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shorter than the flowers. Sepals broadly ovate, blunt, pubescent. Fetals 

 linear-oblong, broadly ovate. Stamens 10, alternately shorter than the 

 filaments, expanded towards the base and united by their edges ; ovaries 

 slightly hairy on the inner side, styles glabrous. Follicles obliquely 

 ovate-oblong, pointed, coriaceous, glabrous, '75 to 1 in. long. Seed ovate 

 covered by an orange-coloured arillus. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 47 • 

 Kurz For. Flora Burma I, 324. Qnestis monadel'pha^ Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 

 454. Connaracea, Wall. Cat., 8547, 8548. 



Andaman and Nicobar Islands. — Distrib. Burma, Chittagong, 

 Sylhet and Assam. 



The present species (pablishedin 1850), R.pulchella, Blume (1850), and L. humilis, 

 Planch. (1850), difEer from each other so little that I am not sure that tliey should 

 not be reduced to one, in which case the species might be named Rourea monadelpha, 

 the earliest published name of any of them being Cnestis monadelpha, Roxb. (1832). 

 4. RouEEA PULCHELLA, Planch. in Linnaea XXIII, 419. Scandent, 

 woody, quite glabrous. Leaves 3 to 7 in. long ; leaflets 3 to 7, thinly 

 coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, obtusely caudate-acuminate, th^ upper sur- 

 face very shining, the lower less so, both reticulate ; main nerves 4 or 5 

 pairs, spreading, faint ; length 1*5 to 3 in., breadth '75 to 1-6 in. ; petio- 

 lules '15 in., slender. Racemes crowded in the axils, shorter than the 

 leaves. Flowers '25 in. in diam., the pedicels of the same length, slender. 

 Sepals broadly ovate, acute, ciliolate, half as long as the petals, liuear- 

 oblong. Pistils 5, ovaries pilose, styles slender. Follicle stout, curved, 

 pointed, glabrous, '6 in. long, red when ripe. Hook. fil. Fh Br. Ind. II. 48. 

 Malacca ; Griffith, No. 1265. Maingay, No. 501 (Kew Distrib.) ; 

 Ridley, No. 1449. Singapore, Ridley, Nos. 2028, 3981. Perak j Wray, 

 Nos. 1167, 3774. 



5. Rourea humilis, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 262. Scandent, 

 woody, glabrous. Leaves 3*5 to 6 in. long, the rachises slender ; leaf- 

 lets 3 rarely 5, coriaceous, broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular, abruptly 

 and obtusely caudate-acuminate, the base rounded, rarely sub-cuneate, 

 upper surface very shining, the lower less so and more distinctly reti- 

 culate; main nerves about 4 pairs, spreading, faint; length 1-5 to 3 in., 

 breadth 1 to 2*25 in. petiolules about '2 in., the terminal leaflet the 

 largest. Uacemes axillary, clustered, slender, few-flowered ; the buds 

 sub-globose, on pedicels of about their own length. Galyx-lohes sub- 

 orbicular, glabrous. Stamens shorter than the calyx, much shorter than 

 the styles. Follicles cylindric, pointed, coriaceous, glabrous, '75 in. long. 

 Nicobar Islands ; Jelinek, No. 140. Kurz. Penang ; Curtis, No. 2285. 

 Pahang, Ridley, Nos. 2645, 5121; Singapore. Perak; King's Col- 

 lector, No. 4677, Scortechini. — Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo. 



Distinguished chiefly by its broadly ovate coriaceous leaves, very shiuiug ou the 

 upper surface and with broad buses. 



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