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in dried specimens. The number of the pistils varies from 2 to 5. There are in 

 the Kew Herbarium fruiting specimens of a plant collected by Griffith which exactly 

 resembles this except that its fruits (which are immature) are non-tuberculate and 

 are covered with a dense coatiug of loug silky tawny hairs. The same plant was 



ollected by the Calcutta Garden Collector (No. 6878), but also without flowers 

 I believe the dense hairiness of the fruit of both gatherings to be due to the irrita-' 

 tion caused by the deposit of the eggs of some insect in the young fruit. 



2. Agel^a Wallichu, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 47. A slender 

 woody creeper 20 to 50 feet long, all parts except the inflorescence 

 glabrous. Leaflets coriaceous, slightly unequal, ovate-elliptic, with 

 rounded or cuneate bases and short caudate-acuminate apices; the petio- 



uleof the terminal leaflet about I in. long, thickened near the apex- 

 the petioules of the lateral leaflets about '25 in. long; both surfaces 

 shmmg, the lower reticulate ; length 3 to 4'5 in. ; breadth 1 -5 to 225 

 in.; main nerves 2 or 3 pairs, ascending, much curved, one pair sub- 

 marginal Panicles under 1 in. long, extra-axillary, pubescent. Flowers 



r "V n .r 1 ", ° D PediCGlS l0Dger thaa thems *lves. Calyx divided for 

 three- ourths of lt s length into 5 ovate-lanceolate imbricate segments 

 sparsely pubescent externally, glabrous internally, their edges densely 

 sericeous. Petals longer and narrower than the segments of the calyx 

 glabrous, linear, sub-acute. Stamens 10, sub-equal, longer than thJ 



SSI ^n Sh r! er ^u" * hG PetalS ' PiStUs 5 ' ^ -^ -ton*. 

 Follcle usually solitary, bright red when ripe, ovoid, curved, shortly 



beaked, covered outside with short obtuse tubercles and minutely rusty. 



tomctose, inside glabrous -6 in. long. Seed oblong, black, its lower 



nalt pale and arilhform. Connaracea, Wall. Cat., 8544. 



Singapore; Wallich. Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib ) No 1275 

 Maingay No. 511, Derry, No. 69. Penang; Curtis, Nos. 1633 and 303^ 

 Perak ; Wray, No. 48, Scortechini, No. 1730, King's Collector, No 3735 

 —Distrib. Sumatra, Forbes, No. 2589. 



3. Agel^a pinnata, King n. spec. A woody climber 30 to 40 feet 

 long; young branches rusty-puberulous, striate. Leaflets 3 to 5 thinly 

 coriaceous, unequal, (the middle the largest), elliptic, broadly and 

 shortly caudate-acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cuneate • upper 

 surface glabrous except the minutely pubescent midrib; lower'surface 

 minutely sub-adpressed pubescent, the transverse veins distinct- the 

 midrib tomentose; main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, spreading and curVw 

 upwards, prominent on the lower surface, slightly impressed on the 

 upper ; length of the terminal leaflet 6 to 8 in., breadth 3 to 3-5 i n . 

 its petiolule jointed to the rachis and not longer than those of the lateral 

 slightly smaller leaflets. Panicles about 1 in. long, densely crowded in 

 the axils of the leaves, many-flowered, minutely tomentose. Flowers 

 •3 in. long, their pedicels half as long. Calyx divided to the very base 



