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minutely puberulous especially towards the edges ; the outer row ovate- 

 orbicular, sub-acute, 35 in. long ; the inner row smaller, thicker, blunter 

 and more imbricate than the outer. Stamens numerous ; the connective 

 with a rather thick truncate, 4- or 5-sided apical process concealing the 

 apices of the linear dorsal anthers. Ovaries numerous, obliquely oblong, 

 curved, glabrous, pubescent at the base, 1 to 2-ovuled, with a conical, 

 narrow, inflexed stigma. Ripe carpels reddish, ovoid, "4 to '6 in. long, 

 glabrous, with a single ovoid or 2 plano-convex shining pale brown seeds : 

 stalks about as long as the carpels, slender. 



Perak ; Scortechini, Wray, King's Collector. 



4. Ctathostemma Hookeri, King n. sp. A climber 40 to 80 feet 

 long ; all parts, except the infloi'escence, quite glabrous. Leaves mem- 

 branous, broadly oblanceolate to oblong or ovate-elliptic, acute or very 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cuneate ; both 

 surfaces shining, glabrous, minutely reticulate ; main nerves 9 or 10 

 pairs, spreading or ascending, curving, inter-arching within the edge ; 

 length 5'5 to 7 in., breadth 2-25 to 2*75 in., petiole •S in. Floivers -25 

 in. in diam., sub-globose, in extra-axillary or leaf-opposed fascicles or 

 cymes of 2 or 3 ; pedicels slender, puberulous, 3 to '4 in long with 1 or 2 

 bracteoles. Sepals spreading, broadly and obliquely ovate, sub-acute, 

 slightly thickened at the base, '1 in. long. Pe^aZs concave ; the outer 

 row slightly longer than the sepals but narrower, obovate, contracted 

 into a pseudo-claw at the base, sparsely puberulous outside ; the inner 

 row narrower, thicker, and more concave, oblique. Stamens numerous, 

 short, with a thick incurved apical process from the connective ; anther 

 cells dorsal. Ovaries numerous, oblong, thickened upwards, puberulous ; 

 the stigma large, sub-quadrate, slightly 2-lobed. Bipe carpels numer- 

 ous, oblong to ovoid, blunt at each end, glabrescent, "75 to 1'75 in. long 

 and "6 to '9 in. in diam. ; stalk 1*5 to 2 in. stout. Seeds 6 in a sino-le 

 row, compressed, oblong, pale brown, shining. Uvaria parvijlora, Hook, 

 fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 103 ; Fl. Br. Ind I, 51. 



Penang ; Phillips, Curtis. Perak ; Scortechini, Wray, King's Col- 

 lector. 



For upwards of seventy years this plant had been known only by 

 Phillips' scanty specimens from Penang. In 1887 Mr. Curtis sent 

 flowering specimens of it, together with a single ripe carpel from the 

 same island ; while copious flowering and fruiting specimens were, about 

 the same time, received from Perak. In all its parts the plant is essen- 

 tially a Gyathostemma. 



5. Cyathostemma acuminatum, n. sp. King. A climber; branches 

 pale brownish, the youngest slender, dark-coloured, rufous-puberulous. 



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