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diam. Seeds broadly oblong, compressed, foveolate with a row of short 

 radiating grooves round the edges. Modecca populifolia, Blume Rum- 

 phia, 168 t. 60. M. popidifolia, B\. : Masters in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 II, 603 (amongst imperfectly knotvn species). 



Malacca; Maingay (K.D.) 668. Perak ; Scortechini 1609; King's 

 Collector, many Nos. 



Blume describes and figures his Modecca populifolia plant as tetramerous and 

 as this exactly agrees both with his text and figure, except in being pentamerous, 



1 regard it as a variety. There are in Herb. Calcutta specimens from Perak without 

 flower or fruit, of what appears to be a 3-lobed form of this. 



5. Adenia acuminata, King. Stems slender, striate. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, ovate-oblong or rotund-ovate, the base usually narrowed 

 but sometimes sub-cordate always bi-glandular ; the apex shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate; the secondary nerves and reticulations distinct 

 on both surfaces when dry but especially on the lower ; main-nerves 



2 or sometimes 3 pairs, originating from the midrib near its base, all 

 prominent: length 4 to 6 in. ; breadth 2 to 4 in. ; petiole 75 to 135 in. 

 long. Peduncles usually nearly as long as the leaves but sometimes 

 much shorter, bearing a few short many-flowered spreading branches 

 at the apex and often a short tendril. Male flower narrowly ovoid, '25 

 to -3 in. long. Calyx leathery with 5 short ovate-lanceolate lobes. 

 Petals thick, oblong, acute, springing from the calyx-tube above the 

 middle. Glands small, lanceolate. Anthers linear, sub-acute, erect, the 

 filaments short. Female flower larger than the males (-4 in. long), 

 tubular, swollen in the lower third. Calyx-lohesYevj short, broad, blunt, 

 incurved. Petals narrowly oblong, sub-acute, incurved. Ovary fusiform . 

 Fruit fusiform, dull, reddish when dry, about 2 in. long and "75 in. 

 in diam. at the middle. Seeds compressed, subrotund, boldly pitted 

 in the centre and with a marginal row of radiating grooves on each 

 side, slightly oblique and pointed at the base. Modecca acuminata, 

 Blume Bijdr. 940 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1,702. M. singaporeana, 

 Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 601 {in part). 



Perak; Scortechini 254, 459, 629; Wray 498, 1745; Ridley 9462, 

 9632; King's Collector, many numbers. Selangor; Eidley 7288. 

 Malacca; Goodrich 1340.— Distrib. ; Java, Sumatra, (Beccari P.S. 743). 



6. Adenia singaporeana, Engl, in Jahrb. XIV, 376. Stems slender, 

 striate. Leaves subooriaceous, oblong to ovate-oblong, cuneate and bi- 

 glandular at the base, the apex sub-acute or shortly and bluntly acumi- 

 nate ; both surfaces smooth, opaque, the lower very pale, the secondary 

 nerves and reticulations very indistinct on both ; maiu-nerves 3 pairs, 

 the lower two pairs bold and ascending, the upper pair less bold 

 and spreading ; length 3-5 to 4*5 in.; breadth 1*75 to 2-25 in.; petiole 



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