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into 5 linear acuminate reflexed segments, half as long as the petals, 

 tomentose externally. Petals linear, ' much acuminate, glabrous, white 

 inside and purple outside. Stamens 5, shorter than the pistils, the 

 anthers sub-globular. Pistils 5, the ovaries softly tomentose ; the styles 

 spreading, recurved ; the stigma bifid. Fruit unknown, 

 Perak; King's Collector, No. 5425. 



This differs notably from both the other species of this genus in its leaflets 

 having often 5 instead of 3 leaflets. la the structure of its flowers, however, it 

 agrees perfectly with the diagnosis of the genus. It is more nearly allied to A. 

 vestita than to A. WalUchii, but it differs from both in the larger number of maia 

 nerves in its leaves. Its flowers are moreover larger than these of A. vestita, and 

 the petals are differently coloured. 



4. AoEL^A HuLLETTii, King n. spec. A woody creeper 15 to 20 

 feet long ; young branches minutely tomentose. Leaflets 3, coriaceous ; 

 the terminal slightly the largest, narrowly elliptic-oblong ; the lateral 

 pair slightly oblique, ail with acute apices and cuneate bases ; the petio- 

 lule of the terminal one from 5 to '7d in. long, jointed; those of the 

 lateral pair 25 in. long ; upper surface glabrous and minutely pitted, 

 the lower finely reticulate, when young sub-lepidote and puberulous, 

 when adult glabrous ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, spreading and curving 

 upwards, prominent on the lower and obsolete on the upper surface ; 

 some of the intermediate nearly as distinct ; length of the terminal 

 leaflet 6 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 25 in., the lateral pair rather smaller. 

 Panicles less than 1 in. long, minutely tomentose, crowded in the 

 leaf -axils or from the axils of fallen leaves, many-flowered. Flowers 

 •2 in. long and about the same across ; their pedicels about "25 in. long. 

 Calyx divided for two-thirds of its length into 5 lanceolate segments, 

 tomentose outside, glabrescent inside. Petals longer than the sepals, 

 spreading, linear-oblong, glabrous, with a mesial rib, recurved from 

 about the middle. Stamens 10, the alternate ones shorter, none of 

 them so long as the pistils. Ovaries narrowly oblong, tomentose. Styles 

 sub-glabrous, slightly diverging. Follicles 1 to 3, bright red when ripe, 

 woody, ovoid, shortly beaked, externally tubercled and minutely rusty- 

 tomentose, inside glabrous, length '5 to -65 in. Seed sub-cylindric, com- 

 pressed, the upper half black, the lower pale and arilliform, 5 in. long. 



Singapore; Hullett, No. 841; Ridley, No. 4589. Perak; King'8 

 Collector, No, 5729. 



This is distinguished from A. pinnata by the leaflets being invariably 3 and the 

 stamens being only 5 while, in that species, there are often 5 leaflets and always 10 

 etamens, This resembles A. WalUchii in some respects, but it differs from that 

 species in having larger leaflets more cuneate at the base with acute, not caudate- 

 acuminate, apices and with more than twice as many main nerves. The leaflets of 

 the former are moreover quite glabrous at all stages, while in this the lower sur- 

 face of the young leaflets is puberulous and lepidote. 



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