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Stamens oblong or cuneate; connective truncate or produced; anther-cells dorsal. Torus 
flat or convex. Ovaries few or many; style oblong or columnar; ovules 2, erect, 
collateral. Ripe carpels berried. Distrib. —Tropical Africa and Béstam Asia ; described 
species. about 82. 
This genus is at once distinguished by the curiously hooked flow er-peduncles. The 
petals are thick and mostly narrow, concave and closely connivent at the base, while 
the limb is spreading. The habit of most of the species is scandent. Besides those 
described below, there are, in the Calcutta Herbarium, imperfect materials of five 
undescribed species from Perak, and of one from the Andaman Islands. 
Petals lanceolate to elliptic. 
Flowers less than 1 in. long. 
Petals very fleshy, broadly elliptic, blunt é . : : - IL. A. grandifolin. 
Petals coriaceous, oblong-oblanceolate, blunt . ‘ ; © 2 A. Kursii. 
Petals coriaceous, broadly lanceolate, acuminate . . , » 8. A. Scortechinii. 
Flowers about 1 in. long. 
Petals slightly fleshy, all elliptic-oblong, obtuse. ; 4. A. pleurocarpus. 
Petals coriaceous, the outer ovate-lanceolate, the inner feoneclies 
or linear . ‘ : . ; ; ; : ; j . oO A. venustus. 
Flowers more than 1 in. long. 
Leaves elliptic to oblong, sir or ee and wee mucronate, 
coriaceous . : ‘ ~ 6. A. crassifolius. 
Leaves oblong, rrcnitiate, coriaceous 7. A. oblongus. 
Leaves broadly lanceolate or Sinncsolits, Tie or otal 
acuminate ; carpels harshly tomentose, rugulose : : 8. A. Zeylanicus. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate. 
Leaves shortly caudate-acuminate ; flower nearly 2 in. long . 9. A. Lowianus. 
Leaves shortly acuminate ; flower 1-25 to 1°5 in. long ; ro 
obovoid . 10. A. odoratissimus. 
Leaves shortly aiiienite’ dope, 1:5 s ot 5 in. Nhe ; ripe 
carpels narrowly elliptic, tapering to both ends, glabrous . 11. 4. orycarpus. 
Limb of petals linear, sub-triquetrous, cylindric or sub-clavate. 
Petals thickly coriaceous, linear, blunt, erie aera : -  « 12. A. speciogus. 
Petals linear-oblong, obtuse (glabrous?) erp secie eS el Matava. 
Petals narrowly linear, tomentose . 14, A. caudatus. 
Petals fleshy, the outer 3 flattened, the 3 inner 3 cine trigutrou . 15. A. gracilis. 
Petals fleshy, the limb cylindric to clavate. ; - 16. A, suaveolens. 
Petals fleshy, the limb subulate, sub-triquetrons . . . .  « 17. A. burmanicus. 
Met 18. A. costatus. 
Imperfectly known species . ‘ ; : ; Se ae io. Wray. 
1. ARTABOTRYS GRANDIFO tus, King in Journ, As. Soc. Bengal, 61, pt. 2, 31. A 
powerful creeper 60 to 80 feet long; young branches stout, pale, striate, glabrous. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, large, minutely pellucid-punctate, pale yellowish-green when 
dry, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-obovate; the apex broad, obtuse or abruptly sub-acute; 
the base cuneate; both surfaces glabrous, distinctly reticulate; the upper shining, the 
