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nate. Follicle 1, slender, 7 in. long, about -25 in. broad, nearly hori- 

 zontal ; pericarp thin, striate. Seeds -2 in. long, elliptic with a short 

 neck, truncate at tip, bearing a white silky coma 1'5 in. long ; 

 cotyledons fleshy, elliptic, "1 in. long ; radicle cylindric, 'Oo in. long. 

 N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. XVIII. 333 (1882), fig. 57. Plocostemvia 

 lasianthnm, Blume in Eumph. IV. 30, and Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 60, 

 t. XIV. ; Bot. Mag. t. 5081. 



Peeak : Scortechini 605. Selaxgor : at Semeniyeh, Goodenough 

 for Ridley 8191. — Distrib. Java, Borneo {Korthals). 



The cultivated specimen imported from Borneo, represented in Bot. Mag. t. .5081, and 

 that collected by Curtis at Wyucoop's Bay, Java, and figured by N. E. Brown in the 

 ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' appear to difl'er somewhat from the Malay Peninsula speci- 

 mens in having larger leaves cordate at the base and rather larger flowers. But we 

 fail to find any difference in the structure of the flowers. Another Java specimen 

 (Curtis No. 61) which was sent to Messrs. Veitch& Co., agrees well with the Peninsular 

 plants. 



3. HoTA CuRTisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A twining smaU epiphytic 

 undershrub, rooting at almost all the nodes on the bark of trees or on 

 rocks ; branchlets slender, pubescent. Leaves sessile, very thick ; 

 orbicular, abruptly triangular-acuminate at apex, rounded or sometimes 

 very slightly attenuate at base ; both surfaces scabrous-puncticulate 

 when dry; margin thickened ; •! to '7 in. long, -4 to '6 in. broad; midrib 

 when dry faint, other nerves invisible ; petiole none. Umbels sessile, 

 terminal or axillary, 10- to 16-flowered, on a -25 in. long tubercular 

 rachis ; pedicels slender, pubescent, -75 to 1 in. long ; flowers rather 

 large. Calyx ^vith very short tube or almost none ; lobes'oblong, ciliate, 

 viUous without, membranous, '1 in. long, much recurved; scales minute. 

 Corolla also much recurved ; tube very short, vsdth an annular spreading 

 ring (or corolline corona ?) a httle above the base ; lobes spathulate, 

 acute at the tip, minutely scurfy-puberulous, -25 in. long. Corona : 

 coroUine (see above), annular ; staminal, of 5 cucullate processes nearly 

 globose when closed, but formed of 3 lobes, the two side ones rounded, 

 the upper ovate, the three enclosing a cavity, and the whole corona 

 much overtopping the staminal-column. Staminal-column short and 

 shortly stipitate, attached at the base of the corolla-tube ; anther-cells 

 much divergent; appendages ovate, membranous, dentate ; poUen- 

 masses oblong-obtuse, about -03 in. long, attached by oblong fleshy 

 thick caudicles to the conical pollen-carriers. Style-apex shortly 

 5-angled, somewhat depressed; tip bifid, very short. Fruit not known. 



Perak : at Waterloo, 2000 ft., Curtis 2891. 



4. HoYA OBTUsiFOLiA, Wight Contrib. 38 (1834). A cHmbing 

 (epiphytic ?) shrub, with stout fleshy branches reaching -5 in. in diameter 



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