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Stamens 3 in a short column, Anthers deflexed. Female 

 flowers solitary in a terminal axil, larger than the males. 

 Sepals longer, oblong truncate, pubescent. Styles short, 

 bifid recurved on the slightly flattened top of the ovary. 

 Fruit small, \ inch through, when dry globose whitish, 

 thin walled, styles in a circle on a flattened disc at the 

 top of the ovary. 



Kedah Alor Sta (15187). 



Sauropus albicans, Bl. This plant the well known Chekop 

 manis of the Malays cultivated as a vegetable, is not 

 wild in the peninsula. I add some notes of it to supple- 

 ment the account in the Flora of British India. The 

 young leaves dark, dull green, are often splashed with 

 grey. The male flowers are described as "disciform, 6 

 lobed, lobes broad." The perianth is disc shaped with six 

 short angles, and in the centre round the column of 

 stamens are six short free points of a darker red usually 

 than the rest. It appears to me that the perianth lobes 

 are reflected on themselves, and their upper and lower 

 surfaces respectively connate, only the tips in the centre 

 of the disc being free. I can see nothing that can be des- 

 cribed as broad lobes. The flower is at first green be- 

 coming more and more spotted with pink till it is quite 

 dark-pink by the time the stamens have shed their pollen. 

 The female flower is cup shaped and purple. The fruit 

 is either white or rose-pink, and the false aril white and 

 slightly sweet. 



Aporosa Praineana, King. Lankawi, Gunong Raya (Aniff). 



Distrib. Malay peninsula. 

 A. microcalyx, Hassk, Kedah, Alor Sta, Perlis, Kanga. 



A large leaved form. 



Distrib. Malay peninsula, Archipelago, and China. 



A. Maingayi, Hook. fil. var? Tongka, Gunong Toxai (Curtis, 

 2919). 



Jour. Straits Branch 



