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2 to 3 in., tomentose. Umbels pedunculate, solitary or iu fascicles of 5 or 

 6, axillary, few-flowered, stellate-tomentose : peduncles "5 to 1 in. ; 

 pedicels "1 to '25 in., both slender. Buds 'l iu. in diam. Sepals ovate, 

 acute. Petals rounded, with long cylindric inflexed apices longer than 

 the sepals. Fniit unknown. 



Malacca, Maingay : No. 241 (Kew Distrib.). Perak ; Scortechini. 



Evidently a rare species; for I have seen, besides Maingay's, only 

 Scortechiui's solitary specimen. 



5. B. Jackiana, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Tnd. (ed. Carey) ii. 386. A 

 stout woody creeper, the young branches with densely minute ferrugi- 

 nous tomentum some of which is stellate. Leaves narrowly or broadly 

 elliptic, acuminate, entire ; the base boldly 3-nerved, rounded, sometimes 

 slightly cordate, rarely acute ; upper surface sparsely and shortly hispid ; 

 under surface rufous, hispid-tomentose especially on midrib and. nerves, 

 many of the hairs on both surfaces stellate ; lateral nerves 3 or 4 pairs, 

 curved, spreading; length 3'5 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 3"75 in. ; petiole "4 

 to 1 in. tomentose. Umbels pedunculate, solitary or in groups of 3 or 4 

 from the leaf-axils, few-flowered, tomentose : peduncles "25 to 1 in. 

 long ; pedicels about "35, slender. Sepals linear-subulate, spreading, 

 hispid, about 4 in. long. Petals sub-rotund, lobed, each with a single 

 long cylitidric terminal appendage as long as the sepals. Capsule glo- 

 bose, slightly 5-furrowed, 1 in. in diam., black, glabrescent, ai'med with 

 many straight spines. Seeds oblong, black. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. i. 376 ; Wall. Cat. 1147. 



Penang, Perak and Singapore ; at low elevations. 



6, B. ASPERA, Colebr. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey), ii. 383. A 

 powerful woody climber often with a tree-like stem ; young branches 

 glaucous, minutely and deciduously pubescent. Leaves sub-orbicular 

 or ovate-orbicular, shortly acuminate, entire, the base cordate, 5 to 7- 

 nerved ; upper surface glabrous, shining ; the lower glabrescent, the 

 midrib and nerves puberulous ; lateral nerves 4 to 6 pairs, prominent 

 beneath as are the stout transverse veins ; length 4"5 to 7"5 in., breadth 

 about the same : petiole 2 to 5 in., glaucous-pubescent at first, afterwards 

 glabrous. Cymes axillary, solitary or fasciculate, pedunculate, much 

 branched, many-flowered, pubescent to tomentose, 3 or 4 in. long : 

 ultimate pedicels "5 in. long, slender. Sepals lanceolate, acute, spreading, 

 '15 in. long, puberulous externally. Petals cuneate, shorter than the 

 sepals, 3-lobed, the middle lobe linear-lanceolate, reflexed. Staminodes 

 truncate. Ovary globular, scabrid Capsules globular, 1'5 to 2 in. 

 in diam., slightly depressed, pubescent when young, glabrous when ripe, 



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