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punctiform. Fruit truncate, obovoicl-oblong, cuneate at the base when 

 quite ripe, •l9-'23 in. long, obtusely trigonous. Cogn. in DO. Mon. VII, 

 513 ; Stapf in Ann. Bot. VI, 308. 



Malacca ; Mt. Opliir, on dripping places, Griffith 2300 ! Maingay 

 2583 ! Lohh 182. 



22. SoNERiLA Cyclaminella, Stapf and King. A rather delicate, 

 perfectly glabrous, almost acaulescent herb, with a creeping rhizome. 

 Stem usually extremely short, quadrangular. Leaves in about 4 pairs, 

 almost crowded into a rosette, those of a pair similar in shape and size, 

 ovate to oblong-obtuse or subobtuse at both ends or subcordate at the 

 base, ratlier symmetrical, undulate-crenulate or almost entire, mem- 

 branous, light or dark brownish green above with silvery bands alono* 

 the midrib and often also along the side, nerves more or less rich violet 

 underneath, -8-1*4 in. by •4-6, distinctly although finely 5-7-nerved 

 below the middle, often with 1 or 2 delicate side-nerves higher up ; 

 petioles slender, '4-1 in. long. Gymes 2-5-flo\vered, very much con- 

 tracted; peduncles slender, 2-5 in. long, pedicels slender, •08-' 1 in. 

 long. Calyx slender, subcampatmlate-oblong, •12-15 in. long; teeth 

 triangular, short. Petals elliptic, cuspidate-acuminate, scarcely ^25 in. 

 long, light pink. Anthers acuminate, '12 in. long. Stijle filiform, '25 in. 

 long ; stigma minutely subcapitate. Fruit truncate, obovoid, obtusely 

 trigonous, •12-'16 in. long. 



Perak ; on rocky hilltops, 800-1000 ft., King's Collector 10745 ! 

 10746 ! 10744 (in part) ! 



Var. canescens, Stapf and King. Leaves more or less covered above 

 with long, flexuous, white hairs ; some of Ridley's specimens have leaves 

 up to 3 in. by 1*2 in. 



Perak ; with the type ; King's Collector 1074i (in part) ! 

 Selangore ; Bukit Kinta, 3000 ft., on rocks, Uidley 7318 ! 



23. SoNERiLA HETEROSTEMONA, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 

 326, t. XVIII, fig. 4, An erect or ascending, often branched herb, 

 •5-2 ft. high, rarel}^ quite dwarf, quite glabrous apart from an extremely 

 fine, furf uraceous, rusty indumentum in the younger parts and, occasion- 

 ally, a few scattered, short, whitish hairs on the upper surface of the 

 leaves. Stem somewhat stout, quadrangular. Leaves of a pair similar 

 in shape, but usually very unequal or one arrested at a very early stage 

 or quite suppressed, rarely both more or less equal, usually conspicuously 

 asymmetrical, obliquely ovate, subacute or shortly acuminate, rounded 

 or shortly narrowed at the base, minutely toothed, membranous, 

 metallic green, often spotted above, purplish beneath on the nerves, 

 1-5-45 in. by 1-23 in., 5-6-nerved from the very base with fine, lax, 

 more or less horizontal transverse veins; petioles very unequal in 

 length, "5-2 in. long. Cymes axillary and terminal, much contracted 



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