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pedunculate ; branches usually dichotomous, slender, bearing clusters 

 of flowers at rather long intervals ; bracts minute, subulate ; pedicels 

 to •! in. long ; buds conical ; flowers reddish-brown. Calyx hispidly 

 rusty-pubescent ; lobes ovate-acute or rounded, -05 in. long, gland- 

 dotted. Corolla campanulate ; tube as long as lobes ; lobes ovate, 

 margins incurved, -1 in. long, shortly villous within. C'orowa-processes 

 very small, as long as anthers, bifid at apex. Style-apex columnar, 

 clavate when young. Fruit not known. 



Penang : at Moniot's road, Curtis 2303. 



5. ToxocABPUS LANKAwiENSis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender 

 twining shrub ; branchlets thin with brown bark. Leaves chartaceous ; 

 elliptic, shortly cuspidate-acuminate at apex, rounded at base ; both 

 surfaces greyish-green when dry, glabrous except along the midrib 

 beneath ; margins slightly recurved ; 3 to 3*5 in. long, 1-75 to 2 in. 

 broad ; midrib slender, impressed above, raised beneath as are the 5 to 6 

 pairs of main nerves which start at an angle of 60° with the midrib and 

 curve upwards to join in a looped intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves 

 few ; reticulations irregular ; petiole slender, -25 to "3 in. long, hispid. 

 Cymes axillary, sessile, pubescent, "5 to 1 in. long, corymbose; the 

 flowers racemosely clustered on the branches ; bracts persistent, minute, 

 ovate-acute ; bracteoles similar, in sheathing pairs to each very short 

 pedicel ; buds conical, about -15 in. long ; flowers yellowish with purple 

 glandular dots. Calyx-tuhe short, -05 in. long ; lobes ovate-oblong, acute, 

 ciliate, "1 in. long ; scales 0. Corolla campanulate ; tube -1 to -15 in. 

 long ; lobes triangular-acuminate, blunt, irregular, -05 to '1 in. long, 

 pubescent within, both with glandular purple dots. Corowa-processes 

 adherent to the anthers and longer than them, each incurved over the 

 style-apex and with an upturned lobe on the back. Style-apex columnar, 

 on a broad annulate base. Fruit not known. 



Kedah : Langkawi Island, Curtis 2616. 



11. GONIOSTEMMA, Wight. 



Slender climbing shrubs with warted bark. Leaves opposite. 

 Flowers in interpetiolar, lax, many-flowered, paniculate cymes. Calyx 

 5-partite ; lobes rounded, with 5 glandular scales at the base within. 

 Corolla campanulate-rotate ; tube lined by a toothed membrane ; lobes 

 overlapping to the left. Corona short, thick ; the 5 processes combined 

 in a 5-lobed tube adherent to the base of the staminal-column ; the lobes 

 triangular, shorter than the column. Staminal-cohvmn attached to 

 the base of the corolla-tube, fleshy, much shorter than the style ; 

 anthers slender ; appendages erect around the style-apex ; pollen-masses 



