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with one ovule in each of the two cells ; fruits 1 or 2 in 

 each flower, fusiform, narrowed at both ends, apex 

 acuminate; reaching T^/^ cM. in length and 1.2 cM. across 

 the middle; pericarp leathery, deep purple; seed solitary, 

 elongate. 



Distribution: Borneo (also P. Penang?). 



We did not see any specimen of the genus, but from the 

 description its seems not to bold, to suppose that it might be 

 very closely allied to Faradaya. But it seems distinguished by 

 its fusiform (and large) fruits. 



1. H. Lobbii Ridley in Journ. As. Soc. Straits. 50, 125, 

 (1908). — Clerodendron Lobbii (not Lobbiana. as 

 Ridley thinks) Clarke in HooA:. f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 590, 

 (1885); King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 

 ' 4, 841. — A tall, slender, woody climber; branchlets minu- 

 tely pubescent; leaves elliptic-ovate, shining and glabrous 

 above, minutely pubescent beneath; base rounded, apex 

 obtuse; margins entire; 5—772 cM. long. 4—6 cM. broad; 

 petioles 0.6—2.5 cM. long; the upper leaves of the branch- 

 lets reddened; cymes minutely grey-pubescent, 12-flowered 

 (Clarke), axillary, long peduncled, numerous; bracts 0.3 cM. 

 long, linear; peduncles 7Vs — 10 cM. long; pedicels 0.6— 

 1.2 cM.; calyx campanulate, deeply 2-lobed, obovate, 

 minutely grey-pubescent, with scattered round glands, 1.2 

 cM. long, yellowy-green; lobes 0.6 cM. long, ovate-deltoid, 

 valvate in bud; coroZ/a-tube slender, reaching almost 2V2 

 cM., whitish, glabrate; lobes 4, 3 obovate, 1.2 c}A. long 

 and 1 cM. broad, and 1 linear-oblong; all lobes orange- 

 coloured; stamens 4, filiform, 5 cM. exserted, crimson; 

 pollen orange-coloured; style filiform, as long as the sta- 

 mens, stigmata very small, lanceolate, green; ovary 4-lobed, 

 " lobes rounded, elevated; fruits 1 or 2, elongate, fusiform, 

 deep purple, reaching 7^/^ cM. in length and 1.2 cM. 

 across the middle. 



Distribution : Borneo (Sarawak nr. Kuching) (also Penang ?)_. 



