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smooth. Seech oblong, -25 in. long, not winged, truncate at tip, and 

 bearing a 1 in. long white silky coma ; testa very thin, pale brown, 

 smooth ; cotyledons oblong, -05 in. long ; radicle cylindric, -075 in. 

 long. Wall. Cat. 8156 a ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 637 ; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 54. 



Penang : at Balik Pulau, Curtis 689 ; on Mount Elvira, Md. Haniff 

 for Curtis. — Disteib. Tenasserim {Wallich 8156 a). 



20. HoYA EEVOLUTA, Wight MS. ; Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 55 

 (1883). A twining epiphytic undershrub, occasionally rooting from the 

 nodes ; branchlets slender, terete, glabrous. Leaves very thick and 

 fleshy ; ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rather abruptly 

 acute and attenuate at base ; both surfaces glabrous, very pale when 

 dry and more or less shining ; margins strongly recurved ; 1-5 to 3 in. 

 long, -75 to 1 in. broad ; midrib and main nerves (3 to 4 pairs at about 

 60°) only occasionally, and then very faintly, visible when dry ; petiole 

 very thick, -1 to "15 in. long. Umbels on a 2 to 4 in. long peduncle, 

 ending in a thick strobilate rachis '5 in. long with cushion-like minute 

 bracts ; pedicels of various lengths, '25 to 1 in. long, filiform ; buds 

 small, round, depressed, "1 in. in diam. ; flowers small, pink, or white 

 with pink tips. Calyx rotate ; lobes oblong, obtuse, "02 in. long ; scales 

 small, flat. Corolla "125 in. in diam., with a slight raised fold at the 

 mouth of the tube ; lobes triangular, as long as tube. Corona of 5 

 membranous processes united into a conical vertically 5-lobed column, 

 each again lobed and produced upwards in an acute point. Staminal- 

 column very shortly stalked ; anthers inflexed ; appendages acuminate, 

 membranous ; pollen-masses oblong, obtuse, attached by short thick 

 caudicles to the small pollen-carriers. Style-apex deeply 5-lobed, with 

 a conical apiculus. Fruit not known. H. ovalifolia, Wall. Cat. 8160b. 



Peeak : in Larut 3962 and at Eelan Tujor, Wray 1902 ; Scortechini. 

 Malacca: Griffith; Maingay (K.B.) 1127, 1129, 1123 (^ar^. Singa- 

 POEE : Wallich 8160b. 



Wray No. 3962, from Blanda, Mabok Plains, Larut, is a fruiting specimen which 

 may possibly belong to H. revoluta, Wight ; but the leaves are lanceolate and not 

 ovate, and the flowers are described as yellow instead of pink. The following is the 

 description : — 



A climbing undershrub ; branches terete, pale brown. Leaves fleshy, coriaceous 

 when dry ; lanceolate, acuminate at apex, narrowed at base ; glabrous on both sur- 

 faces ; margins strongly recurved ; l-o to 2 in. long, -5 to -75 in. broad ; midrib and 

 main nerves only very faintly visible when dry, the latter curving upwards at an acute 

 angle ; petiole very thick, '25 in. long on a much enlarged base. Floioers not seen. 

 Follicle lanceolate, poniard-shaped, acutely angled, 2-5 in. long, -4 in. broad ; pericarp 

 thick. Seeds very small, •! in. long, trigonous-oblong with a broad truncate apex, 

 bearing a white silky coma 1 to 1*5 in. long ; testa thin, brown ; albumen rather thick; 



