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to the left. Stamens inserted a little above the base of the tube ; fila- 

 ments '15 in. long, flattened, puberulous; anthers sagittate, "25 in. long, 

 with a membranous tip and long basal spurs. Disk 5-lobed ; lobes sparsely 

 long hirsute. Ovary of 2 glabrous carpels within the disk ; style slender ; 

 stigma long cylindric, with a spreading fimbriate ring below and conical 

 tip. Fridt not known. 



Peeak : at Eawang, Bidley 7567. 



The following species is here described as likely to be eventually 

 found in the Peninsula : — 



EpictYnum Foebesii, King & Gamble, n. sp, A climbing shrub; branchlets 

 slender, terete, uppermost minutely puberulous. Leaves chartaceous ; elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate at apex, euneate at base ; glabrous or with 

 scattered hairs above, glabrous beneath ; 3'o to o-o in. long, 1 to 2'5 in. broad : mid- 

 rib slender, prominent beneath ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, arching upwards to and 

 along the margin and meeting in an intramarginal looped nerve, raised beneath ; secon- 

 dary nerves many ; reticulations distant, irregular ; petiole -2 to -4 in. long, twisted. 

 Cymes terminal and axillary, about 20-flowered, congested, tawny-tomentose, sessile or 

 very shortly peduncled ; bracts leafy ; bracteoles small, ovate-acuminate, 2 to 3 at the 

 bases of the •! in. long pedicels ; buds clavate with large conical heads ; flowers white. 

 Galyx-\ohe& ovate-acuminate, •! to "15 in. long, eglandular. CoroZZa-tube slender, 

 cylindric, dilated below opposite the stamens, often twisted, 1 in. long ; lobes spathu- 

 late, erenulate, glabrous except the part exposed in the bud, twisted to the left, -6 in. 

 long. Stamens inserted a little above the base ; filaments short, slender ; anthers 

 narrowly sagittate, acuminate. Disk glabrous, 5-lobed. Ovary of 2 glabrous carpels 

 adnate to the disk ; style slender ; stigma cylindric, with a spreading ring below and 

 conical tip. Fruit not seen. 



Sumatra: near Bijin Telok, 500 ft., Forbes 3236. Haviland's No. 3048 from 

 Kuching, Borneo, resembles this very closely, but has the leaves more lanceolate and 

 longer acuminate. 



31. MiCEECHITBS, Miq. 



Large climbing shrubs with pubescent inflorescence, otherwise 

 glabrous. Leaves opposite, penninerved. Floiuers small, in axillary and 

 terminal dichotomous thyrsoid or brachiate panicled cymes. Calyx 

 small, deeply 5-fid or 5-partite, with obtuse lobes, many-glandular 

 ■within. Corolla subhypocrateriform ; the tiibe ovoid-campanulate, naked 

 at the mouth ; lobes 5 falcate, very oblique, sometimes forked, the upper 

 half deflexed in bud, overlapping to the right. Stamens inserted near 

 the bottom of the tube, included ; filaments short ; anthers sagittate, 

 conniving round and adhering to the stigma ; cells produced at the base 

 into empty spurs. Dish annular or cupular, entire or 5-lobed. Ovary 

 of 2 distinct carpels, longer than the disk ; style short ; stigma ovoid or 

 oblong, with a short obtuse apiculus ; ovules very many. Fruit of 2 

 divaricate, thick, subterete, follicular mericarps. Seeds generally few, 

 linear- oblong, compressed, not beaked, with a terminal persistent coma ; 



