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buds clavate, '3 to 4 in. long, tip ovate. Calyx campanulate, 1 in. 

 long ; lobes 5, linear-lanceolate, pubescent. C'oro/Za-tube cylindric, 

 dilated near the top opposite the stamens, contracted at the throat 

 which is annulate within, glabrous outside, pubescent within, 4 in. 

 long ; lobes ovate, broadly obtuse, recurved, -125 in. long. Anthers 

 narrowly ovate ; filaments short, slender. Dish none or so appressed 

 to the ovary as to be indistinguishable, white-villous. Ovary of 2 

 rounded carpels ; style very slender, -3 in. long ; stigma capitate. 

 Fruit of 2 or 1 ellipsoid, long- (up to 4 in.) pedicelled drupes, often 

 2-seeded by superposition ; each drupe 4 to 'b in. long, -3 in. broad ; 

 pericarp ribbed, furrowed on one side opposite the placenta. Seed 

 conform to the drupe ; testa membranous, separated ; albumen deeply 

 ruminate in horizontal lamellae. 



Malacca : Griffith. Singapoee : at Sungei Moral, Bidley 4427, 

 5659. — -DiSTEiB. Burma (Tenasserim, Wallich 1606). 



Eidley's specimens show smaller leaves than those of the type, of which there is 

 only one specimen, viz. in the Wallichian Herbarium at the Linnean Society, but the 

 shape and nervation agree, as does the bark of the twigs. The Wallichian specimen 

 and Griffith's being in fruit only, the description of the flowers is taken from Eidley's. 



4. Alyxia oleifolia. King & Gamble, n. sp. A small climbing or 

 epiphytic shrub ; branchlets rather thick, boldly angled, with smooth 

 pale brown bark, minutely rugose and puberulous ; nodes swollen and 

 ridged. Leaves thickly coriaceous, opposite or in whorls of three ; 

 elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate sometimes almost rhomboid, acute at apex 

 or slightly blunt-acuminate, narrowed at base ; upper surface shining, 

 dark olivaceous, lower surface dull yellowish- oUvaceous, both surfaces 

 glabrous, lower sometimes puncticulate ; margins much recurved when 

 dry ; 1-5 to 2-5 in. long, '75 to 1-25 in. broad ; midrib very stout and 

 broad, much impressed above and raised beneath ; main nerves 10 

 to 12 pairs, at right angles to the midrib, often forked, depressed 

 above, invisible beneath ; secondary nerves many, very obscure ; reticu- 

 lations invisible ; petiole stout, 45 to "25 in. long, wrinkled, bordered 

 by the decurrent margins of the blade. Cymes subterminal and axillary, 

 reaching about 1 in. in length, glabrous, few-flowered ; peduncles -3 to 

 •5 in. long, angular, as are the branches ; pedicels short ; bracteoles 

 linear-subulate, similar to the calyx-lobes ; buds clavate, 4 to -5 in. 

 long, tip ovate. Calyx campanulate, deeply 5-lobed; lobes Hnear- 

 subulate, 4 in. long, ciUate. Corolla-tuhe cyHndric, slightly dilated 

 opposite the stamens, contracted at the mouth which is annulate 

 within, glabrous except slight pubescence below the stamens within ; 

 lobes ovate, obtuse, erect or slightly recurved, 45 in. long. Anthers 



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