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at the base, 1- to 2-ovuled, with a conical, narrow, inflexed stigma. Ripe carpels reddish, 
ovoid, ‘4 to *6 in. long, glabrous, with a single ovoid or 2 plano-conyvex, shining, pale 
brown seeds ; stalks about as long as the carpels, slender. 
Perak,—Scortechini, Wray, King’s Collector. 
Pirate 39. Cyathostemma Wrayi, King. 1, Branch with extra-axillary flowers ; 
2, part of old branch with clustered flowers ; 3, carpels—of natural size; 4, flowery 5, the 
same dissected ; 6, anthers ; 7, ovaries—enlarged. 
4, CyarHosteMMA Hookert, King im Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 61, pé. 2, 10. A 
climber 40 to 80 feet long; all parts, except the inflorescence, quite glabrous. Leaves 
membranous, broadly oblanceolate to oblong or ovate-elliptic, acute or very shortly and 
obtusely acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cuneate ; both surfaces shining, glabrous, 
minutely reticulate ; main nerves 9 or 10 pairs, spreading or ancage curving, inter- 
arching: within the edge; length 5°5 to 7 in., breadth 2°25 to 2°75 in.; petiole °3 in. 
Flowers +25 in. in diam., sub-globose, in extra-axillary or leaf-opposed fascicles or cymes 
of 2 or 3; pedicels slender, puberulous, *3 to ‘4 in. long with 1 or 2 bracteoles. 
Sepals spreading, broadly and obliquely ovate, sub-acute, slightly thickened at the base, 
‘l in, long. Petals concave ; the outer row slightly longer than the sepals but narrower, 
obovate, contracted into a pseudo-claw at the base, sparsely puberulous outside; the 
inner row narrower, thicker and more concave, oblique. Stamens numerous, short, with 
a thick incurved apical process from the connective ; anther-cells dorsal. Ovaries numer- 
ous, oblong, thickened upwards, puberulous; the stigma large, sub-quadrate, slightly 
2-lobed. Ripe carpels numerous, oblong to ovoid, blunt at each end, glabrescent, -75 to 
1:75 in. long and °6 to ‘9 in. in diam.; stalk 1°5 to 2 in., stout. Seeds 6, in a single 
row, compressed, oblong, pale brown, shining. Uvaria parviflora, Hook. fil. § Thoms, 
Fl, Ind. 108°; Fl. Br. Ind. 1. 51. 
Penang,—Pihillips, Curtis No. 1213.  Perak,—sScortechini, Wray, King’s Collector. 
Distrib.—Borneo,— Beccart No, 1811. : : 
For upwards of seventy years this plant had been known only by Phillips’ scanty 
specimens from Penang. In 1887 Mr. Curtis sent flowering specimens of it, together 
with a single ripe carpel from the same island; while copious flowering and fruiting 
specimens were, about the same time, received a Perak. In all its Pe the plant 
is essentially a Cyathostemma. 
Pirate 40. Cyathostemma Hookeri, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe carpels ; 
3, section of carpel to show the single row of seeds—of natural size; 4, flower dissected ; 
5, anthers ; 6, ovaries—enlarged. 
5. CyATHOSTEMMA ACOMINATUM, King im Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 10. 
A climber; branches pale brownish, the youngest slender, dark-coloured, rufous-puberulous. 
Leaves membranous, oblanceolate-oblong, caudate-acuminate, the base acute ; both surfaces 
glabrous, shining and minutely reticulate ; the midrib depressed above a puberulous, 
beneath prominent and minutely muriculate; main nerves 10 to 11 pairs, spreading, 
curved, sub-ascending, prominent beneath, depressed above; length 8 to 9 in., breadth 
2:2 to 2°5 in.; petiole -15 im., tomentose. Cymes of hermaphrodite flowers rufous-pubescert, 
4 to 6 in. long; pedicel about as long as the branches, the latter with numerous 
distichous, oblong, nervose bracts. _ Flowers ‘4 to ‘5 in. in diam., on short pedicels 
