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Peeak: on Government Hill and West Hill, Curtis 1040, 1121, 

 3086. 



The same number, " Curtis 1040," is quoted by D. Oliver in Hook. Icon. t. 1758 

 (1888) as the type of Melodinus coriaceus, Oliver, but all our specimens have more or 

 less the imbricated bracteoles of Gliilocarpus, and are destitute of scales in the throat 

 of the corolla, or of lacini£e to its lobes. A comparison of the specimens of Melo- 

 dinus coriaceus in the Kew Herbarium shows clearly that two species have been given 

 the same number, but that the resemblance is superficial only. The real 31. coriaceus 

 has the leaves pale brown, and not black, when dry. 



7. Chilocaepus minutifloeus, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous 

 climbing shrub ; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, obtusely 

 angled, striate, with thin scaly bark, pale when dry ; nodes swollen, 

 joined by a ridge. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 

 shortly obtusely-acuminate at apex, narrowed or almost rounded at 

 base ; upper surface green, lower waxy- white when fresh, both pale 

 greenish-yellow when dry ; margins slightly recurved ; 2 to 2-5 in. long, 

 •75 to 1"25 in. broad ; midrib slender, prominent beneath ; main nerves 

 9 to 12 pairs, at an angle of about 65° with the midrib, straight, joined 

 at about "05 in. from the margin in an obscure intramarginal nerve, 

 faint on both surfaces or sometimes not distinguishable ; secondary 

 nerves present, but, like the reticulations, not easily visible ; petiole 

 slender, -15 to -2 in. long. Cymes axillary, few-flowered, scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the petioles ; peduncles very short, as are the branches and 

 pedicels, which are sometimes enlarged and bear many imbricate 

 bracteoles ; bracts ovate-acute, sheathing ; buds clavate, "15 in. long, 

 the tip globose ; flowers white or yellow. Calyx campanulate, '05 in. 

 long, lobes very small. Corolla-U^he inflated in the middle opposite the 

 stamens, constricted above and below, -1 in. long, glabrous except a 

 ring of hairs under the stamens within ; lobes ovate falcate, acuminate, 

 about -2 in. long. Anthers ovate-lanceolate, '05 in. long, nearly sessile. 

 Ovary ovoid, tapering into a short style with conical tip. Berry on a 

 stout pedicel, narrowly obovoid or pyriform, surmounted by a mamillate 

 apex, splitting into 2 valves marked by slight vertical ridges ; 2 to 

 2-5 in. long, -75 to 1-25 in. broad ; pericarp thick, woody, dull green 

 with specks when fresh, yellowish when dry. Seeds numerous, oblong, 

 angular, -25 in. long, embedded in pulp and partly enclosed in a papery 

 aril, sulcate at the hilum ; testa granular, dark brown ; albumen thin, 

 fleshy ; cotyledons ovate. 



Peeak : King's Collector 5368, 5494, 7550, in dense jungle. 



No. 5368 has broader leaves than the rest and pedicels with imbricating brac- 

 teoles, which the others only show a tendency to, but we see no reason to keep it 

 separate. 



