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beaked; the beak recurved, -4 to "6 in. long, -4 in. broad, 1- to 2-seeded. 

 Seeds bluntly angled, enclosed in a thin red fleshy aril ; testa crustaceous, 

 sulcate.the furrows pressing inwards, rough, glandular; albumen copious ; 

 cotyledons cordate, '15 in. long ; radicle cylindric. TaherncBmontana 

 pedunmdaris, Wall. Cat. 1575 and in Bot. Eeg. under t. 1273 ;A. DC. 

 Prodr. VIII. 376 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 421 ; Hook, f . M. Br. Ind. III. 647. 

 Kedah : at Langkawi Island, Curtis 2536. Penang : Porter {Wallich 

 1575); Maingay (K.D.) 1060/2; Curtis 790. Peeak: Curtis; Wray 

 1892, 1962, 1975; Scortechini 83, 226, 724; Bidley 9750; King's 

 Collector 846, 1858. Selangoe : Bidley 8555. Malacca : Derry 1014. 



5. Eevatamia cylindeocaepa. King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub 

 reaching 4 to 6 feet in height ; branchlets slender, dichotomous, pale 

 l^rown, smooth. Leaves membranous ; lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, sharply or sometimes bluntly caudate-acuminate at 

 apex, the acumen curved sideways, attenuate at base ; light green 

 above when young, darker when old, paler beneath ; 4 to 7 in. long, 

 1 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, starting 

 at an angle of about 60° to 70' with the midrib, and at once curving 

 upwards to anastomose a little short of the margin ; secondary nerves 

 few ; reticulations inconspicuous ; petiole '25 in. long, slender. Cymes 

 axillary or terminal, single or in pairs, divaricately branched; pe- 

 duncles slender, -5 to 1 in. long ; secondary peduncles as long, dicho- 

 tomously branched ; pedicels slender, -25 to '5 in. long ; bracteoles 

 minute, very caducous ; flowers few in each cyme, waxy white with a 

 yellow centre ; buds rather stoutly clavate, acute at tip. Calyx-tuhe 

 very short ; lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, unequal, -3 to -4 in. 

 long, acute, with large glands inside near the base, midrib prominent. 

 Corolla-tnhe funnel-shaped in bud, cylindric in flower ; dilated above 

 opposite the stamens, 4 to '5 in. long, glabrous on both sm-faces ; lobes 

 oblong, spreading, rather broad, -5 in. long, rounded at top. Anthers 

 linear-acute, '1 in. long ; pollen-grains globose, with projecting bosses. 

 Ovary of 2 carpels, rounded at top ; style slender ; stigma clavate, 

 with a bifid point. Follicles widely divaricate, from 110° to nearly in 

 the same line, cylindric, acute both at base and tip, scarcely recurved, 

 1-5 to 3 in. long, not keeled. Seeds up to 10, ovoid, -3 in. long, sulcate 

 ventrally, enclosed in a fleshy aril ; testa crustaceous, glandular, ribbed, 

 the ribs extending into the copious albumen ; cotyledons cordate ; 

 radicle cylindric. 



Peeak: Wray 158, 1857, 2806, 3117, 4027; Scortechini 144, 438, 

 920, 964 ; King's Collector 1060, 2081, 3006, 10061, 10264. Bindings : 

 Bidley, 7935, 8360, 8631, 10291. 



6. Eevatamia malaccensis. King & Gamble. A slender glabrous 



