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Penang: Gurtis 4iOO, Selangor: Ridley 7422a. Perak : Wray 4157 ; 

 Bidley 7186 ; Yapp 204 ; Scortechini. 



A distinct species distinguished by its short bushy habit, and its large leaves 

 tapered to a broad cordate-auriculate base. 



14. IxoRA Scortechini, King & Gamble, n. sp. An unbranched 

 shrub about a foot in height : the stem as thick as a goose-quill, pale- 

 brown, rather rough. Leaves large, almost sessile, coriaceous, broadly 

 oblanceolate, sub-acute or blunt, narrowed from about the middle to the 

 rounded or cordate base ; upper surface brown when dry and somewhat 

 shining ; the lower pale, reticulate and dull ; main-nerves 8 to 12 pairs, 

 slightly prominent on both surfaces, curving upwards, interarching 

 length 5*5 to 9 in.; breadth 2 to 3 in.; petioles about '1 in. long or 

 absent; stipules very short, broadly triangular and with an abrupt 

 linear point. Cymes terminal, about 2 in. long (including the short 

 peduncle), the branches short, puberulous. Calyx nearly '1 in. long, 

 cylindric, with 4 very broad short blunt teeth. Corolla-tuhe 1 to 1'25 in. 

 long, narrowly cylindric, glabrous ; the limb '5 in. across with 4 blunt 

 broad oblong spreading lobes. Fruit fusiform, deeply 2-groovecl, smooth. 



Penang : Gurtis 400. Province Welleslet : Bidley 6992. Perak : 

 Scortichini 1277 ; Wray 4167 ; King's Gollector 3120. 



15. IxoRA STRICTA, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10 : Fl. Ind. 1, 379. A large 

 shrub, everywhere glabrous : young branches thicker than a crow-quill, 

 dark-brown, shining. Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate or elliptic, 

 lanceolate, rarely elliptic, acute or acuminate, the base cuneate ; upper 

 surface olivaceous when dry, the lower brown ; main-nerves 7 or 8 pairs: 

 obsolete on the upper surface, faint and interarching on the lower; 

 length 25 to 5 in. ; breadth 1*25 to 2 in. ; petiole '15 to '2 in.; stipules 

 •2 in. long, triangular, with broad bases and long linear points. Gymes 

 almost sessile, terminal, corymbose, dense, 2 or 3 in. in diam., bracteoles 

 minute. Galyx under '1 in. long, cylindric, broadly 4-lobed or sub-entire. 

 Gorolla-tuhe narrow, cylindric, '8 in. long; the limb '4 in. across, its 4 

 lobes oblong, sub-acute or obtuse, spreading or reflexed. Fruit broadly 

 fusiform, smooth. DC. Prod. IV. 486 ; W. & A. Prod. 427 ; Wight Ic. 184 ; 

 Kurz For. PI. Burma, II. 26 ; Wall. Cat. 6123; Hook. fil. fil. Br. Tnd. III. 



145. I. coccinea, Bot. Mag. 169. I. alha, Roxb. 11. cc; Wight Ic. 707. 

 Wall Cat. 6122. L hlanda, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 100; DC. 1. c, 487. 

 I. incarnata^ Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 379 : DC. I.e. 486. I. crocata^ Lindl. in 

 Bot. Reg. t. 782 ; DC. I.e. 486. I. rosea, Wall. Cat. 6124 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 2428, (not of Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 398). J. amoena, Wall. Cat. 

 6121 D.E.F.G.; Don, Gen. Syst. III. 571; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind.' III. 



146. I. denstty Wall. Oat. 6150, in ^art. 



