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chartaceous ; lanceolate, bluntly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces or the younger ones slightly velutinous ; 3 to 

 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib prominent beneath ; main nerves 

 5 to 6 pairs, the lowest pair very inconspicuous, close to the margin, 

 the next at about -25 in. from the base and 40° with the midrib, curving 

 up to and along the margin, but not meeting the remaining 3 to 4 which 

 curve at about 50° and meet in intramarginal loops ; transverse nervules 

 arched; reticulations netted; petiole -25 to -Sin. long, curved. Panicles 

 very long, grey-pubescent, the lower branches leafy with ordinary 

 leaves, the upper ones with gradually smaller leaves becoming bract- 

 like; the branches very long, up to 2 ft., slender, scarcely 1 in. broad, 

 bearing distant opposite pairs of 3-flowered capitate cymules each 

 supported by a pair of reduced leaves and furnished with 6 spathulate 

 bracts usually longer than the flowers and enlarging in fruit ; flowers 

 sessile, the corollas dark purple, the calyx and bracts dull red. Calyx 

 tubular, 10 -nerved, velutinous-pubescent without, densely villous with- 

 in, -1 to '15 in. long; lobes 5, triangular, short. CoroZZa puberulous 

 tube cylindric, with a ring of hairs near the mouth within, -25 in. long 

 lobes 5, subequal, rounded. Stamens shortly exsert ; filaments slender 

 anthers reniform, the cells somewhat divergent. Ovary pyriform, gla- 

 brous ; style slender. Drupe ovoid or obovoid, sometimes constricted 

 above, included in the enlarged prominently ribbed calyx, and supported 

 by the 6 oblong- spathulate giabrescent enlarged bracts, which reach 

 •5 to '75 in. long and "15 to "3 in. broad, and have 3 prominent nerves 

 joined by transverse nervules ; exocarp leathery. Seed 1, globose, 

 completely filling the lower part of the cavity of the drupe, the upper 

 part empty; cotyledons •! in. in diam., including between them the 

 remains of the placenta. Griff. Notul. IV. 182 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 II. 910 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 61. Gongea Jackiana, 

 Wall. Cat. 1735, partly. 



Pbnang: at Ayer Etam, 1000 ft., Curtis 210. Peeak: at Tapa and 

 Jenah, Wray 683, 1383, 1752; at Gunting Bidai, Bidley 7598; at 

 Salam, Scortechini 1119 ; in open jungle up to 500 ft., Eunstler (King's 

 Collector) 160, 1098, 1623, 2474. Selangor : Semangko Pass, Bidley 

 12086, 12088. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 6009,1; Maingay (K.D.) 

 1196 ; at Sungei Udang, Derry 585. Johore : at Bukit Kayara, Bidley 

 11347. Singapore: Kampar jungles, Desc/iamj3s. — Distrib. Sumatra 

 (Forbes, 3083). 



3. Sphenodesme barbata, SchauerinDC. Prodr. XI. 623 (1847). A 

 cli.mbing shrub ; branches dark brown, rough, lenticellate ; innovations, 

 branchlets and inflorescence patently rufous-hirsute. Leaves charta- 

 ceous ; elhptic or elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, suddenly and 



