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the base. Flowers fleshy, 1 to 1'25 in. long, on thick pedicels arranged 

 in small sessile cymclets crowded in a terminal, pedunculate, sometimes 

 interrupted, raceme, from 1-5 to 6 in. long ; peduncle of the raceme 1-5 

 to 4 in. long ; pedicels of the individual flowers -2 to -25 in. long, bear- 

 ing at their bases several broad, short, bracteoles. Calyx obovoid, -25 to 

 ■35 in. long, cleft half-way into 5 broad subrotund lobes. Corolla -85 in. 

 to 1 in. long, widely funnel-shaped ; the limb -75 to -9 in. across, 

 divided into 5 blunt oblong spreading lobes -25 in. long ; tube only 

 •2 to -3 in. long, abruptly expanding at the throat. Stamens 5, included ; 

 the filaments slender. Anthers broadly elliptic, marginate, deeply cleft 

 at the base. Ovary narrowly elliptic ; style much thicker than and 

 about as long as the filaments ; stigma capitate. Fruit ellipsoid, 

 smooth, -5 in. long. DC. Prodr. IX. 29 ; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 I. 99 ; Kurz Eor. Fl. II. 205 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. IV. 367 ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 84. F. coarctata, Blume Eumph. II. 33, and 

 Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1. 170. F. volubilis, Jack in Eoxb. I.e. 36; DC. I.e. 

 30 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 367. F. morindcefoUa, Blume Eumph. II. 32, 

 t. 73, fig. 2, and t. 79, and Mus. Bot. I. c. 169 ; DC. I. c. 29; Clarke I. e. 

 F. appendiculata, F. cuspidata, F. robusta, Blume Mus. Bot. I. c. 169, 

 170. F. Thioaitesii, F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral. II. 137. KuUia 

 morindcsfoUa, Eeinw. in Blume Bijdr. 777. Kentia morindafolia, Steud- 

 Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, I. 845. Utania morindcefolia, G. Don Gen. Hist. 

 Dichl. PL IV. 663. Willughheia raceviosa, Spreng. Syst. curcepost. 71. 



In all the provinces : very common. — Distbib. Malayan Archipelago, 

 Burma. 



Vae. pauciflora, King & Gamble. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; raceme 

 lax, its rachis slender. Floioers solitary or in 2- to 3-flowered cymes, 

 not crowded. 



Peeak: Wray 1960; King's Collector 101, 1926, 3016, 3242; 

 Scortechini 112. Singapoee : Bidley 6315, 8917. — Disteib. Sumatra 

 {Forbes 1927), Java. 



10. Fage^a ligusteina, Blume Eumph. II. 33 (1836). A shrub, all 

 parts glabrous ; young branches twice as thick as a crowquill, terete, 

 pale yellowish-brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic to elliptic- 

 oblong, apex shortly and rather bluntly acuminate, base cuneate ; both 

 surfaces pale yellowish-brown when dry ; main nerves about 4 pairs, 

 spreading at first, then ascending to form wide arches "15 to '2 in. from 

 the edge, slightly conspicuous on the lower surface, very faint on 

 the upper ; midrib stout on the lower surface, slightly channelled on 

 the upper ; length 3 to 3-75 in., breadth 1 to 2 in.; petiole -25 to 3 in. 

 long. Floioers 1*15 in. long, on thick pedicels less than -1 in. long, 

 5 to 10 together in simple or shortly branched terminal or axillary 



