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3. Melodinus mickanthus, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. III. 629 (1882). 

 A climbing shrub (apparently) ; branchlets rather slender, terete, with 

 nearly black bark, uppermost somewhat angular. Leaves chartaceous ; 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate at apex, attenuate at base ; 

 smooth and shining and dark reddish-brown on both surfaces when 

 dry, the lower rather paler than the upper ; margins recurved, slightly 

 undulate ; 3 to 6 inches long, 1 to 2-25 in. broad ; midrib slender and 

 impressed above, more conspicuous and raised beneath ; main neiTes 

 10 to 15 pairs, slender, remote, at an angle of from 50° to 60° with the 

 midrib, and ciu'ving slightly upward to an obsciu'e intramarginal nen'e 

 just within the edge, impressed above; secondary nerves few; reticula- 

 tions transverse, obHque ; petiole '15 to '25 in. long, slender. Cymes 

 many-flowered, axillaiy, trichotomous, about -5 in. long; peduncles "2 in. 

 long, rachis angular ; bracts very small, ovate-acute, with ciliate 

 hyaUne tips ; pedicels '05 to "075 in. long, with two bracteoles near the 

 base of the calyx; buds clavate, tip conical-globose, '15 in. long. Calyx 

 •075 in. long ; tube about one-thu'd of length ; lobes ovate, rounded. 

 Corolla-tixhe cylindric, dilated a little above the middle, constricted 

 above and below, '125 in. long, pubescent within in a ring below the 

 stamens ; lobes short, unequally obtusely 2-lobed, twisted to the right ; 

 the base furnished with fleshy bifid scales closing the mouth. Anthers 

 lanceolate, long-apiculate, "05 in. long ; filaments very short. Ovary 

 globose ; style slender ; stigma conical, with a short bifid apiculus. 

 Fruit not seen. 



Penang: road to Sungie Penang, Curtis 1053. Malacca: Maingay 

 (KD.) 1090. 



4. Melodinus citrifoemis. King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender glabrous 

 climbing shrub ; yoim^g branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, dull 

 brown when dry, with elongate lenticels. Leaves chartaceous ; oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtusely and often obhquely caudate-acuminate at apex, 

 cuneate at base ; both sm'faces glabrous, dull ohvaceous-brown when 

 dry ; margin slightly crispate ; 3 to 4 in. long, 1 to 1'25 in. broad ; 

 midrib slender ; main nerves 18 to 22 pairs, at rather irregular angles 

 but usually at about 70° with the midrib, fairly straight, meeting an 

 intramarginal nerve at less than -05 in. from the margin, faint on both 

 surfaces when dry ; secondary nerves many, irregular, alternate with 

 the main nerves, recurrent and forked to form the inconspicuous 

 reticulations; petiole -25 in. long. C'^nie.s axillary, few-flowered, scarcely 

 longer than the petiole ; peduncle and pedicels very short, with many 

 ovate obtuse bracteoles, which, however, scarcely imbricate; buds cla- 

 vate, -2 in. long, tip globose; flowers hght yeUow. Calyx -05 in. long, 

 campanulate; lobes very short, obtuse, hyahne on the margins. Corolla- 



