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4. W. puxnila, Hook. f. ; dwarf, leaves small rigid lanceolate glabrous 

 ..apiculate, corymbs small subcapitate hirsute, corolla glabrous externally, tube 

 equalling the limb, berries several-seeded. 



KHASIA MTS.; Borpane river, alt. 1-1500 ft., Simons, Lobb, J. D. II. $ T. T. 



A rounded erect shrub, a foot or two high, with very woody short crowded 

 '"branches. Leases 1^-2 in., subsessile, pale brown when dry, margin recurved ; petiole 

 and triangular stipules pubescent. Cymes \\ in. diam., hirsute. Calyx-teeth minute. 

 -Ovary-cells 3-4-ovuled. Corolla white, tube and lobes about'-]- in. long. Berries siza 

 of a small pea, shortly pedicelled r crowned by the calyx-limb. Seeds angled. Quito 

 unlike its congeners in its dwarf size, pale brown colour when dry, and the contracted 

 . corymbs. 



* Corolla-tube longer than the lobes. 



5. W. monosperma, W. $ A. Prodr. 401 (Stylocoryiie) ; glabrous, 

 leaves oblanceolate acuminate, corolla glabrous externally, tube much longer 

 than the lobes, berry 1-seeded. Wt. Ic. t. 317. 



TRAVANCORE; at Courtallam, Wight. 



A shrub, olive-brown when dry, branches rather slender. Leaves 4-9 by 1-2 - in., 

 rather thin, narrowed into the short petiole ; stipules triangular. Cymes many- 

 flowered, corymbose, glabrous. Calyx-teeth minute. Corolla-tube in., lobes .\ in. 

 ''Ovary-cells 2-3-ovuled. Berries "white, size of a small cherry" (Wt.). 



6. W. frag ran s, Blame Bijd. 932 (.Stylocoryne) ; branches and leaves 

 glabrous, leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acute, cymes pubescent open 



.many-flowered, corolla-tube very long slender much longer than the lobes, 

 berries many-seeded. Stylocoryne fragrans, DC. Prodr. iv. 377. S. laxiflora, 

 Blume Bijd. 983; DC. I. c. S.lucida, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 541. Ron- 

 deletia lucida, Wall. Cat. 8453. Oeriscus fragrans, Nces in Flora, 1825, 11G. 

 Wahlenbergia fragrans, Blume Cat. Hort. Bait. 13. 



MALACCA and SINGAPORE, Wallich, &c., Main (jay (Kew Distrib. 893). DISTRIB. 

 ^Banca, Java, Borneo. 



A small tree, "sometimes 60 ft. " (Hasskarl), branches 4-angled. Leaves palo 

 brown, 4-6 in., narrowed into the petiole, rather shining above, nerves beneath some- 

 times puberulous ; stipules triangular. Cymes 3-4 in. diam. ; pedicels slender, bracts 

 linear. Calyx-teeth triangular. Corolla-tube 1 in., 5 times as long as the linear- 

 oblong lobes. Berries size of a pea. Seeds angular. 



7. W. costata, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. ii. 203 (Stylocoryne) ; leaves obovate 

 obtuse or subacute glabrous or with midrib beneath and nerve-axils pubescent, 

 <cymes many and dense-flowered densely pubescent, corolla-tube slender pubes- 

 cent much longer than the short lobes. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2791), Maingay (945). DISTRIB. Sumatra, Banea. 



A large tree, branches woody, branchlets tomentose. Leaves 6-9 by 2^-4^ in., 

 dark brown when dry, coriaceous, narrowed into the short petiole. Cymes shortly 

 pedunclecl, 1^-2 in. diam., bracts minute. Calyx-lobes very short, limb deciduous. 

 Corolla-tube in. ; lobes ^ the length of the tube, oblong. Berries size of a pea, 

 many-seeded. I have seen only imperfect fruiting specimens of Miquel's W. costata, 

 which agree perfectly with this. 



8. W. IVZaingayi, IlooJc.f. ; branches leaves beneath and cymes tomen- 

 tose, leaves ovate caudate-acuminate glabrous above, cymes subcapitate, ccrolla- 



.-tiibe slender tomentose much shorter than the lobes, berries many-seeded. 



MALACCA; Mount Ophir, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3081), Maingay (932). 

 A shrub, branches terete. Leaves brown when dry, 3-6 in., coriaceous, base 

 rounded; petiole |- in.; stipules lanceolate, tomentose. Cymes 2-3 in. diam., 



