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glabrous; the nodes slightly swollen, ridged. Leaves chartaceous, 

 opposite or in whorls of 3 to 4 ; lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, obtusely rather long-acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; 

 both surfaces glabrous, green when dry, the lower shghtly paler and 

 dull ; margins very slightly recurved, thinly cartilaginous ; 2-5 to 5 in. 

 long, -75 to I'O in. broad; midrib slender but prominent, impressed 

 above, raised beneath ; main nerves very numerous, 27 to 30 pairs, at 

 an angle of about 80° with the midrib, slender, straight to join a slender 

 intramarginal nerve less than -05 in. from the edge, difficult to distin- 

 guish from the very numerous, often branching, secondary nerves ; 

 reticulations irregular, all nerves rather faint on the upper, very obscure 

 on the lower surface ; petiole "05 to "1 in. long, bordered by the 

 decurrent, usually connivent margins of the blade. Cymes axillary, 

 slender, lax, glabrous, 3- to 5-fiowered, reaching in all about 1 in. in 

 length ; peduncles -25 in. long ; pedicels very slender, -1 to '15 in. ; 

 bracts or linear, leafy, caducous ; buds clavate, -S in. long, tip ovate ; 

 flowers white. Calyx shortly campanulate, deeply 5-lobed ; lobes 

 ovate-acute, spreading, -1 in. long. CoroZZa-tube cylindrie, 4 to -6 in. 

 long, slightly dilated near the top opposite the stamens, contracted at 

 the throat, which is annulate within, glabrous except the upper part 

 within ; lobes ovate-cordate, '15 to -2 in. long, recurved. Anthers 

 lanceolate, rounded at base ; filaments short, slender. Disk undulately 

 5-lobed, white- villous, enclosing the ovar}^ Ovary of 2 rounded 

 glabrous carpels ; style very slender ; stigma globose, with a bifid 

 apiculus. Fruit of 1 or 2 ellipsoid drupes on very short pedicels, each 

 drupe 4 to '5 in. long and "3 in. broad, grooved on one side opposite 

 the placenta ; pericarp thin, almost membranous. Seed 1, conform to 

 the drupe ; testa membranous ; albumen horny, deeply ruminate ; coty- 

 ledons oblong, -15 in. long ; radicle stout, -1 in. long, the base oblique. 

 A. stellata, Wall. Cat. 1604 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 636 {jiot of 

 Eoem. and Sch.). Ciynopogon stellatum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 XL VI. ii. 251, and For. Fl. II. 176 {not of Labill.). 



Penang : Wallich 1604. Peeak : at Gunong Iras, 4,000 feet, Wray 

 4165 ; on Larut Peak, 3,000 to 4,000 feet, Kings Collector 2124; Scorte- 

 chini. Pahang : at Kluang Terbang, W. D. Barnes 10898. — Disteib. 

 Sumatra {Forbes 2268 ; on Mount Dempo, at 4,000 to 5,000 feet, 2256) ; 

 Java {Forbes 1043). 



On following up the suggestion made in the Fl. Br. Ind. that this plant is not 

 identical with the Polynesian A.stellatu, we feel bound to agree, and consider it best to 

 give it a new name. 



7. Alyxia Scobtechinii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing shrub ; 

 young branches thinner than a goose-quill, pale brown, shining, angled. 



