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notched on one side, recurved when open, acute at tip. Anthers very 

 small, under '05 in. long ; filaments scarcely any, pubescent. Ovary 

 conoidal ; style slender -05 in. long ; stigma oblong, apiculate ; ovules 

 many. Berry ovoid, 1-75 in. long, 1'25 in. in diam., dehiscing in 2 

 concave valves ; pericarp thick, hard, woody, smooth and yellow with- 

 out. Seeds numerous, black, -35 in. long, -3 in. broad, oblate-globose, 

 deeply grooved at the hilum, about one-third surrounded by an aril 

 consisting of yellow angular corky masses and a tuft of minute net-like 

 fibres ; testa shining, thin, granular ; albumen thick, horny ; cotyledons 

 ovate, obtuse, somewhat cordate, flat, -225 in. long ; radicle slender, 

 •15 in. long. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 393 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 626. 

 Runteria ? atro-viridis, Wall. Cat. 1614 ; A. DC. Prodi-. VIII. 351. 

 Winchia atro-viridis, Kurz For. Fl. II. 170. 



Peeak : on Maxwell's Hill, Scortechini 321 ; at 2,500 to 3,000 feet, 

 King's Collector 6303, 8317. Selangoe : at Batang Barjuntai, Bidley 

 7563 ; at Kent Estate 8557 (flowers white). — Disteib. Tavoy, Mergui. 



We do not quote " Malabar" in the distribution because we think that Chilocarjpus 

 malabaricus, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 175, is probably distinct from C. atro-viridis. 



2. Chilocaepus embelioides, King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing 

 shrub ; branchlets slender, pale dull browoi, almost smooth. Leaves 

 chartaceous ; elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate at apex, narrowed some- 

 what unequally at base ; glabrous on both surfaces and dull, the upper 

 olivaceous when dry ; margins pale, thin, crispate ; 3 to 5 in. long, 

 1'25 to 2 in. broad; midrib slender, prominent on the lower, somewhat 

 impressed on the upper, surface ; main nerves 24 to 26 pairs, very 

 slender, at an angle of 70° with the midrib, straight, meeting close to 

 the margin a slender faint intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves 

 alternate with the main nerves and joining both the intramarginal 

 nerve and midrib, branched recurrently ; reticulations obscure ; petiole 

 •2 to '4 in. long, slender, slightly rugose. Cymes axillary, lax, many- 

 flowered, nearly as long as the leaves ; peduncles slender, 1-5 to 1*75 in. 

 long ; branches trichotomous slender, about 1 in. long ; ultimate cymules 

 subumbellate ; pedicels slender -15 in. long ; bracts very small, ovate, 

 acute, at the bases of the rachis-branches and pedicels ; buds very short, 

 clavate, tip globose. Calyx campanulate, '05 in. long; lobes very small, 

 roimded, with hyaline, ciliate margins. Co?"o//a-tube cylindiic, -1 in. 

 long, slightly constricted at the base and the naked throat, glabrous 

 except for a ring of white villous hairs below the stamens ; lobes broad, 

 ovate-falcate, acute, '05 to ■! in. long. Stamens inserted a little above 

 the middle of the tube ; anthers lanceolate, apiculate ; filaments very 

 short. Ovary conical, attenuated into a short style just reaching the 



