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than the anthers. Anthers broad ; appendages short, incurved ; pollen- 

 masses ovoid, horizontal, attached by minute straight caudicles to 

 the slightly spurred pollen-carriers. Ovary of 2 carpels ; style-apex 

 pentagonal, tip convex. Follicles 2, divaricate at right angles, 

 lanceolate, poniard-shaped, long-acuminate, 3-5 to 4-5 in. long, -25 in. 

 broad ; pericarp thin, smooth. Seeds oblong, broadly winged, "4 to 

 •5 in. long, -15 to -2 in. broad, base rounded; tip broadly truncate, 

 bearing a white silky coma 1-5 in. long ; testa thin, dark brown, 

 smooth ; cotyledons elliptic, -075 in. long, nerved ; radicle cylindric, 

 •05 in. long. Wall. Cat. 8205 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 608 ; Hook, f . 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 42. 



Peeak: on Maxwell's Hill, 3500 ft., Wray 4185; do. Bidley 5514 ; 

 Scortechini; at 3500 to 4000 ft.. King's Collector, 3317, 3318, 6301 ; at 

 Cottage Hill, 4000 to 6000 ft., Curtis 145, 2087.— Distrib. India 

 (Sikkim, Khasia Hills, Sylhet). 



2. Tylophora globifera. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 41 (1883). A 

 slender, glabrous, twining undershrub ; branchlets glabrous, terete. 

 Leaves membranous ; ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, 

 rounded or slightly cordate at base ; both surfaces glabrous, smooth ; 

 margins slightly recurved ; 1 to 3 in. long, -5 to 1'5 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender, raised beneath; main nerves 4 to 7 pairs, at first nearly straight, 

 then curving to join in an intramarginal looped nerve ; petiole '25 to 

 •5 in. long, slender. Cymes long-peduncled, compressed, few-fiowered, 

 more or less umbellate ; peduncles about 1 in. long ; bracts lanceolate- 

 acuminate ; pedicels filiform, -5 to "75 in. long ; buds ovoid, depressed ; 

 flowers blue {Kunstler). Calyx glabrous; lobes ovate-lanceolate, '1 in. 

 long. Corolla -3 in. in diam., cleft half-way down ; lobes ovate, "15 in. 

 long, prominently nerved. Corowa-processes globose, large, as high as 

 the anthers. J.?2'^/2er-appendages short, crenate, incurved over the 

 style-apex ; pollen-masses ellipsoid, horizontal, joined by straight 

 caudicles to the small oblong pollen-carriers. Style-apex 5-lobed; tip 

 convex. Fruit not known. 



Perak : banks of Bernam river, King's Collector 8853. Malacca : 

 Griffith 3764. — Distrib. Andaman Islands, Borneo. 



3. Tylophora tenuis, Blume Bijdr. 1062 (1826). A slender twiner; 

 stems much branched, very slender, glabrous; the nodes pubescent, the 

 internodes sometimes only. Leaves somewhat fleshy when fresh, 

 membranous when dry ; variable in shape, ovate-elliptic or -oblong or 

 -lanceolate, acute or apiculate at apex, rounded or slightly cordate at 

 base ; margins recurved ; '75 to 2 in. long, -25 to 1 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender, puberulous above ; main nerves 4 to 5 pairs, indistinct, nearly 

 straight to join an intramarginal looped nerve ; reticulations obscure ; 



