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8. Chilocarpus costatus, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 393 (1856). A 

 stout climbing shrub ; young branches as thick as a goose-quill, shining 

 and purplish-brown when dry, sometimes obtusely angular, nodes 

 swollen. Leaves chartaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly and very 

 obtusely acuminate at apex, attenuate at base or sometimes rounded; 

 both surfaces glabrous, upper shining, when dry the upper greenish- or 

 dull purplish-brown, the lower yellowish-brown ; margins recurved ; 

 4 to 8 in. long, 2 to 3-5 in. broad ; midrib stout, broad above and 

 impressed, sharply angled beneath when dry ; main nerves 12 to 20 

 pairs, nearly parallel, very conspicuous, impressed on the upper, raised 

 on the lower surface, starting at an angle of from 65° to 75° with the 

 midrib and gradually curving to join in a prominent intramarginal 

 slightly looped nerve "05 to '1 in. from the margin ; secondary nerves 

 many, usually alternate with the main nerves but sometimes at irregular 

 angles with the midrib, recurrent from the intramarginal nerve and 

 branching backwards ; reticulations few, oblique, inconspicuous ; petiole 

 •5 to 1 in. long, bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Cymes 

 axillary, puberulous, trichotomous, reaching about 3 in. in length and 

 breadth, many-flowered, apparently whorled; peduncles -5 to 1-5 in. 

 long, stout, flattened ; branch peduncles '3 to •6 in. long, these again 

 branched ; ultimate cymules subumbellate ; pedicels '1 to '15 in. long ; 

 bracts caducous ; bracteoles ovate acuminate, grey-puberulous, the mar- 

 gins hyaline, at the bases of the pedicels ; buds clavate with globose 

 tips, -75 in. long; flowers yellowish. Calyx campanulate, -075 in. long; 

 lobes ovate, rounded, margins hyaline minutely ciliate. Corolla-tvihe 

 very slender, -7 to 1 in. long, dilated a little above the base opposite the 

 stamens, pubescent at the base within, otherwise glabrous ; lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, reaching -5 in. long and about -25 in. broad. 

 Anthers lanceolate, '075 in. long, cells rounded at base ; filaments 

 slender, as long as anthers, villous at base. Ovary ovate, acuminate, 

 compressed, smooth, glabrous; style slender, -1 in. long; stigma ovoid, 

 apiculate. Berry large, ovoid when young, elliptic when ripe, with a 

 smooth boss at the apex, and flattened base ; 2-5 to 3 in. long, 1-5 to 

 2 in. broad ; pericarp thick, orange-yellow, smooth. Seeds embedded 

 in fibrous pulp and half surrounded by a fleshy yellow arillus, oblong- 

 subquadrate, deeply channelled at the hilum ; testa thin, brown ; 

 albumen thick, horny ; cotyledons ovate-orbicular, flat ; radicle short. 

 C. Maingayi, Dyer; Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. III. 627. 



Penang : at Ayer Etam, Curtis 475. Perak : at Sungie Larut, 

 Wray 2428; Scortechini; King's Collector 3261, 5264, 10848. Pahang: 

 Bidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 319 (C. Maingayi). Malacca : 

 Maingay (K.D.) 1045, 1046 ; Curtis 3479. Selangor : Ridley 2726. 



