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It is difficult, in the absence of flowers, to distinguish this by characters from C. 

 gelonioides ; the leaves are larger, 4 inches long, more oblong, more shortly and sharply 

 acuminate, of a brown colour when dry, with very faint slender nerves, and they are less 

 narrowed at the base. The fruit, judging from Wallich's specimen, is smaller, though 

 as densely hoary and of the same shape, and the epioarp dehisces in the same way. 



3. C. longripetala, Turcz in Bvll. Mosc. 1863, pt. i. 611; branches 

 angular pustular, youn^ densely tomentose leaves elliptic or elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate acuminate silkily hairy beneath, especially on the nerves and 

 pubescent on the nerves above, old scabrid beneath, cymes densely 

 tomentose, male lax small-flowered, female short with fewer denser flowers 

 that have longer petals. 



Tenasseeim; at Mergui, Oriffth, Heifer. 



Apparently a monoecious climber; bark of branchlets pale and densely pustular, 

 youngest fulvous-pubescent. Leaves 3-4^ in., dart-brown when dry, nerves strong 

 leneath ; petiole very short. Male fl. in effuse cymes, about J in. diam. SepaU con- 

 nate into a turbinate tube, obtuse, hoary, unequal. Petals little longer than the sepals, 

 broad, split to below'the middle. Stamens equalling the petals. Dish-scales quadrate, 

 crenate. Sudimentary-ovary minute, woolly. Female fl. twice as large as the male. 

 Calyx the same. JPetals twice as long as the sepals, narrow. Stamens with long fila- 

 ments and no pollen. Ovg/ry globose, clothed with straight white hairs ; style long and 

 slender, 3-fid at the apex. Fruit wanting. 



4. C. deflexifolia, Turcz. in BuU. Mosc. 1863, pt. i. 611, var. tomen- 

 tosa; branches terete smooth young fulvous-tomentose, leaves petioled 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong acute coriaceous shining above tomentose beneath, 

 nerves strong minutely pubescent above, cymes peduncled spreading many- 

 flowered hoary. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



Apparently a climber ; branches black, the ultimate clothed with fulvous pubescence. 

 Leaves 4-6 by 2^-3^ in., much broader than in any of the preceding species, very 

 shortly acuminate or very acute, coriaceous and hard, dark-brown when dry ; petiole 

 stout. Cymes many, much branched, effuse, 2 in. diam. Male fl. ^ in. diam. Calyx 

 divided nearly to the base ; segments unequal, obtuse. Petals rather longer than the 

 sepals. Female fl., calyx as in the males. Petals half as long again as the sepals. 

 Stamens long ; anthers empty. Ovary clothed with matted wool ; style very slender, 

 3-fid at the tip. Fruit unripe, hoary with fulvous tomeutum. — I unite this with the 

 Javanese C. deflexifolia with some doubts, the leaves being so much more tomentose 

 beneath. 



Vae. ? sordida ; leaves 3-4 by 1^-2 in., minutely pilose or pubescent and purplish- 

 brown beneath. Sincapore, WaUich (Cat. n. 9016), Maingay. — The specimens are 

 flowerless ; Wallich's has unripe fruit quite like that of var. tomentosa. 



5. C. Griffithll, lEook. f. ; branchlets clothed with long spreading 

 strigose hairs, leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate cordate at the 

 very base, hairy beneath, cymes short few-flowered, fruit oblong densely 

 clothed with fulvous rigid hairs. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



A very distinct species from' any of the above. Sranchlets slender, clothed more or 

 less laxly with hairs, xS-i ^^- ^"^'S- Leaves subsessile, 4-7 by 2-3 in., glabrous above, 

 beneath more or less clothed with long hairs, that are sometimes confined to the nerves, 

 at others scattered over the surface. Flowers, female only seen, larger than its con- 

 geners, J in. diam., in small few-flowered cymes. Calyx divided nearly to the base, 

 densely tomentose. Petals not exceeding the sepals, pubescent. Stamens equalling 

 the petals. Ovary densely clothed with rigid fulvous bristles ; style very slender, 3-fid 

 at the tip. Fruit 1 J in. long, 2-celled. — Griffith describes this as a shrub with the 

 flowers whitish, capitate, and hidden under the leaves, and with l-ovuled ovarian 

 cell I find however 2 ovules, as in the other species. Maingay bad given this, or a 



