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A large climbing shrub ; branchlets as thick as a swan's-quill, dark 

 reddish-brown, rough, uppermost internodes flattened or angled and 

 with vertical lines ; nodes raised and with a slight ridge. Leaves 

 coriaceous ; elliptic or obovate or oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse or very 

 slightly acute at apex, cuneate at base ; upper surface olivaceous-brown, 

 shining, lower much paler and dull, grey when dry ; margins recurved ; 

 3 to 5 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib prominent, impressed above, 

 raised beneath ; main nerves 13 to 17 pairs, at about 60° to 70° with 

 the midrib, nearly straight to join an obscure intramarginal nerve ; 

 secondary nerves recurrent, branching into reticulations, all fairly dis- 

 tinct on the upper, indistinct on the lower surface ; petiole "3 to -5 in. 

 long, channelled above. Cymes axillary, sessile, as long as or slightly 

 longer than the petioles, many-flowered ; rachis angular ; bracteoles 

 ovate, acute, ciliate ; pedicels stout, -05 in. long, much enlarged in fruit ; 

 buds clavate, with globose tip, "25 in. long. Calyx -05 to '075 in. long ; 

 lobes half the length, ovate, acute, ciliate. Corolla-twhe cylindric, con- 

 stricted at the mouth and near the base, dilated between, opposite the 

 stamens, pubescent within in a ring below the stamens, glabrous with- 

 out, mouth furnished with 5 2-lobulate fleshy appendages which nearly 

 close it ; lobes ovate, falcate, very oblique, the tips fimbriate-dentate 

 turned to the right. Anthers near the top of the tube, sagittate, apicu- 

 late, "06 in. long; filaments short. Ovary globose, style slender; stigma 

 conical, with a short bifid apiculus, very gummy. Berry ovoid or 

 globose, 1'5 to 2-5 in. in diam. ; pericarp yellowish, shining, tubercular. 

 Seeds .many, of irregular shapes, usually ovate pyriform ; testa granular, 

 rugose, much pitted ; albumen waxy, deeply pitted by the ridges of the 

 testa; cotyledons small, oblong, -125 in. long; radicle cylindrical, -25 in. 

 long. Alyxia ? coriacea, Wall. Cat. 9065, and in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey & Wall. II. 540 ; Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. III. 635. Hunteria ? 

 coriacea, Wall. Cat. 1610. 



Penang: WalUch 1610, 9065; at Chalet, 1000 feet, Curtis 1040. 

 Perak : open jungle near Larut, King's Collector 7499 ; Waterfall Hill, 

 Wray 2074. 



Tribe II.— Plumeeie^. 



Sub tribe 1. — Eauwolfiin^. 



5. Alyxia, Br. 



Shrubs, sometimes scandent, usually glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, 

 in verticils of 3 to 4, rarely opposite ; the nerves more or less faint. 

 Floioers rather small, in small axillary or terminal cymes. Calyx short, 

 4- to 5-partite, eglandular within. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube 

 cylindric, slightly expanded opposite the stamens, throat naked ; 



