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9. DissocHtfiTA. anomala, King, n. sp. A creeper 15 to 20 feet 

 long ; young branches slender, slightly thickened at the nodes, at first 

 sparsely rusty stellafce-hairy, afterwards glabrous and sub-glaucous. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, the base broadly rounded, the apex shortly, 

 abruptly and bluntly acuminate, 5-nerved (the two lateral nerves 

 faint) ; upper surface glabrous ; the lower sparsely stellate-hairy on 

 the midrib and nerves, otherwise glabrous ; length 3'5 to 6*5 in. ; 

 breadth 1*75 to 2*75 in.; petiole sparsely hispid, '2 in. long. Panicles 

 axillary and terminal, the former half as long and the latter twice as 

 long as the leaves, stellate-pubescent especially at the thickened nodes ; 

 the branches divaricate, trichotomous, lax, bracteate at the divisions ; 

 the bracts *3 in. long, oblong, blunt, involute, stellate-tomentose, their 

 edges ciliate. Flowers '3 in. long, in cymes of three. Calyx-tube shorter 

 than the pedicel, narrowly campanulate, densely stellate-tomentose ; 

 the mouth without teeth, truncate, not everted. Petals glabrous, ovate, 

 acuminate, forming a pointed bud. Stamens 4, equal and all perfect, 

 subsessile, broad, blunt, the lateral basal appendages filamentous. Fruit 

 broadly campanulate, crowned by the narrow calyx-limb, glabrous, '15 

 in. in diam. 



Perak; King's Collector 2258, 10468. 



This plant forms a collecting link between the genera Anplectrum and Disso- 

 chseta as they are defiued in this work. It agrees in externals with Anplectrum 

 pallens, and has the 4 stamens of that genus, but their anthers have the elongate 

 basal processes so well developed in Dissochteta and not at all represented in Anplec- 

 trum. 



10. Dissoch^ta Scortechinii, King, n. sp. Scandent ; young 

 branches slender, the nodes swollen and transversely ridged, thinly 

 clothed with minute, pale, stellate hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, slightly 

 cordate at the broad base, the apex with a short, blunt point ; 5-nerved 

 (the lateral pair small) ; upper surface glabrous ; lower rusty in colour 

 and bearing sparse, white, stellate hairs longer than those on the stem ; 

 length 25 to 3*75 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 2 in.; petiole densely rusty stellate- 

 tomentose, *1 in. long. Panicle solitary, narrow, terminal, shorter than 

 the leaves, densely rusty stellate-tomentose, the branches short and 

 few-flowered, bearing many oblong, blunt or spathulate, pale, 3-nerved 

 almost glabrous bracts longer than the flower-bud, the lower ones much 

 larger. Flowers "3 in. long, their pedicels short. Calyx-tube narrowly 

 campanulate, at first densely but afterwards sparsely stellate-tomentose ; 

 the mouth truncate, without teeth, waved but not everted, glabrous. 

 Petals 4, glabrous, orbicular-ovate, acuminate, forming a pointed bud. 

 Stamens 4, all equal and perfect, short, broadly ovate, the base with two 

 long, erect, filiform appendages, the broad apex with a small, pale, 



