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TTvaria latt'folia, Blnme, as described and fio^nred by that author has 

 larger flowers than the common Perak plant and its carpels ai'e globular, 

 whereas those of the Perak plant are ovoid and apiculate. The plant 

 figured by Blume does, however, occur thei'e, but it is not common. The 

 forms may be characterised thus : — 



Var. typica: flowers '7 in. long: fruit globular, not apiculate, 1 in. 

 in diam. TJvaria latifolia, Blume 1. c. t. 15. Perak, Java. 



Var. ovoidea : flowers '5 in. long : fruit ovoid, slightly apiculate, 

 often oblique, as much as 2"25 in. long, very oblique and warted when 

 young. M. lafifoUum, H. f. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. 79. Malacca, Pei'ak, 

 Singapore. The common form in the Malay Peninsula. 



5. Melodorum cylindricum, Maingay in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. T, 80. 

 A climber : young branches minutely rusty-pubescent, speedily glabrous 

 and dark-coloured. Leaijes coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, brownish when 

 dry, acute or acuminate, the base rounded or slightly narrowed ; upper 

 surface quite glabrous, the lower paler, minutely pubescent; main nerves 

 8 to 10 pairs, spreading, very faint; length 2'5 bo 4'25 in., breadth 1"6 to 

 1"8 in., petiole "5 in. Flowers "5 in. long, solitary, axillary, di'ooping ; 

 buds short, pyramidal, adpressed, brown-pubescent : pedicel short, stout, 

 ■with minute bracteole. Sepals small, triangular, connate, forming a flat 

 spreading cup. Outer petals triangular-ovate, triquetrous with an ex- 

 cavated base ; the inner very small, triangular, glabrous. Stameyis nu- 

 merous, the apex of the connective orbicular. Ovaries 4 to 6, sericeous. 

 Ripe carpels cylindric, curved, both ends obtuse, sub-tubercular, minutely 

 brown-pubescent, 1 to 175 in. long and "35 to "75 in. in diam. ; i)ericarp 

 thin ; stalk '5 in. long, stout. Seeds many, horizontal, in two series, 

 compressed, "65 in. long, shining, with a small cartilaginous arillus. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 78. Singapore: Ridley, 

 No. 2115. 



6. Mi<:lodorum htpoglaucdm, Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 

 37. A strong creeper : young branches minutely rufous-pubescent, 

 ultimately glabrous, rather pale and much tubercled. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, acute or shortly acumi- 

 nate, the base rounded or cuneate ; upper surface glabrous except the 

 rufous-puberulous midrib ; lower minutely hoary-puberulous, the 10 or 

 12 pairs of bold oblique curving main nerves iiltimately glabrous and 

 darker-coloured ; length 3 to 5'5 in., breadth 1-35 to 22 in., petiole 25 

 in. Flowers '5 to "8 in. long, in lax, 2-to 3-flowered, axillary racemes or 

 (by abortion of the leaves) in lax, terminal, 10- to 12-flowered panicles ; 

 pedicels as long as the flowers, slender ; bracteoles 1 or 2, minute. 

 Sppals ovate, acute, concave, conjoined only at the base, rufous-pubes- 

 cent outside ; puberulous within. Petals leathery, linear-lanceolate 



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