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gradually broadening into the blade. Flowers hermaphrodite (?) in 
racemes up to 2 cm. long, fascicled 2 to 3 together in the axils of the 
leaves. Perianth-tube enclosing the ovary; lobes 5, triangular, 1 
mm. long, persistent in fruit. Disk slightly concave, 5-angled, with 
the 5-lobed stigma in the centre. Drupe suborbicular, 8 mm. long, 
7 mm. broad, exocarp fleshy, the endocarp rugose, obscurely chan- 
nelled, with many protuberances into the albumen within. Dendro- 
trophe plurinervis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 1096 ? 
PERAK: at Gunong Batu Pateh, 1300—1400 m. alt., Wray 278!. 
-—Distris. Sumatra, Teysmann. 
The description herein given is taken from Wray’s specimens and the 
suggested identification was first made after reading Miquel’s description of his 
D. plurinervis in the Fl. ind. Bat. By the courtesy of the authorities at Kew, 
I was enabled to examine the type specimen, lent from the Herbarium at 
Utrecht, and the examination only confirms my doubt. The type specimen is 
poor indeed, consisting now of only slender branchlets and a few leaves in poor 
condition, the branchlets, which bear the appearance of having had suckers, are 
smoother and the leaves are rather thinner and more nearly orbicular than in 
Wray’s specimen, but the agreement seems sufficiently close to make it un- 
desirable at present to consider Wray’s plant as a new species. 
5. Henstowia Lopsrana, A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 631 (1857). A 
climbing parasitic shrub reaching 4—5 m. in length; branches 
usually rough, but often nearly smooth, sometimes striate, dark 
brown when dry, uppermost angular, nodose. Leaves coriaceous; 
broadly obovate to orbicular, rounded at apex, attenuate and almost 
cuneate at base; both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining, the lower 
dull and sometimes puncticulate, usually dark brown when dry; 
margins reflexed ; 2:5—6 cm. long, 2—4 cm. broad; ribs usually 3, 
the outer pair sometimes bifurcated ; nerves very few, irregular and 
chiefly between the outer ribs and the margin; petiole broad, 4—6 
mm. long, bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Flowers 
minute; 3 in fascicles of racemes up to 6 mm. long in the axils of 
the leaves, bracts minute, caducous, buds clavate, convex at top, 
pedicels scarcely 1 mm. long; ¢ also in fascicled racemes but of few 
flowers, the floral bracts obovate, 2 mm. long; pedicels very short. 
Perianth tube in & very short, in $ enclosing the ovary, the lobes 
persistent in fruit. Diskin & flat or concave; in # annular, thick, 
surrounding the columnar 5-lobed stigma. Stamens with the con: 
nective of the anthers produced in a rounded apiculus. Drupe 
globose, 5mm. in diam., obscurely 5-furrowed and rugose ; cotyledons 
