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and along the margin ; secondary nerves none ; reticulations minutely 

 netted but not prominent ; petiole -25 to -5 in. long, channelled above. 

 Cymes spreading, much-branched, many-flowered, hispidly pubescent, 

 reaching 1-5 to 2 in. long and 2 to 2-5 in. broad ; peduncles usually short, 

 about -25 in. long ; branch peduncles -5 in., rest gradually shorter ; 

 bracts many, in pairs, small, ovate-acuminate ; pedicels slender ; buds 

 ovoid-pyramidal ; flowers glabrous, reddish. Calyx-tuhe turbinate ; 

 lobes ovate-oblong, -025 in. long, often emarginate, hyaline at the edges ; 

 scales minute, obtuse. Gorolla-tuhe very short, cylindric, then rotate ; 

 lobes oblong, -075 in. long, obtuse, tips incurved. Corona-processes 

 •03 in. long, tips glandular. Follicles slender, 3 in. long, -3 in. broad, divari- 

 cate in a straight line, tips sHghtly hooked ; pericarp thin, densely 

 greyish-tomentose. Seeds oblong, rounded at base, keeled on the 

 ventral siu-face, -25 in. long by '05 in. broad, broad at tip and with a 

 thick white silky coma 1 to 1'25 in. long; testa thin, brown, shining; 

 albumen very scanty ; cotyledons ovate-oblong, acute, "1 in. long ; 

 radicle slender, cylindric. Wall. Cat. 8249b ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 

 496 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 469 ; Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. IV. 9. 



Kjedah : on Lankawi Island, Puclley 8295 ; Bell in Cantley 229. 

 Kelantan : Bidley cf. Trans. Linn. Soc, Ser. 2, III. 320. Penang : 

 Phillips ; Maingay (K.D.) 1100 ; Deschamps ; Stoliczha ; G. King ; 

 Curtis 472, 2122 ; Bidley 9484 ; King's Collector 4910, 5188. Peovince 

 Wellesley : at Arakuda, Bidley 6972. Peeak : Scortechini ; King's 

 Collector 2509 ; Bidley 3072. Singapgee : Wallich 8249b. 



2. Steeptocaulon Geiffithii, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 10 (1883). A 

 climbing shrub ; branchlets dark purplish-brown, pubescent ; innovations 

 hispidly tomentose. Leaves subcoriaceous ; obovate-oblong or oblanceo- 

 late, shortly acuminate at apex, narrowed and finally roimded or cordate 

 at base ; upper surface greyish and puberulous, lower densely greyish- 

 brown-tomentose ; margin slightly reflexed ; 3 to 4 in. long, 1 to 2 in. 

 broad ; midrib stout beneath, more slender and impressed above ; main 

 nerves 14 to 18 pairs, at about 60^ with the midrib, at first straight, 

 then cui'ved to and along the margin ; secondary nerves none ; reticula- 

 tions minutely netted, the larger ones transverse between the main 

 nerves, all sHghtly impressed above and raised beneath ; petiole -20 in. 

 long. Cymes dichotomous, hispidly tomentose, 1 to 2 in. long and 

 broad ; peduncle '25 in. long ; branches furnished with many pairs of 

 opposite persistent ovate-acute hirsute bracts ; petiole slender, -15 in. 

 long ; buds ovoid-conic. Cahjx-tuhe turbinate ; lobes ovate-acute, 

 hirsute without, glabrous within; margins hyaUne ; scales minute, 2- to 

 3-fid. Corolla-t-ahe very short or none ; lobes rotate, ovate-acute, -1 

 to -15 in. long, glabrous but minutely puncticulate without. Corona- 



