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tab. 1089, ill wliicli lie quoted Korthals's original and Borneo, 

 Sumatra and Malacca as its native places. A siiort description of the 

 species was afterwai-ds given by Hookku in Hook. Flora indica III 

 (1885) especially to distinguish this species from C. (jrvifitlul. A little 

 more detailed was King in King and Gamble, Flora of the Mai. 

 Peninsula (1903). 



The species however had not escaped the attention of either 

 Wallich or Blume. The former iinblished it in 1828 mistakenly as 

 Stylocoryne macrophj/lla {= Webera uuicrophi/lia Roxb.), the latter 

 took it for a new species of the same genus and gave a brief 

 diagnosis of it in Blume, Bijdragen (1826), as Stylocoryne tomen- 

 tosa, while Miquel gave a somewhat fuller description of the same 

 species, gathered by Zollinger in Tjikoja in Java (number and date 

 unknown), in 1856 in Fl. Ind. bat., as Stylocoryne ovata Miquel. 

 A third species of this genus, in order of time of discovery, is the 

 Coptosapelta Hammil (subgenus Lindeniopsis) I previously discussed. 

 It was gathered by Ham in Billiton in 1907. At about the same 

 time a fourth species was collected in the Philippine Islands and, 

 by E. D. Merkil, described as Randid ohiciformis and classed with 

 the right genus by Elmer in 1912 (in Pliilippine Leaflets). A fifth 

 species, already gathered by H. 0. Forbes in British New-Guinea in 

 1885 — 86, was described by Wernham in 1917 (in Journ. of Botany). 

 He classed it however with the genus I'urenna Gaertn. {= Styloco- 

 ryne Wight et Aknott). Besides I found two Borneo species unde- 

 scribed in the Herbaria at Leyden and Berlin and three of New- 

 Guinea, while finally an eleventh species was discovered, gathered 

 bij the army surgeon Janowsky at the "Geelvinkbaai" in 1910. 



^ 3. Habit. Except the deviating species C. Hammil, above 

 mentioned, a half-climbing shrub, all Coptosapelta-species hitherto 

 known are lianes. To all of them the excellent description by 

 Elmer of C'. olaciformis (Phil. Leaflets V. p. 1856) is mainly appli- 

 cable: "A looping treeelimber; stem two inches thick, very irregular, 

 heavylooping, numerously branched toward the top and forming 

 hanging masses; leaves coriaceous, descending, curved upon the 

 upper deeper green surface, apex recurved ; inflorescence from the 

 longer samewhat drooping branches, erect. 



Of the species, gathered in German New-Guinea by Ledermann, 

 is twice given "Liane rait beindickem Stamni", once "Liane init 

 armdickem Stamm". For C. Grij/ït/iü from Malacca as well as for 

 the oldest species C.jiavescens is given "Liane", to which King's 

 native collector adds: "A handsome creeper, 30 — 50 ft. high". The 



