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‚РГАТЕ. 58. 
54, HEPTAPLEURUM RIDLEYI King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng, lxvii. 9. 54 (1898). 
Natural order Araliacez. 
A scandent shrub, young branches stout, glabrous; leaves digitate, common-petiole 
terete, glabrous, 12—24 cm. long, leaflets 5, very coriaceous, oblong, oblong-elliptic or 
oblanceolate-oblong, acute, slightly narrowed at the base; the edges entire, very slightly 
revolute when dry; both surfaces glabrous, the reticulations faint when dry; main-nerves 
very slightly prominent on the lower surface, about 8 pairs, spreading, the intermediate 
nerves almost as conspicuous; length 10—16 cm., width 5—7 cn., petiolules unequal, 2—6 em. 
long; panicle terminal, glabrous, 12—15 cm. long, with several spreading branches; the 
branchlets few, about 1°25 cm. long, each bearing ап umbel of 10—20 globular flowers 
4 mm. in diam.; calyz-tube short, wide-campanulate, the limb narrowed and truncate ; 
petals 5, elliptic, glabrous; ий ovoid, somewhat succulent, smooth, faintly 6-ridged, 
6 mm. long, 6-celled. 
Maayan PENINSULA : Singapore ; Ridley 6336 ! 
PLATE 52.—Heptapleurum Ridleyi King. 1, fruiting branch from Singapore, —of natural size ; 2, 
fruit; 3, fruit, cut transversely; 4, seed in situ; 5, seed removed, 
G. Ki 
PLATE 54. 
55. оши SIMPLEX King їп Journ. As, Soc. Beng. lxvii. 2. 60 (1898). 
Natural order Araliacez, 
A фу 6—8 ft. high, deciduously rufous-pubescent towards the apex, prickly 
near the: base; leaves бай, elliptic, coriaceous, tapering gradually to the shortly 
acuminate apex, not narrowed to the slightly cordate base, both surfaces with minute, 
scattered, rusty, stellate hairs ; length 2—4 dm., breadth 1—2 dm., petiole 1°25—2-5 dm., 
terete, expanded at the base into a short sheath with 2 minute stipules on its inner 
surface ; inflorescence a terminal, shortly branched, compound  umbel; lowers herma- 
phrodite, buds 9% mm, across, conical; pedicels 1— 1:25 cm. long, slender, rusty- 
pubescent, 10--20 in each umbel; calyz slightly rusty-pubescent, tube narrowly campan- 
ulate, limb with 5 small, spreading teeth; petıls 5, glabrous, calyptrate, their edges 
slightly infoldel, valvate below, slightly imbricate near the apex, the midribs prom- 
inent on the inner surface ; stamens 5, alternate with the petals; the anthers versa- 
tile, with linear, separate cells each united by its middle to the tip of the short, straight 
filament ; disk large, fleshy, convex, covering the whole of the apex of the ovary, 
slightly 5-lobel; styles united to form a short thick column without any stigmatic 
enlargement; ovary I-ce'led with 2 parallel, pendulus ovules; fruit 2-celled by form- 
ation of a false dissepiment, elliptic-globose, subglabrous, 5 mm. long, crowned by 
calyx and style, 2-seeded ; seeds compressed. ١ 
MALAYAN PENINsULA: Perak, at Ulu Kerling; Kunstler / 
Prate 54.—Wardenia simplex King. 1, fruiting twig; 2, fruit, ош obliquely ; 3, the some 
cut transversely ; 4, seed; 5, the same іп vertical section. 
G. K. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. Carc, Vor. IX. 
