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and forms a cone over the bud. Cymes from the penultimate whorl of 

 the branchlets ; peduncles 2 to 5 in. long, slender ; branches umbellately 

 whorled ; secondary peduncles slender, -75 to 1 in. long ; pedicels very 

 slender, about -2 to "3 in. long ; bracts leafy, orbicular, petioled, 

 caducous ; bracteoles very small, triangular ; flowers white ; buds 

 linear-oblong. Ga/^.r-tube adnate to the lower part of the ovaiy ; lobes 

 orbicular, rounded or sometimes emarginate, glabrous, '05 in. long. 

 Corolla salver-shaped ; tube urceolate, ribl^ed without, 'OTo in. long, 

 glabrous, except a ring of refiexed hairs below the insertion of the 

 filaments ; lobes oblong, rather narrow^ in bud, broad in flow^er, reaching 

 •2 in. in length and -1 in. in breadth. Ovary pubescent on top ; stigma 

 sessile, bilobed. Fruit not kno■v^^l. 



Perak: Wray 541; King's Collector 7852 (or 4?). Singapoee : 

 Murton ; Burhidge ; Cantley 226 ; Ridley ; Hullett 343. Vern. name, 

 " Kayu (wood) Jelutong" (Wray). 



13. HOLAERHENA, Br. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, usually membranous, glabrous or 

 pubescent, penninerved. Floivers white, in terminal or axillary or sub- 

 axillary coryml^ose cymes. Calyx 5-fid or 5-partite ; lobes narrow, 

 usually glandular at the base on one or both sides. Corolla hypo- 

 crateriform ; tube slender, cylindric, slightly dilated opposite the 

 stamens ; the throat contracted, naked ; lobes 5, oblong, overlapping to 

 the right. Stamens included in the tube near the base ; anthers 

 lanceolate mucronate ; cells rounded at the base ; filaments short, 

 slender. Disk none. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels ; style shortly fili- 

 form ; stigma below the anthers oblong-fusiform, tip entire or bifid ; 

 ovules many in each carpel. Fruit of 2 elongate, terete, follicular 

 mericarps. Seeds oblong or linear, concave inside, the funicle in the 

 concavity ; tipped with a deciduous coma of slender hairs ; albumen 

 scanty; cotyledons broad, complicate; radicle short.— Disteib. Species 

 8 ; 5 in tropical Africa, 3 in India and Malaya. 



Leaves over 4 in. long and 2 in. broad, membranous, main 



nerves irregular; follicles 10 to loin, long; cymes broad ]. H. antidysenterica. 



Leaves under 4 in. long and 2 in. broad, chartaceous, main 



nerves regular ; follicles 6 in. long ; cymes narrow . . 2. H. Curtisii. 



1. HoLAEEHENA ANTIDYSENTERICA, Wall. Cat. 1672 (1828). A small 

 tree, glabrous or pubescent; the branchlets slender, lenticellate. Leaves 

 membranous, variable ; ovate or ovate-oblong to elliptic, obtusely 

 acuminate at apex, rounded or attenuate or cuneate often unequaUy 

 at base ; glabrous above, glabrous or more or less pubescent beneath ; 



