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in dried specimens. The number of the pistils varies from 2 to 5. There are in 

 the Kew Herbarium fruiting specimens oft a plant collected by GriflBth which exactly 

 resembles this except that its fruits (which are immature) are non-tuberculate and 

 are covered with a dense coating of long silky tawny hairs. The same plant was 

 collected by the Calcutta Garden Collector (No. 6878), but also without flowers. 

 I believe the dense hairiness of the fruit of both gatherings to be due to the irrita- 

 tion caused by the deposit of the eggs of some insect in the young fruit. 



2. Agel^a Wallichii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 47. A slender, 

 woody creeper 20 to 50 feet long, all parts except the inflorescence 

 glabrous. Leaflets coriaceous, slightly unequal, ovate-elliptic, with 

 rounded or cuneate bases and short caudate-acuminate apices ; the petio- 

 lule of the terminal leaflet about I in. long, thickened near the apex ; 

 the petiolules of the lateral leaflets about '25 in. long ; both surfaces 

 shining, the lower reticulate ; length 3 to 4*5 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 2*25 

 in. ; main nerves 2 or 3 pairs, ascending, much curved, one pair sub- 

 marginal. Panicles under 1 in. long, extra-axillary, pubescent. Flowers 

 *25 in. in diam., on pedicels longer than themselves. Calyx divided for 

 three-fourths of its length into 5 ovate-lanceolate imbricate segments, 

 sparsely pubescent externally, glabrous internally, their edges densely 

 sericeous. Petals longer and narrower than the segments of the calyx, 

 glabrous, linear, sub-acute. Stamens 10, sub-equal, longer than the 

 styles, much shorter than the petals. Pistils 5, very short, stout. 

 Follicle usually solitary, bright red when ripe, ovoid, curved, shortly 

 beaked, covered outside with short obtuse tubercles and minutely rusty- 

 tomentose, inside glabrous, *6 in. long. Seed oblong, black, its lower 

 half pale and arilliform. Connaracea, Wall. Cat., 8544. 



Singapore; Wallich. Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) No. 1275, 

 Maingay,No. 511, Derry, No. 69. Penang; Curtis, Nos. 16.33 and 3032. 

 Perak ; Wray, No. 48, Scortechini, No. 1730, King's Collector, No. 3735. 

 — DiSTRiB. Sumatra, Forbes, No. 2589. 



3. Ageljia pinnata, King n. spec. A woody climber 30 to 40 feet 

 long ; young branches rusty-puberulous, striate. Leaflets 3 to 5, thinly 

 coriaceous, unequal, (the middle the largest), elliptic, broadly and 

 shortly caudate-acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cuneate ; upper 

 surface glabrous except the minutely pubescent midrib ; lower surface 

 minutely sub-adpressed pubescent, the transverse veins distinct; the 

 midrib tomentose ; main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, spreading and curving 

 upwards, prominent on the lower surface, slightly impressed on the 

 upper ; length of the terminal leaflet 6 to 8 in., breadth 3 to 3'5 in. ; 

 its petiolule jointed to the rachis and not longer than those of the lateral 

 slightly smaller leaflets. Panicles about 1 in. long, densely crowded in 

 the axils of the leaves, many-flowered, minutely tomentose. Flowers 

 •3 in. long, their pedicels half as long. CaZ^aj divided to the very base 

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