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obtuse, ciliate. Corolla-tuhe cylindric, dilated in the middle opposite 

 the stamens, "2 in. long; lobes as long as or slightly longer than the tube, 

 linear-oblong, margins sometimes incurved, glabrous. Anthers ovate, 

 acute, -03 in. long; filaments slender, short. Ovary ovoid, acute; style 

 short ; stigma ovate-conical with a bifid tip. Berry ovoid or pyriform, 

 orange-yellow, 3 to 4 in. long, 2 to 2-5 in. broad ; pericarp thick. Seeds 

 embedded in pulp, red, "5 in. long or longer, elliptic-oblong, plano- 

 concave ; testa membranous ; cotyledons thick. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 390 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 624 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2344 ; Stapf in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, IV. 207. W. Burbidgei, Dyer in Kew Gard. 

 Eep. 1880, 44, 46. 



Kedah : on Lankawi Island, C'zt/'^is. Penang : Curtis 1500; Bid ley 

 9468. Peeak: Scortechini 651, 2120; Wray 5, 594, 3208, 4176; Kincfs 

 Collector 6663, 10050, 10854. Malacca: Griffith; Dernj 101; Hervey; 

 Irving 228 ; Curtis 3476. Singapoee : Murton 58 ; Cantley 95 ; Bidley 

 4421, 4431, 5713, 6522.— Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo {Beccari 2273; 

 Bidley 9055, &c.). 



This species is with difldculty distinguished from W. coriacea, but its leaves are 

 less coriaceous, and the main-nerves are usually closer, and are slender and sharp 

 instead of being broad and flattened. The fruit is edible, and the stems give a kind of 

 gutta-percha or rubber (Curtis). Curtis's specimens bear the Malay names " Gutta 

 Garoo," " Gutta Garok,"' " Getab Ujol," " Getah greep betina." The Fl. Br. Ind. 

 gives " Gutta Singgarip," after Murton. As Stapf remarks in Hook. Ic. t. 23-44, the 

 Kew material shows that, in Borneo especially, there are varieties locally known by 

 different names, and differing chiefly in the fruit, which ought to be studied on 

 the spot. 



King's Collector 7729 from Gunong Bndo, Perak, at 500 to 800 ft., seems to be a 

 large-leaved variety of this species. The leaves reach 7 in. in length and 3-5 in. in 

 breadth ; when diy they are greenish on the upper and shining brown on the lower 

 surface. The flowers are in sessile cymes, and the corolla has oblong blunt lobes. 



6. Willughbeia martabanica, Wall. Cat. 1619 (1827), and PL As. 

 Ear. III. 45, t. 272 (1832). A large glabrous climbing shrub; branches 

 stout, dark browm ; branchlets dark brown, lenticellate ; tendrils long, 

 branched. Leaves thinly chartaceous ; oblong or ovate-oblong, or 

 ovate-lanceolate, or obovate, shortly, blimtly and abruptly acuminate at 

 the rounded apex, or with a short broad obtuse or emarginate point, 

 acute or cuneate at base ; both surfaces shining, the lower paler ; 

 margins reciirved, undulate ; 3 to 10 in. long, 1-25 to 3-5 in. broad ; 

 midrib stout, slightly channelled above, raised beneath ; main nerves 

 very many, 20 to 26 pairs more or less, parallel, at an angle of from 70° 

 (middle) to nearly 90^ (ends) with the midiib, straight to near the edge 

 and then rather suddenly cmrving and anastomosing ; secondary nerves 

 very many, between and often difficult to distinguish from the main- 



