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themselves to the narrow ellipsoid pollen-caurievs. Style-apex pynimidal. 

 Follicles usually 1 only, very slender, straight, acuminate, 1'5 to 2-5 in. 

 long, -15 in. broad ; pericarp thin, smooth. Seeds almost cylindric, 

 only slightly compressed at the sides, rounded and minutely denticulate 

 below, •! in. long, truncate at tip and bearing a copious white silky 

 coma; testa thin, pale brown; albumen very scanty ; cotyledons fleshy, 

 ovate, -05 in. long from a broad base ; radicle stout, nearly as large. 

 Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. 844 ; Wight Contrib. 43 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. 

 VIII. 631 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2916 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 50. D. cunei- 

 folia, Wall. Gat. 4206 ; Dene. I. c. 633. D. spaUdata, Blume Bijdr. 1060; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 512. 



Perak : Scortechini 1188 ; King's Collector 5751. Singapoee : 

 Maingay (K.D.) 1121. — Distrib. India (E. Nepal, Sikkim, Assam and 

 southwards), Java, Borneo. 



8. Dischidia Nummularia, Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. I. 461 (1810). 

 A very slender epiphytic herb, rooting on the trunks and branches of 

 trees ; stems farinose, sometimes papillose or minutely puberulous, grey. 

 Leaves fleshy, coriaceous when dry, farinose ; orbicular, acute obtuse or 

 apiculate at apex, rounded at base or sometimes slightly cuneate ; 

 under surface more or less papillose ; margins often recurved ; -25 to 

 "75 in. in diam. ; midrib and 2 to 3 pairs main nerves much branching, 

 reticulating, scarcely visible even when dry ; petiole to -05 in. long. 

 Umbels few-flowered, lateral, on short rachises and short thick peduncles 

 or nearly sessile ; pedicels "06 in. long ; buds ovoid ; flowers scarlet. 

 Calyx-lohes minute, acute, membranous. Corolla urceolate ; tube 

 •075 in. long, globose ; throat villous within, with often retrorse hairs ; 

 lobes linear-subulate, "025 in. long, erect, thickened. Corona of 5 pro- 

 cesses attached to the base of the staminal-column, each process linear 

 below, bifid above in 2 recurved spathulate lobes. Staminal-column 

 short, conical; anther- wings conspicuous ; anther-cells parallel ; appen- 

 dages membranous, acute ; pollen-masses oblong-ellipsoid, attached by 

 broad curved caudicles as long as themselves to the small brown horny 

 pollen-carriers. Style-apex 5-lobed ; tip conical. Follicles slender, 

 curved, linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, broad near the base ("6 in. 

 when open) ; pericarp chartaceous, brown, smooth. Seeds flask-shaped, 

 •05 in. long, truncate at the tip and bearing a 1 in. long white silky 

 coma ; testa thin. Wall. Cat. 4204 ; Wight Contrib. 43 ; Dene, in 

 Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. III. 378, and DC. Prodr. VIII. 632 ; Bl. Bijdr. 

 1059 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 507 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. IV. 345 ; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 49 ; Beccari Malesia II. 2671, t. ixiii. 7 to 11 ; Prain 

 Beng. Plants 699. D. orbicularis, Dene. I. c. ; Miq. I. c. Collyris minor, 

 Vahl in Act. Soc. Hafn. VI. Ill; Wight Contrib. 67. D. GaudicJiaudU, 



