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expanded, obscurely 4-toothed. Petals 4, oblong, acute, reflexed. 

 Stamens 8 ; anthers curved, linear-lanceolate, with a short 1-pored 

 apical process ; the base with a short, sharp, downward-pointing spur 

 from the connective ; the bases of the anther-cells each with a linear, 

 curved, small tubercle as long as the spur, and like it dark in colour 

 when dry. Fruit ovoid-globular, '2 in. in diam. 



PePvAIv; Scortechini 307, 478, 622; Curtis 1297; TFm?/391, 1739; 

 King's Collector 4188. 



The nearest ally of this is M. javanensis, Bl. 



7. Medinilla M.viNGAYr, C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 549. A small epiphyte with slender, terete, pale, smooth branches. 

 Leaves opposite, thinly coriaceous, obovate, with rounded apices and 

 cuneate bases, obscurely 3-nerved, the lower surface rather paler than the 

 upper when dry ; length '65 to 1-25 in. ; breadth '5 to '75 in. ; petiole *05 

 to -2 in. C^/mp^ much shorter than the leaves, with short, divaricate, 

 broadly bracteolate branches, few-flowered. Flo2vers '25 in. long, their 

 pedicels shorter. Galyx-tuhe narrowly campamilate, with a slightly 

 expanded, minutely 4-toothed limb. Petals 4^ lanceolate, sparsely 

 strigose outside. Stamens 8 ; anthers lanceolate, without protuberences 

 at the base in front, but with a short spur behind. Fruit unknown. 

 Cogn. in. DC. Mon. Phan. YII, 586. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 806, 807. Perak ; Wray 3781. 

 Singapore ; Uidley 1652, 2018. Pahang ; Uidley 2663. 



8. Medinilla Clarkei, King, n. sp. A small epiphyte; yoang 

 branches with dark, rough, tubercled bark. Leaves in whorls of three 

 or four, broadly elliptic to obovate, blunt or subacute, the base cuneate ; 

 the npper surface rugulose and green when dry, the lower pale-brown ; 

 length 1 to 2-75 in., breadth -75 to 1-8 in. ; petiole '4 to '8 in., puberu- 

 lous. Cymes about as long as the leaves or slightly longer, from the 

 axils of fallen leaves, on slender pedicels from '5 to -75 in. long, the 

 branches whorled, spreading, minutely bracteolate at the divisions ; 

 pedicels slender. Floicers 20 to 30, '3 in. in length. Calyx-tuhe cupular, 

 the mouth truncate and usually obscurely toothed, sometimes distinctly 

 5-toothed. Petals 5, broadly ovate to rotund, blunt. Stamens 10; 

 anthers linear-lanceolate ; the base with two small tubercles in front, 

 and a small spur behind. Fruit globular- truncate, -15 in. in diam. 

 M. rosea, C. B. Clai ke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 547 {not of Gaudicliaud). 



Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 2282 ; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 

 796 ; StoliczJca in Herb. Calc. Perak ; Scortechini 243 ; Wray 206, 412, 

 3831, 4084; King's Collector 7333; at elevations of from 3000 to 5000 

 feet. 



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