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anther-cells parallel above, divergent and empty below ; appendages 

 scarious, acute or acuminate ; pollen-masses oblong, truncate at top, 

 thin on the outer margin, attached by very short thick caudicles to the 

 rather long obconical pollen-carriers. Style-apex 5-angled, depressed, 

 with a short conical apiculus. Follicles sublinear, falcate, 6 in. long, 

 •75 in. broad ; pericarp thick, apparently -25 in. or more. Seech oblong, 

 •25 in. long. Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 636; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 518 ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 61. H. orbicidata, Wall, in Wight Contrib. 

 36 ; Wall. Cat. 8151 ; Dene. I. c. 635 ; Miq. I. c. 519. " Sussuela 

 esculeiita," Eumph. Herb. Amb. V. 467, t. 175, f. z. 



Penang : at Pulau Boetong, Curtis 928. Peeak : Wray 2718 ; Scor- 

 techini 118. Malacca : Griffith 3787 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1130. Pahang : 

 at Pekan; Bidley 1619. Singapore : Ridley 1626, 2733 — Disteib. 

 Bm-ma (at Prome, Wallich 8151), Java, Amboyna. 



13. HoYA Maingayi, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 62 (1883). A trail- 

 ing epiphytic shrub, sending out rootlets along its stem ; nodes much 

 swollen ; branches stout ; branchlets terete, pale brown. Leaves very 

 thick, fleshy, coriaceous when dry ; elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate at apex, long acuminately narrowed at base ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, dull wdien dry ; margins recurved ; 7 to 9 in. long, 

 2-5 to 3 "5 in. broad; midrib slender but prominent when dry, with a 

 gland or enlargement at the base above the petiole ; main nerves about 

 5 pairs, prominent w^hen dry, especially above, at about 60° to 70° with 

 the midrib, nearly straight at first, then branching and forming a rough 

 intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves few ; reticulations irregular, 

 distant; petiole thick, -25 to "5 in. long. Umbels many-flowered (20 to 

 30), on a very short tubercular rachis at the end of a thick peduncle '3 

 to 1 in. long ; pedicels very slender, -5 to 1 in. long ; buds obconical, 

 pentagonal, concave above, -25 in. broad ; flowers pale pink ; corona 

 W'hite. Calyx small, pale pink with red tips, red-scabrous-punctate 

 without, glabrous within ; lobes '03 in. long, obtuse, ciliate ; no scales. 

 Corolla -5 to -75 in. broad when open ; lobes triangular, villous within 

 with pale crispate hairs. Corona of 5 processes ; outer lobe ovate, acute, 

 horizontal, bi-cleft, concave above wnth central ridge, 2-valved below ; 

 upper of a short acute tooth shorter than the anther-tip. Staminal- 

 column short, attached at the base of the corolla-tube ; anther-cells 

 divergent ; appendages scarious, acuminate, inciirved ; pollen-masses 

 flattened, oblong-falcate, w^axy, attached by short caudicles embracing 

 their bases to the conical pollen-carriers. Style-apex 5-angled, angles 

 acute, tip conical. Fruit not known in the ripe state, when immature 

 4 to 5 in. long, -25 in. broad, acuminate, tip recurved ; pericarp smooth. 



Peeak : Scortechini 584. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1136. 



