarp horse-shoe-shaped, dorsally keeled and 

 tubercled, sides excavate. Seed curved, albumen fleshy; embryo 

 annular; cotyledons linear, flat, appressed. — Distrib. All warm climates. 



1. C. KuNSTLEKi, King, n. sp. Glabrous ; the branches striate, pale. 

 Leaves membranous, with long petioles, peltate, rotund, acute; nerves 9, 

 radiating from the petiolnr insei'tion, thin but prominent on the pale 

 under surface ; length of blade 325 to 4 in., breadth about "25 in. or less ; 

 petiole slender, terete, about 3 in. long. Panicles in fascicles of 2 to 4, 

 from flat warty tubercles on the stem, narrow, the lateral branches only 

 about -.5 in. long, few-flowered. Sepals imbricate, glabrous. Petals 6, 



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