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Leaves elliptic to oblong, obtuse or shortly 



and bluntly niucronate, coriaceous ... 5. A. crassifolius. 

 Leaves oblong, acuminate, coriaceous ... 6. A. ohlongus. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate. 



Leaves shortly caudate-acuminate, 



flower nearly 2 in. long ... 7. A. Lowianus. 



Leaves shortly acuminate ; flower 1"5 

 to 1"75 in. long ; ripe carpels nar- 

 rowly elliptic, tapering to both ends, 

 glabrous ... ... ... 8. A. oxycarjous. 



Limb of petals linear, sub-triquetrous, cylindric, or 

 sub-clavate. 



Petals thickly coriaceous, linear, blunt, ad- 



pressed-pubescent ... ... 9. A. speciosus. 



Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, (glabrous ?) 10. A. Maingayi. 

 Petals fleshy, the outer 3 flattened ; the 



inner 3 obtusely triquetrous ... 11. A. gracilis. 



Petals fleshy, the limb cylindric to clavate 12. A suaveolens. 

 Imperfectly known species ... ... 13. A. costatus. 



* * * ... ... 14. A. Wrayi. 



1. Artabotrts grandifolius, n. sp. King. A powerful creeper 60 

 to 80 feet long ; young branches stout, pale, striate, glabrous. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, large, minutely pellucid-punctate, pale yellowish-gx'een 

 when dry, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-obovate ; the apex broad, obtuse or 

 abruptly sub-acute ; the base cuneate : both surfaces glabrous, distinctly 

 reticulate, the upper shining, the lower duller : main nerves 10 to 12 

 pairs, oblique, inter-arching boldly '25 in. from the edge ; length of 

 blade 8 to 14 in., breadth 3 to 5 in. : petiole '4 in., stout. Petals very 

 fleshy, densely and minutely tomentose, unequal ; the outer 3 broadly 

 elliptic, sub-acute or blunt, slightly concave, -75 in, long and "4 in. broad : 

 inner 3 obovoid, spreading but with incurved apices, slightly shorter 

 than the outer. Peduncles (in fruit) nearly 3 in. long, stout : torus 

 hemispheric, 1 in. in diam. Pipe carpels numerous, glabrous, lenticellate, 

 elliptic-obovoid, the apex mammillate, narrowed at the base into a short 

 stout pseudo-stalk nearly '5 in. long ; length of ripe carpel about 1-5 in., 

 diam. I in. : pericai-p hard, about '1 in. thick. Seed solitary, narrowly 

 ellipsoid, blunt, I'l in. long, and '6 in. in. diam. ; the testa pale, rugulose. 

 A. macrophyllus, King MSS. (not of Hook. fil). 



Perak ; at Goping, elevation 500 to 800 feet. King's Collector, No. 

 4477 ; Scortechini No. 1068. 



Some specimens of this were unfortunately distributed from the 

 Calcutta Herbarium under the MSS. name of A. macrophylluSy — a name 

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