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subequal, all yellow, curved, deeply lobed at the base bat inappendi- 

 culate. Capsule obovoid, much tapered to the pedicel, '15 in. long 

 (when dry), scabrid from the stiff, strigose, scale-like hairs. Seed 

 minute subulate. 



Perak ; Scortechini 310 ; King's Collector 8008. 



NOTE. 



I take the opportunity to describe here the nndernoted new species from 

 Borneo. 



Anerincleistus gloMeratus, King, n. sp. A shrub ; young branches, petioles, 

 main nerves of leaves and inflorescence densely covered with short, coarse, adpressed, 

 pale hairs. Leaves narrowly oblong, narrowed towards the base, the apex acuminate ; 

 upper surface glabrous but with a few scattered glands ; lower surface with a few 

 pale hairs of unequal length on the bold transverse veins ; length 3' 5 to 8 in. ; 

 breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiole *5 to 1 5 in. Panicle solitary, terminal, very narrow, 

 bearing a few very short, almost sessile, 4- to 6-flowered umbels. Flowers on pedicels 

 about half the length of the calyx-tube. Calyx-tube short, campanulate, pubescent ; 

 the mouth wide and with 4 short, triangular, acute, spreading teeth alternating 

 with tufts of hair. Petals 4, narrowly oblong, spreading. Stamens 8, equal; 

 anthers slightly lobed at the base, inappendiculate. Ovary 4-ridged, 4-celled; ovules 

 numerous. Capsule sub-globnlar. 



Borneo ; Sarawak, Hullett 257. 



A species resembling A. anisophyllus, Stapf, in the shape of its leaves. The 

 inflorescence is however very different ; and in its short subsessile panicle recalls 

 to one's memory A. Beccarianus, from which its leaves distinguish it at once. 



8. SoNERILA, Roxb. 



Low herbs, rarely half-shrubs. Leaves membranous or more or less 

 fleshy, opposite, those of a pair similar in shape, although often very 

 different in size, or distinctly heteromorphous and then often apparently 

 alternate, usually more or less oblique, 3-7-nerved from the base or 

 near the base, rarely pinnate-nerved. Flowers pink or white, in 

 scorpioid simple or pseudo-umbellate cymes, 3 -nerved. Calyx sub- 

 cylindrical, turbinate or campanulate, 3-lobed or 3-toothed. Petals ovate, 

 obovate or oblong, acute, acuminate or obtuse. Stamens 3, equal, rarely 

 6 and slightly unequal; anthers linear, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, 

 acute or (often long) acuminate, minutely 2-lobed at the base, without 

 appendages, dehiscing with apical pores. Ovary attached to the calyx- 

 tube by narrow longitudinal septa, depressed at the apex, 3-celled ; 

 style filiform ; stigma punctate or capitellate, Fruit enclosed in the 

 persistent, ultimately spongy calyx-tube and forming with it a usually 

 more or less trigonous, subcylindtical, turbinate or hemispherical false 

 capsule, dehiscing from the centre of the depressed top' with 3 valves or 

 6 fine teeth. Seeds minute, numerous, ovoid, pyramidal or clavate, 



