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Penaxg : Phillips-, at Waterfall stone-quarry, Curtis. — Disteib. 

 China? TFa7/«Wt 8202 (cult, in Hort. Calc). 



After examining specimens at Kew, we prefer to leave this plant in its present 

 rather doubtful position, rather than to accept the suggestion in Fl. Br. Ind. that it 

 may be T. vlllosa, Blume, of Java. Its place will probably have to be reconsidered 

 when better specimens are available. 



6. Tylophora Wallichii, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 45 (1883). A 

 slender twining shrub ; branchlets slender, terete, younger puberulous. 

 Leaves thickly coriaceous when green, chartaceous when dry ; ovate- 

 lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acuminate at apex, rounded or slightly 

 cordate at base ; both surfaces glabrous except the nerves beneath when 

 young ; margins slightly recurved ; 3 to 6 in. long, "5 to 2 in. broad ; 

 midrib rather stout, raised beneath, with a few minute glands at the 

 base above the petiole ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, curving upwards to 

 join in a rather obscure intramarginal looped nerve ; reticulations trans- 

 verse, obscure ; petiole slender, puberulous, '75 to 1 in. long, articulate 

 at the base. Inflorescence lateral from between the bases of the petioles, 

 often longer than the leaves, divaricately branched, subsessile or on 

 peduncles -5 to '75 in. long ; branches slender, long ; flower-clusters 

 racemose, pubescent, with many minute ovate-acute sheathing per- 

 sistent bracts ; pedicels capiUary, -3 to 4 in. long, pubescent ; buds 

 globose ; flowers pale yellow. Calyx membranous ; lobes ovate-oblong, 

 acute, o in. long, ciliate, pubescent without ; scales minute. Corolla 

 rotate-campanulate ; tube -05 in. long ; lobes ovate-oblong, acute, "1 in. 

 long, thin, 5-nerved. Coro7za-processes thick, rounded, fleshy, ending 

 in a cuspidately acute point, reaching to the level of the style-apex. 

 Anthers narrow ; appendages very short ; pollen-masses very minute, 

 nearly globose, attached by very slender straight caudicles to the minute 

 pollen-carriers. Style-apex pentagonal; top convex. Follicle 1, recurved 

 to the horizontal, 3 '5 to 4 in. long, 1 in. broad, oblong-ellipsoid 

 ventricose, obtuse at the tip ; pericarp light green, pale brown and 

 chartaceous when dry and longitudinally striate. Seeds flattened, -5 in. 

 long, broadly ovate, with a broad wing; testa brown, shining; tip 

 truncate, bearing a 1 in. long white silky coma ; cotyledons broadly 

 ovate, 3-nerved, '15 to -2 in. in diameter ; radicle cylindric, '075 in. long. 

 Gymnema Wallichii, in part, Wight Contrib. 46. 6r. sagittatum, Wall. 

 Cat. 8194b. 



Penaxg : in Pulau Betong Eeserve, Curtis 933. Peeak : Wray 

 3047 ; Kings Collector 5259, 5439. Malacca: Griffith; Maingay (K.D.) 

 1142. SiNGAPOEE : Wallich 8194b. 



7. TtIjOPhoea peeakensis. King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing 

 shrub ; branches stout, fleshy ; branchlets smooth, striate, pale brown 



