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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. 
PrarE 174B. Kayea 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. 
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PLATE 175. 
TERNSTREMIA SCORTECHINIT, 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, striate 
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 *5. Flowers dioecious, “6 to 8 in. in diam., peduneulate, axillary, solitary or ` 
in fascicles of 2 to 6; peduncles slender, compressed, 1 to 1۰5 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. in 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. 
Ргате 175. Ternstremia Scortechinii, King. 1, flowering branch; 2, ripe fruits: of natural size ; 9, andrecium 
4, petal; 5, two anthers; 6, young fruit; 7, young seed: enlarged. 
PLATE 176. 
AcTINIDIA Міегеілі, King in Journ. As. Бос. Bengal, for 1890, pt. 2, p. 196. 
Nat. Ord. Ternstremiacee. 
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 
