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larger of each pair oblanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate or elliptic, often 

 more or leas oblique, acuminate or acute, narrowed to the base ; upper 

 surface olivaceous when dry ; the lower pale brown, sometimes scurfily 

 puberulous on the short midrib and nerves ; main-nerves 5 to 8 pairs, 

 curved, ascending, obscure on the upper but slightly prominent on the 

 lower surface when dry; length 2 to 3*5 in.; breadth *7 to 1*25 in.; 

 petiole *1 to *35 in. Smaller leaf of the pair obliquely ovate-cordate, 

 or lanceolate, acute, sessile, *1 to '2 in. long. Stipules like the small 

 leaves but not so large. Cymes terminal, spreading, sometimes branch- 

 ed, solitary, usually shorter than, but sometimes as long as the leaves, 

 glabrous, with whorls of small lanceolate or ovate bracteoles in the 

 lower part of the 1 to 2 in. long peduncle and at the forks of the 

 branches. Flowers *4 in. long ; their pedicels about as long and minutely 

 bracteolate at the base. Calyx pubescent, short, campanulate, with 5 

 broadly ovate spreading lobes half as long as the tube. Corolla more 

 than twice as long as the calyx, glabrous ; its 5 lobes lanceolate, shorter 

 than the stamens, their edges waved. Anthers lanceolate, dehiscing 

 longitudinally ; connective forming narrow marginal wings and a long 

 apical appendage. Style filiform, slightly exserted; stigma clavate. 

 Capsule obconic, crowned by the broadly toothed calyx, *15 in. in diam. ; 

 seeds numerous, minute. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D. ); Maingay (K.D.) 897; Ridley 3210. 

 Perak : Wray 2197. — Distrib. Borneo. 



19. Argostemma Wrati, King n. sp. Stem procumbent, rooting 

 at the nodes in the lower half, when dry 4-angled and somewhat thicker 

 than a crow-quill, sparsely hairy in the upper, but glabrous in the lower 

 part. Leaves of the pairs very unequal, membranous ; the larger lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, narrowed and slightly unequal at the base; upper 

 surface, when dry, dark olivaceous, glabrous, the midrib broad and de- 

 pressed, the main-nerves obscure ; under surface pale, reticulate, sparsely 

 pubescent on the midrib and 6 or 7 pairs of curved ascending rather 

 distinct main-nerves ; length 2 to 3 in. ; breadth '6 to *9 in. ; petioles "3 

 to *4 in., puberulous : the smaller leaf sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 15 to '2 

 in. long. Stipules like the small leaf but not so large. Cyme terminal, 

 shorter than the leaves, pedunculate, dichotomous, few-flowered. Ped- 

 uncle about *5 in. long, glabrous, with a whorl of lanceolate glabrous 

 bracteoles at its division into the 2 short branches. Flowers "25 in. 

 long; their pedicels about as long, bracteolate at the base, pubescent. 

 Calyx campanulate, puberulous, lobes deeply-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 spreading, longer than the tube. Corolla nearly twice as long as the 

 calyx, glabrous: its 5 lobes lanceolate, slightly longer than the staminal 

 cone. Anthers linear-lanceolate, coherent by the narrow marginal wing 



