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peduncles very stout, 1-5 to 2-5 in. long ; pedicels thick, curved, about 

 •3 to -6 in. long ; in fruit the non-fruiting pedicels caducous, leaving 

 broad prominent oblong scars ; bracts small, entire, rounded ; flowers 

 scented ; buds clavate, with large obtuse heads, '3 in. in diameter. 

 Calyx-tube short, thick ; lobes ovate, obtuse, •! to '15 in. long, with 

 many small subulate glands in a row at the base within. Corolla-tuhe 

 cylindric, '5 in. long, slightly dilated at two-fifths of the way up, 

 funnel-shaped at the mouth, glabrous on both sides ; lobes overlapping 

 to the left, folded in bud, oblong, obtuse, up to 1 in. long. Stamens 

 inserted at the dilatation ; anthers linear, mucronate, '15 in. long ; 

 pollen-grains globose with small protruded round knobs. Ovary of two 

 separate conical carpels ; style short ; stigma clavate, the apiculus 

 bifid. Follicles orange, 1 to 1*5 in. long, -5 in. broad, falcate, dorsal 

 edge straight, ventral edge much rounded, keels 3 ; beak long, usually 

 hooked. Seeds about 4 to 6, ovoid or rhomboid, enveloped in a scarlet 

 aril, deeply sulcate ventrally ; testa crustaceous, 'glandular, ridged 

 within ; albumen copious. Taherncemontana 'polyneura, Scortechini 

 MS. in Herb. Calc. 



Pekak : at Bujoy Malacca, Scortechini 1867. Malacca : Miller 9. 



A very distinct plant, quite different in texture and appearance to any other 

 herein described, but coming near to Tabernceviontana dichotoma, Eoxb., of S. India 

 and Ceylon. The description is largely after Scortechini. 



Tribe III. — EcHiTiDEiE. 



Subtribe 1. — Paesonsiin^. 



15. Paesonsia, Br. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite. Floiuers small, white, in ter- 

 minal or axillary di- tri-chotomous cymes or thyrses. Calyx 5-partite, 

 eglandular or 5-scaled or minutely many-glandular at the base within. 

 Corolla tubular ; tube short, cylindric or subglobose, naked at the 

 throat ; lobes 5, slightly tmsted, overlapping to the right. Stamens 

 inserted on the tube ; filaments often twisted ; anthers half-exsert, 

 oblong-lanceolate or linear, acute, conniving round the stigma and 

 adhering to it, the cells produced at the base into empty rigid appen- 

 dages. Disk of 5 lobes or scales. Ovary 2-ceUed ; ovules many in 

 each cell ; style filiform, dilated at the top, truncate ; stigma columnar 

 or elongate-conic. Fruit cylindric, of two follicular mericarps, long 

 cohering but at length separating from the two placentas. Seeds linear 

 or oblong, attenuate and comose at the apex ; albumen scanty ; cotyle- 

 dons oblong-linear, flat ; radicle superior. — Disteib. About 12 species, 

 of Tropical Asia, Australia and New Zealand. 



