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Selaxgob. : Ridley 1A1% Malacca: Maingay (K.D.j 1081. — Disteib. 

 Andaman Islands, Java. 



Some of the specimens examined differ in the size of the flowers, in the inflores- 

 cence, and in the greater or less bifurcation of the corolla-lobes, but we have not 

 succeeded in separating any of them as species or even varieties, and prefer to consider 

 them all as forms of one. 



2. MiCEECHiTES ELLiPTicA, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 671 (1882). 

 Bhyncospenmtm 4, Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. & Th. 



India in Sikkim Himalaya at 4000 to 6000 ft., and Kliasia Hills at 

 3000 to 4000 ft. 



Var. Scortechinii, King & Gamble. A climbing slirub. Leaves char- 

 taceous ; lanceolate, obtusely long-acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces; 3 to 3-5 in. long, 1 to 1'5 in. broad; main 

 nerves 10 to 12, very slender, not conspicuous ; secondary nerves many ; 

 reticulations oblique ; petiole '25 in. long. Cymes terminal or axillary, 

 very few-flowered, scarcely reaching 1 to 1'5 in. long, minutely puberulous ; 

 pedicels slender, -2 in. long ; bracteoles ovate, persistent ; buds ovoid, obtuse. 

 Galyx-lohQQ ovate, ciliate, rounded, -075 in. long. Gorolla-ivhQ cylindric, 

 •1 in. long, constricted slightly at the mouth ; lobes linear-oblong, -15 

 in. long, twisted, glabrous, much turned to the left. Anthers sagittate, 

 acuminate; filaments very short. Ovary densely villous. Fruit not known. 



Perak : Scortechini. 



This may prove, when better specimens are available, to be incapable of separation 

 from the Indian type. 



Family LXXVI. ASCLEPIADACE^. 



Herbs or shrubs, erect or more usually twining, often with a 

 tuberous rootstock or fleshy roots ; juice milky or watery ; stems simple 

 or branched, usually woody, sometimes succulent. Leaves opposite or 

 whorled, sometimes wanting, very rarely alternate ; thin or fleshy, quite 

 entire, sometimes with an interpetiolar stipulary line or teeth. Floioers 

 hermaphrodite, very variable in size and form but always regular; 

 solitary or few or many together, in umbels, umbel-like cymes, fascicles 

 or racemes, axillary, lateral between the bases of the leaves or terminal. 

 Calyx inferior, of 5 sepals or 5-lobed ; lobes imbricate, usually with 

 minute glandular scales at the base within. Corolla hypogynous, gamo- 

 petalous, regular, 5-lobed, various in shape ; tube usually short (long in 

 Ceropegia), sometimes furnished within or at its mouth with variously 

 shaped processes forming a corolline corona; lobes imbricate, contorted 

 or valvate in gestivation, often recurved, sometimes more or less erect and 

 connate at their tips. Stamens 5, inserted at or near the base of the 

 corolla and alternate with its lobss, rarely higher up ; filaments some- 



