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2. Epigynum Maingayi, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. III. 666 (1882). A 

 climbing shrub ; branchlets slender with ferruginous tomentum. Leaves 

 membranous ; elliptic, acute both at apex and at base ; glabrous or 

 minutely puberulous on the upper, yellowish-brown-tomentose on the 

 lower surface ; margin slightly recurved; 3-5 to i'S in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. 

 broad ; midrib stout, prominently raised beneath ; main nerves 6 to 



7 pairs, at about 60° with the midrib, at first nearly straight, then 

 slightly curving to join an intramarginal looped nerve ; secondary 

 nerves few, inconspicuous as are the rather distant reticulations ; 

 petiole '25 in. long, ta\\my-tomentose. Cymes terminal or axillary, 

 trichotomous, tawny-tomentose, reaching about 3 in. in length and 2 in. 

 in breadth ; peduncles 1 to 1'5 in. long ; main branch peduncles 

 •5 to -75 in. long, cymules paniculate ; pedicels '2 to '3 in. long, stout ; 

 bracts leafy, deciduous ; bracteoles ovate-acuminate, "075 to "1 in. long, 

 3 to each pedicel ; buds clavate, whitish-brown-tomentose, '5 to "75 in. 

 long ; flowers white. Calyx small ; lobes ovate-acuminate, "1 in. long, each 

 with about 3 subulate pubescent scales at the base within. CoroZZa-tube 

 cylindric, tawny-tomentose, slightly dilated below opposite the stamens, 

 gradually enlarged above, with 5 viUous longitudinal lines within, -6 to 

 •7 in. long ; throat with tufts of hair between the lobes ; lobes oblong, 

 crenulate, rounded, twisted to the left, glabrous within, glabrous on one 

 half and tomentose on the other half without. Staviens inserted a 

 little above the base of the tube ; filaments slender ; anthers very 

 narrowly sagittate, long-acuminate above and with spurs as long below, 

 •175 in. long in all. Dish annular, faintly undulate on the margin, 

 glabrous. Ovary of 2 glabrous carpels attached to the disk at their 

 backs and within it; style slender ; stigma slender, cylindric, "1 in. long, 

 with a spreading ring below and conical point above. Follicles 6 to 



8 in. long, -15 to -25 in. broad, slender, cylindric, flexuous, rusty- 

 tomentose. Seeds fusiform, pubescent, compressed, -6 to '7 in. long, 

 obliquely truncate at top and crowned with a coma of white silky 

 hairs. 



Pbeak : in open bamboo forests, iOO to 600 ft., Kings Collector 

 8734. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1088. Selangoe : at Kwala 

 Lumpor, Bidley. 



3. Epigynum Curtisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing shrub ; 

 branchlets slender, terete, uppermost and innovations puberulous. 

 Leaves membranous ; lanceolate, acuminate at apex, attenuate and 

 finally rounded at base ; glabrous above, glabrous beneath except along 

 the midrib and for the large hairy tufts in the axils of the main nerves ; 

 margins slightly recurved; 3-5 to 4-5 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. broad; midrib 

 slender, raised beneath ; main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, at an angle of 60^ 



