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The flowers are usually produced before the leaves, 

 Keith gives the height of the tree 45 feet. It is often 

 shorter. The flowers are produced from the axil just 

 below the buds. 



Wallich's species appears to be based on leaves 

 obtained by him at Penang and Malacca. However it 

 does not appear he ever visited Malacca. The plant does 

 not seem to have been met with again. The specimen 

 and consequently the description is very poor, but as far 

 as it goes it seems to fit this fine plant. 

 D. aurea&m. Setul, on heaths; Puket (Curtis). 



Distrib. India, Himalayas to Pegu, Andamans, Java 

 and Borneo, apparently absent from the Malay Peninsula 

 though King gives it as "Throughout the Indo-Malaya 

 region. 



Acrotrema costatum, Jack. Kedah: Bukit Pinang, Alor Sta. 



Lankawi, Gunong Eaya (Curtis); Burau Bay at the 

 seven wells (Ridley). 



Distrib. Whole Peninsula from Moulmein South to 

 Johor. 



Delima sarmentosa, It. Bangtaphan Beach (Keith); Lankawi 

 sea shore of Burau Bay (Ridley). 

 Distrib. Assam to Johor. 

 Tetracera fragrans , n. sp. 



A low sarmentose shrub. Leaves coriaceous shining 

 above,;scabrid beneath elliptic, narrowed at the base or 

 oblanceolate, tip rounded, margins at the tip sinuate or 

 obscurely dentate 3 to 6 inches long, 2 to 2f inch wide, 

 nerves 9 to 11 pairs, petiole i inch long. Panicle lax 6 

 to 10 inches, branches four inches long, rachis and 

 pedicels covered thinly with white appressed hairs. Bracts 

 linear acute. Flowers half an inch across fragrant. Sepals 

 ovate rounded glabrous except the ciliate margin. Petals 

 thin oblong white glabrous about as long as the sepals. 

 Stamens nearly as long. Pistils 2 glabrous subcylindric. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



