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pul)escent in the upper part within or nearly glal^rous, puherulous 

 without ; lobes as long as or a little shorter than tube, with a dense tuft 

 of pale bristles at the base within, otherwise glabrous. Stamens 

 inserted at the top of the tube ; filaments very short ; anthers ovoid, 

 •03 in. long, densely hairy, especially with retrorse hairs at the base. 

 Ovary conoidal, glabrous, gradually attenuated into a rather thick style 

 •05 in. long ; stigma capitate. Berry ovoid, 1 in. long by -75 in. in 

 diam. ; pericarp of two layers, outer pergamaceous, shining, thin, inner 

 hard, woody. Seed 1, oblong ; albumen horny, copious ; cotyledons 

 ovate-acute, strongly nerved, •! in. long ; radicle thick. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 379, 1080 ; Clarke in Hook. f. El. Br. Ind. IV. 89. 

 S. Gauthierana, Pierre MS. in Herb. Kew. 



Penang : Curtis 1515 ; King's Collector 1539. Malacca : Griffith 

 (K.D.) 3724. — DiSTEiB. Burma (Tenasserim or Andamans, Heifer 3724 ; 

 Tavoy, Shaikh Mokim 336), Cambodia. 



8. Steychnos septemnervis, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 88 

 (1883). A climbing shrub ; branches stout, obscurely angled, pale 

 brown, sparsely lenticellate, swollen at the nodes and prominently 

 ringed ; tendrils none (or not known !). Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic, 

 shortly acuminate at apex, attenuate at base, glabrous on both surfaces ; 

 2^5 to 4^5 in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. broad ; 5- to 7-ribbed ; midrib stout, 

 more or less raised on both surfaces ; inner pair of ribs from about '25 in. 

 above the base, strong, acutely angled (about 10° at first) with the mid- 

 rib and curving upwards to the apex, looped in the upper half, next 

 pair much less conspicuous ; outer pair faint or absent ; main nerves 

 many pairs, arched between the midrib and first side ribs ; reticula- 

 tions strong, prominent on both surfaces ; petiole ^3 to "4 in. long. 

 Cymes axillary, sessile, many-flowered, reaching 5 in. in length but 

 usually shorter, rusty-pubescent ; rachis somewhat angled ; bracts 

 small, ovate, acute, ciliate ; flowers rather large ; buds oblong-ob- 

 ovoid. Calyx very small ; lobes ovate, acute or obtuse, ciliate, '05 in. 

 long. Coro^^a-tube campanulate, "15 in. long, glabrous without, pube- 

 scent within in upper part and with villous tufts at the throat ; 

 lobes •I in. long, recurved, pubescent within. Stamens inserted at 

 the top of the tube ; filaments short, villous, '025 in. long ; anthers 

 oblong, apiculate, '05 in. long, exsert, villous. Ovary conical, villous, 

 gradually narrowed into a -15 in. long exsert style, villous below ; 

 stigma capitate or obsoletely lobed. Berry rather small, reaching 

 •5 in. in length, ovoid; pericarp smooth, crustaceous, thin. Seed 1, 

 flat, round. 



Penang : at Penara Bukit, Curtis 1021. Malacca : Maingay 

 (K.D.) 1036. 



