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elliptic, rather suddenly and sharply acuminate, the base more or less 

 cuneate ; lower surface pale brown when dry, the upper olivaceous ; 

 main nerves about 6 pairs, carved, ascending, faint ; length 4 - 5 to 5 

 in., breadth P85 to 2 - 5 in., petiole '3 in. Cymes axillary, condensed, 

 sessile, not much longer than the petioles, 6- to 8-flowered. Flowers 25 

 in. in diam., sessile. Sepals 4 or 5, narrowly reniform, with dark coarse 

 teeth. Petals 4 or 5, larger than the sepals, sub-rotund, fleshy, with 

 sub-entire membranous edges. Stamens 4 or 5, slightly shorter than 

 the ovary, much shorter than the petals ; anther-cells divaricate at 

 the base ; the filaments flattened, broad and united into a tube in their 

 lower half. Ovary 2-celled, produced into the long cylindro-conic 

 glabrous style ; stigma capitate, faintly 2-lobed. Fruit glabrous, ovoid, 

 tapering to apex and base, the style and calyx persistent, length - 6 to 

 *7 in., its peduncle '2 in. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), rTo. 945/2. Penang: Curtis 

 Nos. 345, 968. Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 1333, 1582, 4193. 



2. Microteopis discolor, Wall. Cat. 4337. An erect shrub or 

 small tree ; young branches thin, terete, smooth, dark-coloured when 

 dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, much acuminate, 

 entire, the base acute ; both surfaces dull when dry, the lower pale : 

 main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending, faint ; length 35 to 45 in., 

 breadth 1 to P75 in., petiole "25 to '3 in. Cymes '5 to '75 in. long or 

 less, slightly extra-axillary, spreading, divaricate, 8- to 10-flowered, 

 bracteolate. Flowers - 1 in. in length, subsessile. Sepals narrowly reni- 

 form, unequal, the edges minutely ciliolate. Petals much larger than 

 the sepals, broadly oblong-ovate, rather concave, with a slight central 

 ridge, glabrous. Anthers 5, ovoid, with short filaments inserted on a 

 thin hypogynous disc. Ovary longer than the stamens, 2-celled, tapering 

 into the thick conical style : stigma truncate, 2-lobed. Fruit sub- 

 globular, glabrous, - 3 in. long. Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 251 ; Lawson 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 614 ; Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 152. Cassine 

 discolor, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, ii, 378. Celastrinea ? Wall. 

 Cat. 9014. Fuonymus garcinifolius, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 628. 



Penang, in damp ravines on West Hill, elevat. 2,000 feet, Curtis 

 rTo. 1727 ; also on Government Hill. — Distrib. Sub-tropical Himalaya, 

 Khasia Hills, Burma. 



A species very common along the base of the Himalaya and the 

 Khasia Hills and in Burma ; but found in these provinces only in 

 Penang. Mr. Curtis's specimens differ from those from British India 

 in having rather smaller flowers and fruit, and much shorter filaments ; 

 otherwise they agree perfectly. 



3. Microtropis bival vis, Wall. Cat. 4340. A bush or small tree; 

 J. ii. 44 



