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Stigma with 4 linear teeth. Unripe fruit ovoid, apiculate, half-enveloped by the accrescent 
sepals. 
Penang: Curtis; Nos. 748 and 805. 
Prate 1748. Жауға Curtisii, King. 1, flowering twig; 2, twig with young fruit: of natural size; 3, flower; 
4, sepal; 5 and 6, petals; 7, stamens; 8, pistil; 9, section of ovary: enlarged. 
PLATE 175. 
TERNSTRAMIA ScomrECHINU, King in Journ. As, Soc. Bengal, for 1890, pt. 2, р. 193. 
Nat. Ord. Ternstremiacee. 
A tree, 20 to 40 feet high; young branches with pale brownish-grey bark, striato 
when dry. Leaves coriaceous, verticellate, drying of a pale green, oblanceolate, the apex 
shortly abruptly and rather bluntly acuminate, narrowed from above the middle to the 
rather stout short petiole, edges entire, under surface rather pale; midrib distinct on 
both surfaces, nerves visible on neither; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1:25 to nearly 2 in.; 
petiole 4 to '9. Flowers dioecious, '6 to ‘8 in. in diam., pedunculate, axillary, solitary or 
in fascicles of 2 to 6; peduncles slender, compressed, 1 to l:5 in. long; the 2 bracteoles 
about :2 in. below the calyx, minute, fugacious. Sepals subequal, fleshy with thin edges, 
rotund, Petals much larger than the sepals, orbicular to reniform, clawed. Stamens in 
the male very numerous; anthers sub-sessile, the connective broad, bearing the 2 cells 
on its edges and produced above them into a broad short truncate process; rudimentary 
ovary flattish, without stigma. Female flowers like the males but with fewer stamens ; 
ovary hemispheric, imperfectly 2-celled; stigmas 2, sub-sessile, flat, foliaceous, each 
divided into 3 or 4 lobes with thick corrugated edges. Fruit a dry ovoid berry with 
coriaceous dark-coloured epicarp, "75 in. long, and :6 in. іп diam., subtended by the 
leathery calyx. Seeds 2, large, broad, horse-shoe-shaped, flattish, '5 in. long. 
Perak, at low elevations; Scortechini, King’s Collector. 
A very distinct species with smaller flowers than the other species of the genus, 
PrarE 175. Ternstremia Scortechinii, King. 1, flowering branch; 2, ripe fruits: of natural size; 3, andrecium 
4, petal; 5, two anthers; 6, young fruit; 7, young seed: enlarged. 
PLATE 176. 
ACTINIDIA MiquELrr, King in Јошт. Аз. Soc, Bengal, for 1890, pt. 2, p. 196. 
Nat. Ord. Ternstremiacec. 
Slender, scandent, 30 to 60 feet long; young branches cylindric, striate, 
glabrous, dark-coloured. Leaves membranous, ovate, sub-acuminate to sub-rotund, 
mucronate, minutely glandular-dentate, the base rounded or slightly cordate; upper 
surface glabrous, rigid, the nerves and midrib minutely pubescent; lower surface pale 
brown when dry, minutely but densely tomentose; nerves about 5 or 6 pairs, the lower 
spreading, the upper sub-erect, prominent beneath as are the midrib and transverse 
