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inflexed into a large simple lamina, with recurved margin, 
leaves orbicular, concave, flowers urceolate, laciniæ tooth- 
shaped, closely connivent. Coron. folioles dilated simply curv- 
ed, conduplicate carinate. Pollinia oblong, flat, many times 
longerthan the caudicula. Stigma rostrate, rostra cuspitate. 
Follicles flattened and channelled above, also known by the co- 
lour of their flowers. If not D. Rafflesiana, nominatur D. vi- 
ridescens. 
6. Dischidia Rafflesiana. 
Scandens volubilis glabra, carnosa, ascidifere caulibus tere- 
tibus, ascidiis confertis oppositis brevissime pedicellatis ova- 
tis, angulatis rugosis ad pedicellam apertis, collo substran- 
gulato margine oris, inflexa in foramen lamine linguzformis, 
intus atro-purpurea maculis minutissimis albis, radiculos 
ramososin pedicellis axillisque ortas foventibus, fol. distant. ! 
orbicularibus carnosis plus minus apiculatis marginibus subre- 
curvis, nervo medio promicalo. Racemis axillaribus abbrevia- 
tis, foliis brevibus pedunculo brevissime, crasso, minute bracti- 
ato. Pedicellis filiformibus basi membranacea bracteatis pu- 
bescentibus, floribus inconspicuis luteo-viridibus. 
- Cal. 5-sepalus, sepalis ovatis, pubescentibus, submembra- 
naceis, ciliatis. Cor. unceolata fauci subconstricta, limbo 5- 
partito, laciniis lanceolatis carnosis erectis conniventibus, intus 
apicem versus barbatis, pilis simplicibus. 
Corona staminea 5-phylla foliolis lucidis stipitibus carno- 
sis. 2-lobis, lobis membranaceis subconcavis infus productis : 
par quodque hippocrepidiforme, Sulce communicate valde 
prominentis. 
Anth. ovatze, marginibus apicibusque membranaceis, Polli- 
nia erecta oblonga compressa margine diaphana, caudiculis 
brunneis. Stigma apiculata. 
Has. Mergue. In arboribus ndisse parasit. praesert. 
in vetustioribus partibusque mortuis. - 
Corona and Pollinia, see Pl. dT h Fig. VI 
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