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52. Diplycosia erythrina, King and Gamble is Vaccinium 



erythrimim. Hook, fil., Bot. Mag. t. 5688. 



It is not a Diplycosia but a Vaccinium closely allied 

 ir not identical with V. Waringiaefolium of Sumatra and 

 Java. Wray's Perak specimen at Kew is very incomplete. 

 *' Gunong Bubu. Stunted tree, fruit claret-coloured 3816." 

 It is possible it may be Vaccinium erythrinum which does 

 have a few solitary axillary flowers as this does, besides 

 the long showy terminal racemes, which are missing in 

 Wray's specimen, I am however, not at all certain of its 

 identity. 



APOCYNACEAE. 



53. Melodinus cymosus, sp. nov. 



Leaves thin, coriaceous chartaceous, elliptic abruptly 

 blunt cuspidate base, shortly cuneate, nerves about 40 pairs, 

 very slender parallel, secondary nerves as prominent as 

 main nerves 4-25 in. long, 2 in. wide, petiole -6 in. long. 

 Cymes lax, few flowered, spreading, peduncle -5 in. long, 

 cyme '75 in. long. Bracts minute lanceolate acute, pedicels 

 •12 in. long. Flowers -25 in. long, dull yellow. Calyx- 

 lobes 5 rounded. Corolla tube dilate at base, narrowed 

 upwards lobes ovate 5, entire. Scales oblong forked. 

 Anthers small elliptic with a short apiculus. Style short 

 and stout. 



Malacca. Selangor forest (Burkill 789) 



" Flowers dull yellow, face in a variety of ways, found 

 open at midday, April 7, 1915. 



Distinct in its lax subterminal cymes. The flowers 

 were in a poor condition, every one I examined having been 

 infested by a dipterous larva, but I cannot find anything like 

 it. 



ASCLEPIADACEAE. 



54. Dischidia viridiflora, sp. nov. 



Long slender creeping glabrous plant rooting at distant 

 points. Leaves fleshy lanceolate acuminate blunt base 

 narrow, nerves invisible, -75 in. long, '25 in. wide, petiole 

 •1 in. long. Peduncle -15 in. long, raceme •! in. long. 

 Flower -15 in. long, pedicel very short. Sepals very short 

 lanceolate linear blunt. Corolla flask-shaped, base wide 

 gradually narrowed to the tip, green turning pink, glabrous 

 within, lobes short, subacute. Corona 0. Staminal column 

 stout, wings rather large coriaceous yellowish. 



Kelantan : Chaning. 



As in D. parviflora, Ridl., I am quite unable to see any 

 trace of the corona. 



55. Dischidia ericaeflora, sp. nov. 



Long climber with internodes over 4 in. long. Leaves 

 fleshy lanceolate or ovate lanceolate acuminate blunt, 

 base round nerves faint 2 pairs from the base, 



