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a wavy nerve close to the edge ; 5 to 7 in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. broad; 

 nerves very prominent and raised on both surfaces when dry ; midrib 

 stout, with a large gland just above the petiole ; main nerves about 

 5 to 7 pairs besides the marginal one, at about 60° with the midrib, 

 nearly straight to join a second and prominent looped intramarginal 

 nerve ; secondary nerves many, irregular ; reticulations irregular, 

 netted; petiole very thick, -25 to -5 in. long. JJynhds very many- 

 flowered, without any prominent tubercular rachis ; peduncles '75 to 

 2 in. long, rather slender ; pedicels almost capillary, -5 to "75 in. long ; 

 buds 5-angied, hemispheric below, flattened and depressed above, "25 in. 

 across ; flowers with cream-coloured and pink corolla and waxy-white 

 corona. Calyx thin, nearly hyaline, with a few brown veins ; lobes 

 obtuse, '05 in. long, pubescent within. Corolla 4 in. broad when open, 

 pubescent within ; lobes triangular-ovate-acute, usually inflexed. 

 Corona of 5 spreading inflated processes ; the lower lobes ovate-acute, 

 concave at first, afterwards more or less ridged, 2-winged below ; the 

 upper lobe erect, short, acute. Staminal-colmnn short, attached to the 

 top of the corolla-tube ; anther-cells divergent ; appendages short, 

 rounded, scarious ; pollen-masses oblong-falcate, obtuse at tip, attached 

 by very short thick caudicles to the conical pollen-carriers. Style-apex 

 5-angled, with 5 rays leading to a short apiculus. Follicle 1, very 

 slender, 7*5 in. long, -25 in. broad, straight, acuminate ; pericarp thin, 

 glabrous, striate. Seeds cylindric, '3 in. long, acute at base, truncate at 

 tip, and bearing a 1 to 1-5 in. long silky coma ; testa very thin, brown ; 

 cotyledons fleshy, lanceolate, "15 in. long ; radicle cylindric, -1 in. long. 

 Wall. Cat. 8166 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 638; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 527 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 62. 



Peeak : Wray 2724 ; King's Collector 4800. Singapoee : Wallich 

 8166. — DiSTEiB. Siam? (Finlayson). 



The specimens in the Kew Herbaiiunx have no flowers, but we see no reason to 

 doubt the identification of the leaves of our specimen. ' 



18. HoYA RiDLEYi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A twining epiphytic 

 undershrub, rooting at intervals on the bark of trees ; branchlets pale, 

 terete, lenticellate, rather slender when dry. Leaves fleshy, coriaceous 

 when dry, variable ; ovate or ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute at 

 apex, rounded or narrowed or sometimes cuneate at base ; both surfaces 

 glabrous ; margins recurved ; 3 to 5 in. long, 1-25 to 1-75 in. broad ; 

 midrib slender, faint, as are the nerves generally, even when dry ; main 

 nerves about 5 to 6 pairs, the lowest pair starting from the base and 

 curving along the margin, the others nearly at right angles, quickly 

 branching and joining the marginal one ; reticulations irregularly 



