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Anthers acute or very minutely apiculate; spurs slightly incurved. Ovary 

 villous ; style obconical ; stigma conical, annulate at base. Follicles usually 

 horizontal, in one line, sometimes slightly curved backwards, terete, 6 to 

 8 in. long, -2 in. broad, acuminate and slightly hooked at apex. Seeds flat- 

 tened, -4 to "5 in. long, ending in a tuft of bristles and a milky-white 

 coma about 1"5 in. long ; testa tough, densely rusty-villous. 



Penang : Curtis 403. Peeak : Scortechini. Malacca : Maingay 

 (K.D.) 1079, 1080 ; Curtis 3478 ; Gooclenough 1564 ; Bidley 1610, 2727, 

 6937, 8397, 9125, 10772. 



4. Urceola malaccensis. Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. III. 658 (1882). 

 A large climbing shrub, glabrous except the innovations and the inflores- 

 cence ; branchlets nearly black, terete, rather slender. Leaves coriaceous 

 ovate or ovate-oblong, obtusely caudate-acuminate at apex, rounded at 

 base ; upper surface pale green, pale when dry, lower red-brown when 

 dry, both surfaces smooth ; margins slightly reciu'ved ; 2 to 4-5 in. long, 

 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib strong, impressed above, raised beneath ; main 

 nerves 6 to 8 pairs, slender, prominently marked on JDoth surfaces, 

 starting at an angle of about 60° with the midrib and curved upwards to 

 and along the margin, intramarginal nerve only near the tip ; reticula- 

 tions transverse, regular ; petiole "5 to -75 in. long, slender, articulate 

 near the base, the bases of each pair of leaves joined by a slender ridge at 

 the node. Inflorescence of terminal or axillary cymes, hoary-pubescent, 

 trichotomous, about 2 in. long and 3 in. broad ; cymules many-flowered, 

 congested, corymbose ; peduncles about 1 to 1'25 in. long, flattened ; 

 secondary peduncles about 1 in. long, rest smaller ; bracts leafy ; 

 bracteoles very many, linear-oblong, similar to the calyx-lobes ; buds 

 globose. Calyx-lohes linear-oblong or almost spatulate, unequal, re- 

 curved, up to '1 in. long. Corolla-tube vevy short ; lobes oblong, indupli- 

 cate, glabrous within except for a small tuft of hair between the stamens- 

 Anthers obtuse, with a rounded apiculus; spui's straight. Oya/"?/-carpels 

 hirsute ; style obconic ; stigma conical, tip bifid. Follicles slender, 

 terete, acuminate, 8 to 9 in. long, -2 in. broad, slightly curved, recurved 

 so that the angle between them is about 240°. Seeds oblong-fusiform ; 

 acuminate at the base, the tip furnished with a ring of bristles enclosing 

 the w^hite, silky, about 2 in. long, coma ; testa thin, villous, with golden- 

 silky stiff hairs. 



Peeak : King's Collector 4464 ; Bidley 9666. Malacca : Maingay 

 (K.D.) 1098, 1082, part. Selangoe : Curtis 2395. Johoee : Bidley 

 9168; G. King. SmGAFonE: Hullett 84:6, 909; Cantley 121. 



5. Ueceola lucida, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii., 716 (1876). A climbing 

 shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence ; branchlets slender, nearly 

 black, terete. Leaves chartaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, abruptly 



