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•4 in. long, villous within above the stamens ; lobes -4 to •? in. long, 

 oblong-falcate, obtuse. Anthers cordate-lanceolate, "075 in. long ; fila- 

 ments slender, puberulous, bent close to the back of the connective and 

 there attached to a broad swelling. Ovary hemispheric, top nearly 

 truncate ; style short, thick, ellipsoid ; stigma conical. Berry 4 in. 

 long, " pyriform, abounding in caoutchouc; pericarp thick, leathery; 

 seeds many, naked; cotyledons pink, fleshy" {Maingay). 



Peeak: Ridley 3075; Wray 3773. Dlndings : Curtis. Malacca: 

 Griffith ; Maingay (K.D.) 1049 ; Curtis 3484 ; Hervey ; Cantley 105 ; 

 Goodenough 1785. Singapoke : Bidley 11333. — Distkib. Sumatra 

 (van Bomburgh 469). 



Curtis says that the caoutchouc of this species is of no use. Wray No. 3773 is a 

 specimen in young fruit ; the fruits terminal ! but otherwise like other specimens. 

 The apparently terminal fruits probably arose from the cymes of the uppermost axils, 

 the much enlarged pedicels having absorbed the rest of the small inflorescence or 

 caused it to fall. The Sumatra specimen has a less puberulous inflorescence, but 

 otherwise does not seem to differ. 



8. WiLLUGHBEiA FLAVESCENS, Dyer in Herb. Kew. ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 625 (1882). A slender climbing shrub, all parts glabrous ; 

 bark dark grey, rough, with large eUiptic lenticels ; branchlets dull 

 greyish- or reddish-brown when dry, obtusely angled, the nodes 

 swollen, bases o£ fallen leaves tuberculate. Leaves coriaceous ; 

 elliptic, shortly and bluntly acuminate at apex, rounded or sometimes 

 shortly cuneate at base ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper dark 

 greenish-brown, the under pale reddish-brown when dry ; margins 

 cartilaginous, recurved; 2-5 to 4-5 in. long, 1-25 to 2-25 in. broad; 

 midrib stout, impressed above ; main nerves slender, 16 to 20 pairs, 

 rather irregular in angle and spacing, usually at from 70^ to 80° 

 with the midrib, and curving gently to and along the margin, raised 

 beneath ; secondary nerves many, between the main-nerves and 

 similar to them ; reticulations very oblique, sometimes nearly parallel 

 to the nerv'es, raised beneath ; petiole 4 to '6 in. long, bordered 

 by the decurrent margins of the blade. Cymes axillary, sessile, as 

 long as or up to twice as long as the petioles, dichotomous; branches 

 slender ; pedicels "1 in. long ; bracteoles minute, acute ; buds conoidal at 

 tip, -2 to -3 in. long. Calyx -06 in. long, campanulate, with 5 deep 

 ovate, acute, ciliate lobes. Corolla hypocrateriform ; the tube eUiptic- 

 ovoid -15 in. long, mouth much constricted ; lobes ovate-falcate, acute, 

 recurved in flower, -15 in. long, margins involute. Stamens near the 

 apex of the tube, included, ovate ; filaments short, geniculate. Ovary 

 elliptic-ovoid, glabrous, narrowed into the "075 in. long slender style, 

 which is obconic at top ; stigma small, cyhndric, rounded at tip. 



