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branches slender, glabrous, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves mem- 

 branous, broadly elliptic, shortly cuspidate, entire, rounded or very 

 slightly narrowed at the base; upper surface shining, darkly 

 cinereous when dry ; the lower pale, cinereous, dull : main nerves 6 or 

 7 pairs, obsolete on the uppex% faint on the lower surface when dry ; 

 length 1'75 to 2'5 in., breadth 1 to 1'35 in.; petiole "8 to "4 in., slender. 

 Flowers '15 in. in diam., their pedicels about "2 in,, in fascicles 

 of 3 to 6 on very short axillary tubercles shorter than the 

 petioles. Calyx fleshy, sub-campanulate, deeply divided into 5 broad 

 reniform-ovate spreading teeth.. Petals sub-erect, twice as long as tlie 

 calyx-lobes, fleshy, very broadly oblong ; the apex obtuse, tlie base broad 

 and truncate. Disc cupular, fleshy, entire. Ovary broad, depressed, 3- 

 angled, surrounded by the disc, stigma small. Stamens 3, spreading ; 

 the filaments stout, slightly flattened, recurved over the edge of the disc : 

 anthers small, rounded, 2-celled. Fruit globular, nearly 2 in. in diam., and 

 bright orange when ripe, glabrous, the surface mucli corrugated when 

 dry especially towards the apex ; pedicel very stout, "5 in. long. 

 Perak: Wray, No. 2542. 



12. Salacia Kunstlert, King, n. sp. A scandent shrub ; young 

 branches cinereous, glabrous, lenticellate, the bark striate when dry. 

 Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-obhmceolate, shortly 

 cuspidate, much'narrowed to the base, both surfaces glabrous, the lower 

 brown when dry, the transverse reticulations very distinct ; main nerves 

 about 7 pairs, spreading and curving upwards ; length 3'5 to 5'5 in., 

 breadth 1*75 to 2*3 in., petiole "15 in. Flowers '15 in. in diam., on thin 

 pedicels '5 in. long, in fascicles of 3 to 6 from very small bracteolate 

 axillary tubercles. Calyx small, cupular, spreading, deeply divided into 

 6 concave ovate-orbicular teeth with coarsely ciliate edges. Petals 5, 

 orbicular, spreading, much larger than the calyx-teeth. Bisc flat, thin, 

 annular, not toothed. Stamens 3, attached to the inner edge of the disc ; 

 the filaments very broad, triangular, recurved, anthers small. Ovary 

 buried in the disc. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : King's Collector, No. 683, (collected only once and probably 

 a rare plant) . 



13. Salacia flavescens, Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1872, 

 pt. 2, p. 300. A scandent shrub 40 to 60 feet long : young branches 

 slender, black when dry and with numerous minute split warts. Leaves 

 opposite, coriaceous, oblong, sub-acute, the edges entire and slightly 

 revolute when dry, the base rounded, almost sessile : both surfaces, but 

 especially the lower, yellowish when dry ; main nerves 6 to 9 pairs, 

 spreading, interarching far from the edge : length 4 to 7 in., breadth 

 1-25 to 2-5 in. ; petiole about -2 in., stout. Flowers about -15 in. in 



