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branchlets, with prominent ridges. Leaves membranous ; oblong-lan- 

 ceolate or elliptic-oblong, acuminate at apex often abruptly, rounded at 

 base ; glabrous above, glabrous or pubescent beneath ; 2 to 5 in. long, 

 •75 to 1'5 in. broad ; midrib slender, channelled above, raised beneath ; 

 main nerves 12 to 16 pairs at an angle of about 60° with the midrib, 

 slightly arching to meet in a prominent intramarginal looped nerve, 

 the lowest 1 or 2 pairs occasionally free, raised beneath ; secondary 

 nerves also prominent, usually one between each pair of main nerves ; 

 reticulations netted; petiole '15 to "25 in. long, slender. Cymes terminal 

 or more often axillary, di-tri-chotomous, puberulous, variable in size 

 but reaching to about 4 in. in length and 3 in. in breadth ; peduncles 

 about 1 to 2 in. long ; branches gradually shorter ; ultimate cymules 

 corymbose; pedicels "15 in. long; bracts caducous; bracteoles linear- 

 subulate, -25 in. long ; buds cylindrical, slender ; flowers white. Calyx- 

 tube almost none ; lobes lanceolate-acuminate, "25 in. long, glabrous or 

 pubescent, nerved, with many small subulate glands at the base within, 

 especially on the inner lobes. Corolla-tuhe cylindric above, enlarged at 

 the base below the stamens and sometimes slightly constricted near the 

 mouth, which is thickened, -25 in. long, glabrous except for 5 villous 

 bands behind the anthers within ; lobes narrow, linear, acute, "5 to '7 in. 

 long. Stamens inserted a little above the base of the tube ; anthers 

 lanceolate-acuminate, -15 in. long ; filaments very short. Ovary of 

 2 obtuse carpels, glabrous, half sunk in the disk ; style slender, 

 annulate at top ; stigma conoidal. Follicles pendulous, slender, 

 slightly divergent, -52 to 1-5 ft. long, -3 to -4 in. broad, glabrous, dark 

 brown, speckled, at first joined at the tip. Seeds linear-oblong, -3 in. 

 long, crowned with a silky coma 1*5 in. long ; albumen very scanty. 

 Wight Ic. t. 425 ; A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 433 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLVI. ii. 256, and For. M. II. 186; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 663; 

 Prain Beng. Plants 679. A. acuminata, G. Don I. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 424 ; 

 A. DC. I. c. 434; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 447. A. macrocarpa, A. DC. I. c. 

 434 ; Miq. I. c. Echites marginata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 15 ; Wall. Cat. 

 1661. E. acuminata, Eoxb. I. c. E. macrocarpa. Wall. Cat. 1662. 

 E. reticulata, Boj. Hort. Maur. 211. E. apoxys, Voigt Hort. Sub. 

 Calc. 522. ? E. cristata. Both. Nov. PI. 135. ? Chonemorpha cristata, 

 G. Don I. c. 76. 



Teang: Curtis 3393; King's Collector 1426. Kedah: on Langkawi 

 Island, Curtis 2792. Penang : Curtis 664. Perak : Scortechini 6, 7, 

 68 ; King's Collector 7321. Malacca : Griffith ; Maingay (K.D.) 1076, 

 1000 to 1002. Pahang : Bidley in Trans. Linn. Soc, Ser. 2, III. 3219. 

 Singapore : Murton 74. — Distrib. India (Sylhet and Chittagong), 

 Burma, Java, Sumatra, Philippine Islands. 



