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the base within, -075 in. long, twisted ; tube very short. Corona- 

 processes adherent to and as long as the staminal tube, the back with a 

 short upturned tooth. Style-apex produced, ovate-clavate, acuminate 

 and bifid at tip. Follicles 12 in. long, -15 in. broad, very slender, 

 flexuous, slightly torulose ; pericarp crustaceous, puberulous. Seeds 



1 in. long, linear, very slender, obliquely truncate at apex and furnished 

 with a thick coma of silky hairs 1 to 1-25 in. long ; testa dark brown, 

 granular; cotyledons oblong, thin. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 13. Toxo- 

 carjnis sp., Griff. Notul. IV. 69, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 404 {Asclepiadece). 

 Connaracea, Wall. Cat. 8550. 



Penang : Porter. Peeak : at Sungie Larut, Wray 2465 ; in dense 

 jungle on low wet ground near Lanit, King's Collector (Kunstler) 6205. 

 Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1105. Singapgee : Lohh 45. — Disteib. 

 Burma (in Mergui, Griffith 8550 ; Heifer 3758). 



2. ToxocAEPUS GuETisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender climb- 

 ing shrub ; branchlets pustular, dark bro'wn, striate, the uppermost 

 rusty-pubescent, nodes slightly swollen. Leaves elHptic or elliptic- 

 obovate, shortly and bluntly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; both 

 surfaces olive-grey, upper darker and shining, lower sparsely rusty- 

 pubescent when young ; margins recurved ; 2 to 3"5 in. long, 1'25 to 



2 in. broad ; midrib prominent, impressed above, raised beneath ; main 

 nerves distant, 4 to 8 pairs, starting at an angle of BO*^ with the midrib 

 and arched upwards to join in an intramarginal looped nerve as 

 prominent as themselves and like them raised beneath; secondary 

 nerves few, obscure ; reticulations irregular ; petiole '2 to "5 in. long, 

 slender, twisted. Cymes axillary, tawny-pubescent, sessile or on very 

 short peduncles ; branches 2 to 3, subracemose; the flowers in bracteate 

 clusters ; bracts small, lanceolate ; pedicels short ; buds conical, 

 acuminate. Calyx thickly rusty-pubescent without ; lobes ovate- 

 acuminate, "05 in. long ; scales alternate with the lobes, very minute or 

 0. Corolla glabrous on both surfaces ; tube short ; lobes Hnear-Hgtdate, 

 twisted, much spreading, -2 in. long. Corowa-processes acute, longer than 

 the staminal-column, each with a short ascending tooth on the back. 

 Stijle-apex lanceolate-conical, acuminate, with a flattened ring at its 

 base. Follicles linear-acuminate, recurved at tip, 4 in. long, -3 in. broad, 

 recurved to nearly 3 right angles apart ; pericarp smooth, thin. Seeds 

 oblong, flattened, -5 to '6 in. long, -15 in. broad, shortly beaked and then 

 broadening at the base of the soft white silky coma which is 1'5 in. 

 long ; testa thin, dark brow^n. 



Kedah : Langkawi Island, Curtis 3787. Peeak: in dense jungle at 

 2000 to 3000 ft., King's Collector 8150. 



3. ToxocAEPUS ScoETECHiNii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing 



