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acuminate, cordate at base, -4 in. long. Corona of 5 spreading processes, 

 horny when dry ; tlie lower lobe nearly hemispherical, concave above, 

 convex beneath, about -25 in. long; the upper acuminate, curved far over 

 tlie anthers. Staminal-coluvm short, thick, inserted at the base of the 

 corolla-tube ; anthers incurved, their cells parallel above, divaricate and 

 empty below ; appendages prominent, scarious, ovate-acute ; pollen- 

 masses broadly clavate, attached by means of long slender twisted caudi- 

 cles to the rather large pollen-carriers which are rounded above and 

 bifid below. Style-apex circular, saucer-shaped, with a small central 

 umbo and 5 slender rays. Follicle 1, 6 to 10 in. long, 1'5 to "2 in. in 

 diam., gibbous at base, subcylindric above, ending in an obtuse point; 

 pericarp very thick, puberulous, striate ; the endocarp woody and 

 smooth ; the follicle at length opening nearly flat. Seeds obovate, '4 in. 

 long, truncate at tip and bearing a copious white silky coma 2 to 2-5 in. 

 long ; cotyledons elliptic, -2 in. long, fleshy ; radicle cylindric, •! in. long. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 517 ; Hook. f. FL Br. Ind. IV. 58 ; Ridley in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. III. 321. H. grandiflora, Bl. MSS. ; Dene, 

 in DC. Prodr. VIII. 635. H. velutina, Wight Contrib. 35 ; Wall. Cat. 

 8150 ; Dene. I. c. 



Penang: ■? Wallich 8150 (marked " Sillet," but probably in error) ; 

 Curtis 236. Dindings : Curtis ; Scortechini 1053. Peeak : at Goping, 

 Scortechini 2009 ; at Matang, on sea coast, W7-ay 2710 ; at Larut, 

 Kunstler 3865 (leaves only) ; King's Collector 4116, 6954. Malacca : 

 Griffith 3788 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1125. Pahang : at Kwala Pahang, Bidley. 

 SiNGAPOEE : at Serangoon, Bidley 2731a. — Disteib. Java, Sumatra 

 {Teysmann 1171), Borneo {Motley 871, Burhidge), Celebes, New Guinea 

 (H. 0. Forbes 516, flow^ers 2 in. in diam.). 



We have not quoted Hook. Bot. Mag. 4969, which in some respects seems to repre- 

 sent more nearly H. ohtnsifolia rather than this. As in other species, the colom- 

 of the flower is either very variable or in doubt. Low's dra\ving in Herb. Kew shows 

 pink flowers, while Scortechini says they are white, Kunstler and Wray that they are 

 " very pale yellow," and Maingay that they are " white or yellowish with purple spots." 



8. HoYA ScoETECHiNii, King & Gamble, n. sp. An epiphytic under- 

 shrub, rooting at intervals on the bark of trees ; branchlets slender, 

 terete, pale brown. Leaves thick, fleshy, drying coriaceous ; ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded or cordate at base ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, lower minutely glandular ; margins recurved ; 2 to 

 3-5 in. long, -75 to 1-25 in. broad; nerves only visible when dry ; midrib 

 thick ; main nerves 5 to 6 pairs at an angle of 50° to 60" with the mid- 

 rib, branching early and anastomosing near the margin ; reticulations 

 transverse ; petiole stout, -2 in. long. Umbels apparently few-flowered, 



