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Berry yellow or greenish -yellow turning to red, ovoid-cordate or nearly 

 globose ; 3 to 4 in. in diam. ; pericarp thick, coriaceous, smooth. Seeds 

 few, large, embedded in pulp, elliptic, about "6 in. long by "4 in. broad ; 

 testa membranous ; cotyledons plano-convex, thick ; radicle minute. 

 Chilocarpus flavescens, Kew Gard. Eeport, 1880, 47. Urnularia flave- 

 scens, Stapf in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2711, p. 2. 



Peeak : King's Collector 7286, 7848. Peovincb Wellesley : 

 Bidley 9389. Malacca : Hervey. Singapokb : Murton 120 ; Eidley 

 6936, 10123 ; Cantley 52. 



We do not propose to separate " Urnularia^' from " Willughbeia.^^ Dr. Stapf has 

 kindly explained that he proposed the new genus under the belief that the seeds were 

 albuminous, which, however, he finds now they are not. The mistake arose from a 

 fruit of another Apocynacea, presumably one-half of a follicle of a species of Rejoua, 

 having been mixed up with the flowering specimens of Urnularia ovatifolia. 



9. WiLLUGHBEiA RUFESCENS, Dyer in Herb. Kew. ; Hook. f. M. Br. 

 Ind. III. 626 (1882). A large climbing shrub, glabrous; branches dark 

 greyish-brown, swollen at the nodes, obtusely angled, rough ; branchlets 

 cinereous-brown when dry, slender. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic-oblong 

 or -lanceolate, very obtusely short-acuminate at apex, cuneate or 

 rounded, often unequally, at base; glabrous on both surfaces, olivaceous- 

 brown and shining above, dull and reddish-brown beneath ; margins 

 recurved ; 2 to 4 in. long, -5 to 1'5 in. broad ; midrib, stout, deeply im- 

 pressed above, raised beneath ; main nerves 20 to 25 or more (the apex 

 ones very close and difficult to count) pairs, at an angle of about 

 75° with the midrib, straight to near the margin where they curve ; 

 secondary nerves many, between the main nerves and similar to them, 

 reticulations oblique ; all faint on the upper, rather thick and distinct 

 on the lower surface ; petiole "2 to -3 in. long. Cymes axillary, sessile, 

 slightly longer than the petioles with few slender short lax few-flowered 

 branches ; bracteoles minute, ovate ; pedicels -2 in. long, slender ; buds 

 linear-oblong, '25 in. long ; flowers yellow. Calyx under •! in. long, 

 deeply lobed ; lobes broadly ovate, subacute, ciliate on the margins. 

 Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube ellipsoid, glabrous, "15 in. long ; lobes 

 narrowly oblong, obtuse, erect when open, -15 in. long, margins incurved. 

 Anthers ovate, apiculate ; filaments geniculate, slender, inserted below 

 the middle of the tube. Ovary broadly ovoid, as long as the calyx ; 

 style short, -06 in. long, ending in an obconic top ; stigma narrow, 

 cylindric. Berry (immature) globose, 1'5 to 2 in. in diam. ; pericarp 

 thick, leathery, smooth. Seeds embedded in pulp. 



Perak : Scortechini. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1092 ; Hervey. 

 Province Wellesley : at Krian, Bidley 9389. Singapore : Bidley 

 3996, 6023, 6047, 6143.— Distrib. Sumatra {Forbes 3232). 



