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Ovarij of 2 carpels, sunk in the disk ; style sliort, obconical ; stigma 

 conical, apiculate. Fruit of 2 long, acuminate, follicular ro.ericarps. 

 Seeds oblong, narrowed at the ends, tipped with a deciduous coma ; 

 albumen scanty ; cotyledons linear, flat ; radicle superior. — Disteib. 

 Ceylon and Malaya ; about 3 species. 



Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, over 1 in. broad ; cymes 



paniculate ; corolla-lobes linear-oblong, over •! in. long . . 1. C vuilacceiuis. 



Leaves lanceolate ; cymes corymbose ; corolla-lobes rounded, 



under "05 in. long . . . . . . . . 2. C. gracilis. 



1. Cleghornia malaccensis. King & Gamble. A slender climbing 

 shrub ; branchlets pale brown, terete, often curved in the internodes. 

 Leaves membranous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, abruptly obtusely 

 caudate-acuminate at apex, attenuate to almost rounded at base ; bright 

 green above, blueish-green beneath, nearly white when dry ; margin 

 recurved ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 1'5 in. broad ; midrib slender, channelled 

 above, raised beneath ; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, slightly impressed 

 above, raised beneath, at about 70° to 80° sometimes at right angles to 

 the midrib, straight and meeting in an intramarginal looped nerve ; 

 secondary nerves many, one usually between each pair of main nerves ; 

 reticulations few, inconspicuous ; petiole "5 to 1 in. long, twisted. Cymes 

 terminal, rarely axillary, paniculate, reaching 4 in. in length and breadth ; 

 peduncles slender, -75 to 2 in. long, flattened ; brandies trichotomous, 

 flattened, variable ; ultimate cymules subumbellate ; pedicels "1 to '2 in. 

 long ; bracteoles ovate- subulate, very small ; buds oblong-clavate ; 

 flowers waxy, white with yellow inside. Calyx-lohes lanceolate, ciliate, 

 •075 in. long. Corolla tubular-campanulate, -2 to -25 in. long, glabrous 

 except for a minute pubescence near the throat within ; lobes as long as 

 tube, linear-oblong ; margins incurved, slightly twisted to the left. 

 Stamens inserted a little above the base of the tube ; filaments slender ; 

 anthers sagittate, pubescent on the back, bluntly apiculate ; the basal 

 spurs long. Disk of 5 slightly bifid scales. Ovary scarcely exsert from 

 the disk ; style slender ; stigma oblong, conical above and often bifid at 

 tip. Follicles divaricate at about a right angle, 2-5 to 5 in. long, -25 in. 

 broad, slightly incurved, acu.minate, glabrous. Seeds linear-oblong or 

 fusiform, -4 to "5 in. long, ending in a flattish point covered with a rather 

 short coma of silky hairs ; testa thin, brown. Baissea malaccensis, 

 Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. III. 663. 



Pekak : Scortechini 40 ; Wray 3457 ; King's Collector 5900, 8798, 

 10799. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1094. 



2. Cleghoenia gracilis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender climbing 

 shrub, the stem reaching 1 to 2 in. in diam. ; branchlets very slender' 



