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saccate base small in all. Torus small, sericeous. Ovaries glabrous. 

 Ripe carpels numerous, sessile, glabrous, narrowly elliptic, tapering to 

 each end, the apex caudate, 1 to 12 in. long and "4 in. in diara. ; pericarp 

 thin. Seeds 2, plano-convex, compressed, blunt, "25 in. long. 



Perak ; King's Collector, Nos. 5150 and 5G05 ; Wi'ay No. 3286. 



This species comes near the Bornean A. polygynus, Miq. (Ann. Mus. 

 Lagd. Bat. II, 4). But this species has more pointed and perfectly smooth 

 ripe carpels ; while those of A. polygynus are more ovoid, with shorter 

 terminal point and have many vertical ridges, A. polygynus moreover 

 is sub-strigosely pubescent, this is glabrous. 



9. Artabotrys SPECiosas, Kurz in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 55. 

 A large climber : young branches slender, dark-coloured, sparsely ad- 

 pressed-pilose, afterwards glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate, shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base 

 acute ; both surfaces glabrous, shining : main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, 

 spreading, inter-arching at some distance from the edge, slender: length 

 of blade 6 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 2'5 in., petiole "25 in. Peduncles extra- 

 axillary, flattened, short and not much hooked, puberulous, each bearing 

 several short puberulous 1-flovvered ebracteolate flower-pedicels : flowers 

 from 1-25 to nearly 2 in. long, yellow. Sepals "2 in. long, broadly ovate, 

 acute, pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Petals thickly coriaceous, 

 adpressed-pubescent, linear above the concave base, rather blunt ; the 

 inner smaller than the outer ; torus pilose : fruit unknown. Kurz For. 

 Flora, Burm. I, 32. 



Andaman Islands ; along Middle Straits, Kurz. S. Andaman ; at 

 Caddellgunge, King's Collector. 



10. Artabotrys Maingayi, H. f. and T. in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 55. A powerful creeper, 40 to 80 feet long : all parts glabrous except 

 the flowers ; the young branches slender, dark-coloured. Leaves thin, 

 elliptic, acuminate at base and apex : both surfaces shining, finely reti- 

 culate : main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, spreading, faint : length of blade 3'5 

 to 6 ic, breadth r35 to 2 in., petiole '25 to "5 in. Peduncles flat, much 

 curved, glabrous. Flowers 1 in. in diam., fascicled, peduncle '5 to 

 1'5 in , hoary-pubescent. Sepals small, obtuse, "2 in. long. Petals: the 

 outer linear-oblong, obtixse, concave the saccate base small and sub- 

 orbicular, 1 to 125 in. long and "25 to '35 broad; the inner smaller and 

 narrower and much curved. Ovaries 3 or 4 ovoid, glabrous. Pipe 

 carpels sessile, elliptic-globose, mammillate, yellow, glabrous, when ripe 

 2'0 in., long and 1"5 in. in diam. Seeds 2, plano-convex, testa stony. 



Malacca ; Maingay. 



11. Artabotrys gracilis, n sp. King. A slender woody climber, 

 60 to 80 feet long : young branches dark-coloured : all parts quite 



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