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transversely marked by the prominent edges of the seeds. Seeds 
many, pyriform, concave, nearly 1 cm. long, attached to a crustaceous 
boat-shaped placenta ; testa granular-rugose ; albumen conform to the 
seed, fleshy ; embryo very minute. Ridley M.S. in Herb. Calc. 
PerAK: at Lumut, in dense jungle, Ridley 8022!; at Simpit 
Dindings, Ridley 10259!; at Larut in very moist places, King’s 
Collector (Kunstler) 1964 !. 
Var. dolabrata, Gamble. Perianth with the upper lip produced 
for about 3 mm.and broadened, the lower 1 cm. long; in bud the lips 
closed up and with the tube having the form of an oblique pickaxe. 
Leaves as in type, always broadest near the base opposite the insertion 
of the petiole, above that sometimes a little indented. Flowers ‘ french 
grey, throat dark claret-brown’ (Wray); ‘lower part dark blue, middle 
greyish-white, top lighter blue ; fruit yellowish-red when ripe * (Kunst- 
ler). 
Perak: Maxwell’s Hill, Wray 2997!; Larut, 900—1100 m., 
King’s Collector 2969 !. 
There are very few flowers available for examination and no fruit. The 
stamens and column are identical with those of A. minutiflora and the leaves 
are almost exactly the same. The perianth differs, however. and when better 
material is available, it may prove to be a good species. 
3. ARISTOLOCHIA CuRTIsSi, King ex Gamble in Kew Bull. 78 
(1910). A rather small climbing shrub; branches with corky bark ; 
branchlets wiry, sulcate, twisted, glabrous. Leaves chartaceous ; 
younger ones broadly hastate ; older ones broad, deeply digitately 
3-lobed, the middle lobe oblong lanceolate acuminate mucronate. the 
side lobes spathulate rounded incurved, base cuneate; both surfaces 
glabrous, margins entire ; hastate young leaves about 10 cm. long by 
16 cm. broad, the sinus 1—3 em. deep, old leaves 10—20 em. long, 10 
—30 cm. broad, the sinuses reaching to within 2—6 em. of the base ; 
nervation pedately flabellate, 3-ribbed at the base ; the central rib the 
midrib of the middle lobe; the outer ribs at first on the margin of the 
cuneate base, then giving off two interior ribs which form the outer ribs 
of the middle lobe close to its edges, next giving off one after the other 
two ribs for the outer lobes and finally itself forming a slender 
intramarginal rib to the same ; the ribs of the outer lobes with few 
arcuate anastomosing nerves, the whole connected by transverse ner- 
vules and a netted reticulation ; petiole slender, curved, channelled, 
5—10 cm. long. Flowers in 1—3, axillary, prominently bracteate, 
racemes about 5 cm. long; rhachis zigzag; bracts amplexicaul, reddish, 
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