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connate that they very readily separate with but little 

 force used, and in one flower I found them quite free. 

 In fruit they seem to be more firmly attached. The 

 corolla in this plant is very much reduced, and the limb 

 really almost rudimentary, suggesting that its usually 

 submerged life has caused the limb so conspicuous in the 

 Limnophilas to be useless and reduced to a rudiment 

 still retaining however traces of the violet coloiing 

 (especially conspicuous in the budj so characteristic 

 of the Limnophilas. The little plant forms bright 

 green masses in shallow water, and when submerged 

 is usually very short little over an inch tall ; here owing 

 to the drying up of the water edge it is quite free of 

 the water it becomes taller and is three or four inches 

 tall. 



BlGNONIACB.E. 



Tecoma Curtisii, n. sp. 



A slender climber with wiry stems, internodes 8 

 inches long. Leaves opposite 4 inches, petiole 1 inch, 

 leaflets 5 lanceolate acuminate base rounded entire 

 glabrous light green shining 1^ inch long by f inch 

 wide, petiolule ^ inch long. Cymes axillary and ter- 

 minal on short peduncles. Flowers numerous crowded 

 pedicels ^ inch long. Bracts shorter linear subulate. 

 Calyx cupular ^ inch long greenish purple with 5 short 

 subulate processes. Corolla 2 inches long, base cylin- 

 dric enlarging funnel-shaped upwards to the mouth, one 

 inch across ; lobes subequal oblong rounded, base of 

 tube and interior yellow, outside pinkish yellow lobes 

 pinkish white. Stamens 4 included, tinthers white bases 

 divergent, apex terminated by a violet subulate process. 

 Style longer. Stigma lanceolate flat white. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Penang : Batu Feringhi (Curtis) ; 



This has long been cultivated in the Botanic Gardens 

 at Singapore, but it has never set fruit and I have never 



/ Jour. Straits Branch 



