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scattered stout bristles ^ lower surface coarsely strigose on the nerves, 

 otherwise glabrous, the reticulations fine ; length 10 to 16 in., breadth 



3 to 6 in., petiole to 1*5 in. Peduncles much shorter than the leaves, 

 solitary or several from one axil, sparsely glandular-hairy, bearing at 

 their apices a solitary, lax, involucrate, compound umbel ; involucres 

 oblong, obtuse, glabrous, "5 in. in length or shorter, those of the umbel- 

 lules smaller ; pedicels shorter than the calyx-tube. Floivers nearly "75 

 in. long. Calyx-tube rather widely cylindric, bearing (especially towards 

 its base) numerous flat, shortly stalked, fleshy discoid glands ; the teeth 

 4, short, shallow, wide, each crowned by a stalked gland. Petals longer 

 than the calyx, oblong, much acuminate (forming a narrow cone in bud). 

 Stan^ens 8 ; the filaments about one-fourth as long as the linear acu- 

 minate anthers. Ovary short, broad, truncate, deeply grooved and 

 almost winged ; style long, flattened, smooth. Capsule '3 in. in diam. 



Perak ; Scortechini 1872. King's Collector 7233. 

 At once recognisable by the curiously glandular calyx. 



2. Phyllagathis GtRIFPITHIi, King. A shrub with a very short 

 stem and usually only a single pair of unequal leaves. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, sub-rotund, 7 -nerved, apex obtuse, the base cordate, edges quite 

 entire ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower lepidote and slightly pube- 

 rulous on the nerves ; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 35 to 6*5 in., petiole 



4 to 8 in. Panicle axillary, nearly as long as the leaves, bearing in 

 its upper half a few very short few-flowered branches, the whole 

 lepidote especially towards the apex. Floivers corymbose, on scabe- 

 rulous pedicels, as long as the narrowly campanulate glandular-hairy 

 calyx-tube : mouth of calyx truncate, slightly expanded, and minutely 

 4-toothed. Petals 4, quadrate. Stamens much exserted : anthers not 

 so long as the glabrous filaments, narrow acuminate, much sagittate at 

 the base, inappendiculate. Allomorphia Griffithii, Hook. MSS. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. II, 527. Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 74, t. VI, fig. mc ; 

 Cogn. in DO. Mon. Phan. VII, 467. 



-Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2264/1. Maingay (K.D.) 775; Hullett. 

 Perak ; Scortechini 170; King's Collector 694. Selangore ; Curtis 2333 ! 

 Ridley 7317. Penang ; Stolickza. 



I have removed this from Allomorphia to Phyllagathis of which ifc has the 

 flowers and habit. 



3. Phyllagathis Scortechinii, King, n. sp. Stem woody below, 

 shortly creeping above and subterete. Leaves on very long petioles, 

 coriaceous, reniform-rotund, cordate, the apex minutely apiculate, 

 stoutly 9-nerved; the transverse veins bold, glabrous on the upper 

 surface, glandular-puberulous on the lower ; length 5 to 10 in. ; breadth 



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