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flowering specimens of it, together with a single ripe carpel from the 

 same island ; while copious flowering and fruiting specimens were, about 

 the same time, received from Perak. In all its parts the plant is essen- 

 tially a Cyathostemma. 



5. Cya'ihostemma acuminatum, n. sp. King. A climber; branches 

 pale brownish, the youngest slender, dark-coloured, rufous-puberulous. 

 Leaves membranous, oblanceolate-oblong, caudate-acuminate, the base 

 acute ; both surfaces glabrous shining and minutely reticulate ; the 

 midrib depressed above and puberulous, beneath prominent and minutely 

 muriculate : main nerves LO to 11 pairs, spreading, curved, sub-ascending, 

 prominent beneath, depressed above : length 8 to 9 in. ; breadth 2*2 

 to 2"5 in. ; petiole '15 in., tomentose. Cymes of hermaphrodite flowers 

 rufous-pubescent, 4 to 6 in. long ; pedicel about as long as the branches, 

 the latter with numerous distichous, oblong, nervose bracts. Flowers 4 

 to 5 in. in diam., on short pedicels. Sepals triangular, blunt, spread- 

 ing. Petals as in C. Scortechinii ; connective of stamens forming at the 

 apex a thick incurving point. (Dearies as in 0. Scortechinii but with 

 conical stigma. Cymes of female jloiuers much shorter than those of the 

 hermaphrodite, dichotomous, few-flowered, about 1"5 in. long (of which 

 the peduncle is 1 in.) ; slightly rufous-pubescent; bracts few, lanceolate. 

 Flowers about "4 in. in diam. when open, buds conical. Segals broadly 

 triangular, cordate, acute, spreading, pubescent. Petals coriaceous, 

 granular-pubescent, concave ; the outer broadly ovate- triangular, the 

 apex sub-acute, incurved in bud ; the inner row smaller, narrower, 

 erect, connivent. Stamens absent. Ovaries as in the hermaphrodite, 

 but the stig-ma larger, and not conical. 

 Upper Perak ; Wray No. 3468. 



A remarkable species of which I have seen only Wray's incomplete 

 specimens. These specimens are accompanied by some loose young- 

 carpels, ovate-globular, oblique, with persistent recurved styles, and a 

 single or at most two seeds. If these carpels really belong to the speci- 

 men, the definition of the genus will have to be modified. The structure 

 of both the hermapnrodite and pistillate flowers agrees perfectly with 

 that of the other species above described. 



4. Uvaria, Linn. 

 Scandent or sarmentose shrubs, usually stellately pubescent. Flow- 

 ers terminal or leaf-opposed, rarely axillary, cymose, fascicled or solitary, 

 yellow, purple or brown. Sepals 3, often connate below, valvate. Petals 6, 

 orbicular, oval or oblong, imbricate in 2 rows, sometimes connate at the 

 base. Stamens indefinite; top of connective ovoid-oblong, truncate or 

 subfoliaceous Torus depressed, pubescent or tomentose. Ovaries in- 



