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long, ending in very long, up to 4 in. or more, slender tails ; corona- 

 scales alternate with the lobes, cleft nearly to the base, divisions linear- 

 falcate on a broad base -2 to '25 in. long. Anthers pubescent on the 

 back ; tips produced in a very long, slender bristle ; filaments broad, 

 decurrent within the tube. Ovary glabrous ; style stout, upper part 

 rugose ; stigma with a reflexed fringe. Follicles very large, divergent, 

 about 8 in. long by 2 in. broad, broadest at the base wdiere united, 

 tapering to a broad rounded point. Seeds compressed, fusiform, •? in. 

 long, produced in a long beak, the upper part of which, about 1 in. 

 long, is furnished with a brush-like coma of white silky hairs, 1 in. long 

 or more ; testa thin, dark brown ; albumen very thin ; cotyledons 

 oblong, somewhat auricled at base, 4 in. long,- 15 in. broad; radicle 

 cylindric, -25 in. long. A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 417 ; Bl. Bijdr. 1044 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 441 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 655. 5'. Horsfieldianus, 

 Miq. I. c. 4:4:2. S. scandens, Eoem. & Sch. Syst. IV. 412. S. longi- 

 caudatus and S. Griffithii, Wight Ic. t. 1299, 1300 ; Miq. I. c. 442. 

 S. caudatus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. 257 and For. Fl. II. 

 191 ; Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XV. 263 ; Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 

 Paris, 3^ s^r. V. 263 ; Gilg in Engl. Monog. 16. S. pentaphyllus, Griff. 

 Notul. IV. 78. Echites caudata, Burm. Fl. Ind. 68, t. 26. Nerimn 

 caudatum, Lamk. Diet. III. 458. 



Perak : Wray 1668, 3306 ; Scortechini 1819, 1740 ; King's Collector 

 3896, 8628. Malacca : Griffith ; Maingay (K.D.) 1073 ; Lohh.— 

 DisTEiB. Tenasserim, Java. 



2. Strophanthus Wallichii, A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 418 (1844). A 

 climbing glabrous shrub ; branchlets slender, terete, bark brown with 

 many prominent lenticels. Leaves membranous ; elliptic-oblong or 

 -obovate, abruptly and shortly acuminate at apex, cuneate to almost 

 rounded at base, plicately folded when young ; upper surface dull, dark, 

 lower surface pale; margins imdulate, recurved; 1*5 to 3 in. long, -75 to 

 1-25 in. broad; midrib prominent, flattened beneath, slightly impressed 

 above; main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, at an angle of about 60° with the midrib, 

 curving upwards to join in an intramarginal looped nerve well within 

 the margin ; secondary nerves and reticulations in an elegant network ; 

 all, with the main nerves and midrib, prominent on the under surface by 

 their colour darker than that of the tissue ; petiole slender, -25 in. long. 

 Cymes dichotomous, spreading, reaching 3 in. long and 3 in. in breadth 

 at the corymbose top; main peduncles 1 to 1'5 in. long; secondary 

 peduncles about 4, up to 1 in. long ; tertiary peduncles and pedicels 

 slender, about -25 in. long ; bracts or bracteoles at each joint in pairs 

 similar to the calyx-lobes, linear-lanceolate, recurved, "25 to -35 in. long, 

 minutely pubescent ; flower-buds slender : flowers pink or yellow^ with 



