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pedicels slender ; bracteoles linear-subulate or lanceolate ; buds globose ; 

 flowers very small. Crt/^.^-lobes ovate-oblong, -05 to -075 in. long, 

 obtuse, erect. Corolla urceolate ; tube very short ; lobes oblong acute, 

 slightly longer than calyx-lobes, glabrous within except for tufts of hair 

 between the anthers. Anthers "075 in. long, tip acute or bifid, spurs 

 short, straight. Ovary villous ; style obconic, subannulate at the base ; 

 stigma conical. Follicles torulose, very slender, 1-5 to 2-5 ft. long, 

 smooth, the swellings 1 to 1*5 in. apart ; pericarp thin, smooth inside; 

 placenta enlarged opposite the seeds. Seeds elliptic-lanceolate, "5 in. 

 long, the top crowTied with a dense tuft of tawny bristles, within which 

 arises the white silky coma 1 to 1'8 in. long ; testa rather thick, ribbed, 

 densely villous, with tawny hairs. 



M.\lacca: Griffith; Maingay (K.D.) 1080, 1086; Derry 1096. 

 JoHOEE : Bidley 11132. Singapoee : Bidley 152, 2722, 3602, 4433, 

 4960, 6523 ; ? Kunstler 198 ; Hullett 509. 



Doubtful Species. 



7. Ueceola reticulata. King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing shrub ; 

 branchlets nearly black, smooth, slightly angled ; all parts glabrous 

 except the inflorescence and extreme innovations. Leaves eUiptic ; 

 abruptly caudate-acuminate at apex, rounded or slightly cordate at 

 base, shining on the upper surface, often plicate ; margin recurved ; 

 3*5 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; midrib strong, prominent beneath, 

 slightly impressed above ; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, impressed above, 

 prominent beneath, at an angle of 70^ with the midrib, at first straight, 

 then curved to meet in a conspicuously looped intramarginal nerve ; 

 secondary nerves few, short ; reticulations transverse, very prominent, 

 especially beneath ; petiole "5 to nearly 1 in. long, slender, articulate 

 near the base. Inflorescence terminal or axiUary, tawny-puberulous, 

 trichotomous, very much 5- to 6-pinnately paniculate, reaching 12 in. in 

 length and nearly the same in breadth, but in some cases and especially 

 when axiUary very much smaller ; peduncles and their branches variable 

 in length, but always long, slender, flattened ; ultimate cymules, sub- 

 umbeUately corymbose ; bracts leafy, gradually diminishing ; bracteoles 

 smaU, ovate-lanceolate to ovate ; buds globose, minute. Calyx-\iuhQ 

 short ; lobes as long as tube, "03 in. long, ovate, acute. Corolla globose ; 

 tube scarcely any ; lobes ovate "06 in. long, glabrous within except for 

 the tufts of hair between the stamens. Anthers sagittate ; tip flattened, 

 membranous ; spurs as long as the upper part ; filaments very short. 

 Ovary villous, style obconical ; stigma conical, bilobed. Fruit not known. 



Malacca : Pun Behas 122. Singapoee : Bidley 2745, 5628. 



8. Ueceola ? branches and leaves glabrous ; bark black when dry ; 



