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nations, the base cuneate or rounded, both surfaces glabrous ; main 

 nerves 5 or 6 pairs, spreading, curving, prominent on the lower surface ; 

 length 4 to 7 in., breadth T75 to 3'25 in., petiole "2 to "4 in. Panicles 

 axillary, cymose, pedunculate, much shorter than the leaves, paberulous, 

 minutely bracteolate. Flowers *3 in. in diam., on thin pedicels longer 

 than themselves. Calyx cupular, puberulous, with 5 broad shallow 

 obtuse teeth. Petals 5, much longer than the calyx, lanceolate, puber- 

 ulous on the lower, glabrous on the upper surface. Disc deep, fleshy, with 

 a broad ring of minute hairs on its upper half, deeply scooped out on 

 the upper surface to receive the small 3-celled ovary ; the 3 stamens 

 attached to the margin of the disc, their filaments flat and much re- 

 curved ; anthers small, rounded. Carpels usually 2, flat, oblong, obtuse, 

 sometimes obovate-oblong and emarginate at the apex, striate, 2 - 5 to 4 

 in. long. Seeds 2 to 3 in. long, the wing large and thinly membranous. 

 Miq. Fl. Tnd. Bat. I, pt. 2 p. 599 : Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 257. H. 

 lanceolata, Ham. Wall. Cat. 4214. H. grandiflora, "Wall. Cat. 42J5. H. 

 obtusifolia, Laws, (in part but not of Roxb.) in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 624. 



South Andaman : King's Collector. Perak : King's Collector. 

 Wray : common. Distrib. Burma, Chittagong, ' Assam, Sikhim, Terai. 



Flowers of Chittagong and Assam specimens of this which I have 

 dissected agree perfectly with Korthal's figure. Most of the specimens 

 from the other localities cited are in fruit only ; but their leaves agree 

 so absolutely with the flowering specimens from Assam as to leave no 

 doubt that they are conspecific. Heifer's No. 905 (Kew Distrib.), and 

 perhaps Griffith's Wo. 911 from the Eastern Himalaya, belong to this. 

 H. Cumingii, Laws, resembles this both in flowers and leaves ; but the 

 petals in that are glandular-hairy on the upper surface, while in this 

 the upper surface of the petals is quite glabrous. 



3. Hippocratea Cumingii, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 624. 

 Scandent ; young branches slender, brown when dry, glabrous. Leaves 

 coriaceous, broadly elliptic, acute or shortly and obtusely cuspidate, the 

 base rounded ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower reticulate. Panicles 

 axillary, shorter than the leaves, dichotomously cymose, few-flowered. 

 Flowers *45 in. in diam., their pedicels longer than themselves. Calyx 

 cupular, covered with minute deciduous tomentum, the mouth with 5 

 shallow broad rather blunt lobes. Petals much longer than the calyx, 

 linear-oblong, sub-acute, densely glandular-villous on the upper surface, 

 minutely tomentose on the lower. Disc broad, with a belt of hairs about 

 the middle. Fruit unknown. 



Malacca: Griffith. Distrib. — Philippines. 



An imperfectly known species. 



