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in. broad ; midrib as well as all nerves and reticulations impressed 

 above, raised beneath ; midrib thick ; main nerves stout, 18 to 20 pairs, 

 at about 60° with the midrib, nearly straight to join an obscure intra- 

 marginal looped nerve close to the margin ; secondary nerves few ; 

 reticulations closely netted ; petiole rather stout, -15 to "25 in. long. 

 Cymes more or less grey-puberulous, reaching 1-5 in. long and 2 in. 

 broad ; peduncle stout, -25 to -5 in. long ; branches 3-chotomous 

 secondary branches again 3-chotomous, both furnished with pairs of 

 small ovate acute bracts ; pedicels slender, -15 in. long ; buds ovoid, 

 acute. Calyx short ; tube very short ; lobes ovate, acute, hyaline on 

 the margins, glandular dotted; scale-ring narrow. C'o?-oZk-tube short, 

 lobes oblong, blunt, -15 in. long. Corona none. Stamens few; filaments 

 rather thick, enlarged and almost confluent at the base ; anthers short, 

 rounded ; appendages triangular, black, curved over the style-apex and 

 connate. Styles short, stout ; style-apex obscurely 5-angled, flattened at 

 top. Follicles straight, thick, 1 to 1-25 in. long, -25 in. broad, divaricate 

 in a straight line, tip slightly incurved, blunt ; pericarp thin, minutely 

 grey-pubescent. Seeds oblong-cylindric, -1 in. long and -05 in. thick, 

 ending in a sparse white silky coma -2 in. long ; testa granular, very 

 thin ; albumen copious ; cotyledons elliptic, fleshy, -06 in. long ; radicle 

 cylindric, a little shorter than the cotyledons. 



SiAM States: at Poongah, in the crevices of limestone rocks. 

 Curtis 2951. 



4. Hemidesmus, Br. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 4. Floioers small, 

 greenish-purple, in opposite crowded subsessile cymes. Calyx 5-partite ; 

 lobes acuminate ; with 5 minute scales between them at their bases 

 within. Corolla rotate, deeply 5-fid, with valvate fleshy lobes ; tube 

 very short. Corowa-processes 5, short, thick, on the throat of the 

 corolla and alternate with its lobes. Stamens inserted at the base of 

 the corolla- tube ; filaments distinct or subconnate at the base ; anthers 

 small, cohering at the apex, terminated by inflexed appendages ; 

 pollen-masses cohering in pairs in each cell, granular ; the caudicles of 

 the pollen-carriers thick below, then slender, bearing cucullate or 

 spreading appendicles. Style-apex 5-lobed, flat on the top. Fruit of 2 

 slender divaricate terete follicular mericarps. Seeds oblong, flattened, 

 ridged on the ventral face, ending in a broad tip bearing a long silky 

 coma ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons oblong, fleshy ; radicle cylindric. — 

 DiSTEiB. India and Malaya ; species 1 or 2. 



