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4. Cyathostemma, Grifith. 
Scandent shrubs. Flowers sub-globose, in di- or tri-chotomous pendulous cymes from 
the old wood (flowers dimorphous in sp. 5). Sepals 3, connate, hirsute. Petals 6, 
2-seriate, short, sub-equal, their bases fleshy, all valvate at the base, the tips imbri- 
cate. Torus flat, margin convex. Stamens many, linear; anthers sub-introrse ; process 
of connective oblique, incurved. Ovaries many; style cylindric, glabrous, notched ; 
ovules many, Ripe carpels oblong-ovoid, many-seeded. 
The petals in this genus are so unmistakably imbricate in wstivation, that I 
remove it from the tribe Unonew to Uvariee, The ripe carpels, moreover, much re- 
semble those of some species of Uvaria. Of the five species described below, three 
are quite new. The first (C. viridiflorum) is the plant upon which Griffith founded the 
genus ; while the fourth has been hitherto referred to Uvaria under the specific name 
U, parviflora. 
Flowers uniform and hermaphrodite. 
Flowers in more or less elongated pendent cymes. 
Leaves oblong-lancevlate or oblanceolate; inner petals contracted at 
the base 1. C. viridiflorum. 
Leaves Bearitballipite " sborate-olongs petal ae ochits wd at 
the base. . . ie 2. C. Scortechinii, 
Flowers in ei Aascisles of 10 to 4, or in oily pairs ; ‘léetis with 
pubescent midribs. 3. C. Wrayi. 
Flowers in 2- or 3- Sop aead: easitlary or Teteopponath fase or 
cymes; leaves quite glabrous . . er ree gee weg tO FaE Li a 
Flowers dimorphous, the females with a fow abortive anthers oe ew «tw & Os acuminatum. 
1. CyYATHOSTEMMA VIRIDIFLORUM, Griff. Notule iv. 707; Je. Pl. iv. ¢ 650. 
Scandent ; the young branches thin, glabrous, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, apiculate; the base slightly narrowed, 
minutely cordate ; both surfaces rather dull; the upper glabrous except the minutely 
tomentose midrib ; the lower darker, puberulous on the midrib and 8 to 10 pairs of 
rather prominent spreading main nerves; length 4°5 to 7°5 im, breadth 1:5 to 2 in.; 
petiole ‘2 in. Cymes dichotomous, on peduncles several inches long, from warty 
tubercles on the older roughly striate branches, few-flowered, corymbose, minutely rusty- 
tomentose, with an oblong bract at each bifurcation and another about the middle of 
each pedicel. Flowers *5 in. in diam, Sepals broadly cordate, spreading or sub-reflexed. 
Petals acute, the base contracted, especially in those of the imner row, coriaceous, 
tomentose. Ovaries tomentose. Ripe carpels stalked, 1 to 1:5 in. long, oblong-ovoid, 
blunt, glabrous; stalk 75 in. Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 57; Kurz For. ZL. Burm, 1. 33; 
King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 8. | 
Eastern Peninsula,—Grigith. Penang,—Muaingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 36, 
A species known by only a few imperfect specimens. According to Griffith, the 
wood of this species resembles that of a Menisperm, Kurz gives this as a native of 
the Andamans; but I have seen no eosin from those islands, 
Ann. Roy, Bot. Garp. Catcutra You. IY. 
