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simple, erect, bearing, about or below the middle, a pair of lanceolate 

 bracts about '2 in. to '4 in. long and, at the base of the peduncle, a whorl 

 composed of a single pair of very unequal thin membranous (when dry) 

 leaves and a pair of stipules; the Larger leaf broadly ovate, shortly 

 acuminate, the base rounded or cordate; when dry the upper surface 

 dark brown, the midrib broad and channelled, the nerves elevated; 

 lower surface pale brown, the midrib and 5 or 6 pairs of spreading 

 slightly curved nerves slightly prominent ; length 3 to 6 in. ; breadth 1*5 

 to 3 in. ; petiole '4 to *8 in. Smaller leaf sessile, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 1-nerved, '2 to *5 in. long. Stipules similar to smaller leaf. Cymes 

 terminal, simply or compoundly and laxly umbellate, few- or many- 

 flowered; peduncle slender, 1*5 to 8 in. long, with a whorl of narrow 

 bracteoles at the origius of the branches. Flowers narrow in bud, *25 

 in. long ; their slender pedicels slightly longer, sometimes lengthening 

 in fruit. Calyx under *1 in. long, campanulate, with broad, blunt, thick, 

 short, spreading lobes. Corolla narrow in bud, more than twice as long 

 as the calyx ; its 5 lanceolate lobes slightly shorter than the erect stamin- 

 al cone. Anthers lanceolate, the cells narrowly linear, cordate at the 

 base, edged by the cohering wings formed by the connective and sur- 

 mounted by membranous, flat, apical appendage longer than themselves : 

 filaments short, thick, curved. Capsule hemispheric, crowned by the 

 rather large calyx, subglabrous, '1 in. in diam., 2-celled, dehiscence 

 circumscissile. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 45. 



Johor : Ridley 3730. Penang : Xing ; Curtis 990 ; King's Collector 

 2276. Malacca : Maingay (K.D. 895). 



10. Argostemma unipolioloide, King n. sp. Rhizome woody: 

 stem fleshy when fresh, glabrous, thinner than a goose-quill and angled 

 when dry, 3 to 7 in. high, bearing one or more pairs of lanceolate, 

 glabrous bracts about '25 in. long, and at the base of the peduncle a pair 

 of very unequal membranous leaves and a pair of stipules all in a whorl ; 

 the longer leaf sessile, broadly ovate or ovate-rotund, shortly acuminate, 

 the base rounded or cordate ; upper surface dark brown when dry, with 

 sparse, coarse, glandular hairs or (in var. glabra) glabrous; lower surface 

 pale brown, the broad midrib and main-nerves sparsely glandular-pubes- 

 cent, otherwise glabrous ; main-nerves 9 to 14 pairs, curved, spreading, 

 slightly prominent on both surfaces (when dry) but chiefly on the lower; 

 length 5*5 to 10 in. ; breadth 3*5 to 65 in. ; smaller leaf sessile, narrowly 

 ovate, acute, about '5 in long ; the stipules similar but usually narrower, 

 inflorescence terminal, solitary, pedunculate, paniculately umbellulate, 

 lax, usually many flowered ; peduncle and branches glabrous, fleshy 

 when fresh and somewhat stout; bracteoles in whorls (usually of 4), 

 oblong obtuse, concave, connate at the base, about *3 in. long. Flowers 



