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Stephanotis parviflora, n. sp. - 
Stems creeping and rooting at the nodes with fine 
roots, bark when dry corky rugose fawn colored with 
lines of transverse raised dots, pubescent hairy. Leaves 
in distant pairs 3 to 4 inches apart, coriaceous ovate 
acute base rounded, above glabrous or when young 
sprinkled with long hairs, beneath hairy especially on 
the midrib and nerves, nerves invisible above, beneath 
one pair ascending from the base, and two pairs above 
more widely spreading, 2 to 3 inches long 14 to 1 inch 
wide; petiole thick hairy half an inch long. Inflores- 
cence on a stout peduncle hairy and 1-3 inches long, 
raceme up to half an inch long glabrous. Bracts small 
ovate. Flower waxy white on a short stout pubescent 
pedicel. Calyx lobes pale, glabrous lanceolate shorter 
than the corolla tube. Corolla ? inch across, tube 335 
inch long dilate urceolate lobes lanceolate acute hairy 
outside and rather thickly sprinkled with stellate hairs 
within. Staminal corona from the base of the tube 
and projecting to the tube mouth. Corona of five 
processes with a short filament at the base, then oblong 
thick grooved and winged on the inner face above 
prolonged into a bifid linear process attached on the 
inner face to the style apex. Anthers with a thin oval 
rounded process shorter than the corona process. 
Pollinia decurved pyriform, in pairs on the dark brown 
pollin carrier. Style apex short conical shorter than 
the coronal processes. 
Perak. At Temengoh and at Tapah, climbing on trees. 
The distribution of the genus Stephanotis is a very 
remarkable one. Two or three species are recorded from 
Madagascar, two including the present one from the 
Malay peninsula, one from Borneo and one from Cuba, 
one from Japan and one from Hongkong. 
R. A. Soc., No. 57, I91o. 
