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densely grey-pilose, reaching -75 to 1 in. in length ; peduncles stout, 

 •25 in. long ; flowers subumbellately crowded ; bracts at the bases of 

 the umbels lanceolate, '15 in. long ; bracteoles smaller, three on each 

 pedicel, which is scarcely •! in. long ; buds clavate, the tip ovate-acute ; 

 flowers yellowish-white (?). Calyx deeply cleft, '15 in. long; lobes 

 ovate-lanceolate, densely pubescent. Gorolla-iwhe cylindric, dilated 

 near the top opposite the stamens, contracted at the mouth which 

 bears inside an annular ring, -4 in. long, pubescent without and below 

 the stamens within ; lobes ovate-cordate, glabrous within, -15 in. long. 

 Anthers elliptic lanceolate, apiculate, '06 in. long ; filaments slender. 

 Ovary (or the thin lobed disk surrounding and attached to it) densely 

 villous ; carpels 2 ; style slender, -25 in. long ; stigma cylindric, with a 

 bifid very short apiculus. Fruit of 1 or 2 pedicellate oblong-ellipsoid 

 drupes, "5 in. long, -35 in. broad, tipped with the persistent base 

 of the style ; pericarp smooth, thin, wrinkled when dry. Seed 1, 

 oblong, conform to the pericarp, furrowed on one side where it is 

 attached to the placenta ; testa membranous ; albumen horny, deeply 

 ruminate in closely packed horizontal lamellae ; cotyledons small, 

 oblong ; radicle long, cylindric. Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. III. 635. 



Peeak : in dense jungle near the top of Gunong Malacca, at 3,500 

 to 4,000 feet. King's Collector 7170. Malacca: on Mount Ophir, 

 Lohh. — DisTEiB. Sumatra, Borneo {Teysmann, Beccari 1685, 2121). 



Lobb's specimen has the leaves somewhat obovate, obtuse and almost emarginate 

 at apex, but otherwise seems to be the same as the Peninsular and Sumatran 

 specimens. 



2. Alyxia lucida. Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 540 

 (1824). A glabrous twining shrub; branches stout dark greyish-brown, 

 sparsely lenticelled ; branchlets quadrangular, grey to reddish-brown, 

 shining. Leaves pergamaceous, opposite or in whorls of three, in young 

 branches of four ; elliptic or obovate, obtuse or bluntly acute at apex, 

 cuneate at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, the upper shining, olive- 

 green when dry, the lower dull and pale ; margins cartilaginous, 

 recurved; 1-75 to 3'5 in. long, 1 to 1*25 in. broad; midrib slender, 

 impressed above, raised beneath ; main nerves 16 to 20 pairs, slender, 

 at 60° to 70° with the midrib, straight to join an intramarginal nerve at 

 •05 in. from the edge or nearer, indistinct on both surfaces, less so on 

 the lower ; secondary nerves many, between and similar to the main 

 nerves, often branched ; reticulations obscure ; petiole -1 to -3 in. long, 

 stout, bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Cymes axillary, 

 trichotomous, corymbosely subumbellate, puberulous, reaching -75 in. 

 long ; peduncles angular, about -2 in. long ; pedicels slender, -1 in. long ; 

 bracts linear-subulate, acute ; bracteole on the pedicel, rounded ; buds 



