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lengthening to .5 in.. .05 in. thick. Pedicels very short. 

 Calyx lobes oblong, ovate, blunt. Corolla base of tube sub- 

 globose abruptly narrowed into a cylindric tube above. .1 in. 

 long, lobes short, acute fleshy, with a deflexed tuft of hairs 

 between each at its base. Coronal scales, claw linear, limb 

 broad hastate round at the top. Stamen column thick, short. 

 appendages blunt, rather thick. Pollinia oblong with short 

 caudicles and a linear oblong carrier rather large. 



Peeak; Grunong Kerbau at 4,200 ft. (Robinson). 



I do not know any Dischidia as woody a shrub as this. 

 the stem being quite stout with grey bark, the branchlets light 

 green and herbaceous. The very thick racemes are quite sessile 

 and fioriferons from the base, the flowers falling ofT as the 

 raceme grows. 



Dischidia rosea, Kid]. Journ. Roy. As. Str. Br. p. 31. 



1 find Sehleehter lias used this name for a Philippine plant 

 a few years earlier. J therefore substitute the name rhodantfia 

 for rosea. 



Dischidia astephana, King and Gamble. This plant is des- 

 cribed as having white flowers, mainly on the strength of this 

 apparently. Sehleehter described his ConchopUyllum angu- 

 latum as a distinct plant with red flowers. As a matter of 

 fact the flowers are sealing-wax red entirely, except the spaces 

 between the prominent ridges which are blue hlack. 



Dischidia nummularia, Br. Prodr. Fl. Xov. Hall, i 0. 461. On 

 examining the type of this plant and the excellent original 

 drawing of J. Miller in the British Museum Herbarium it is 

 difficult to imagine how this plant could have been confused 

 with the common Malayan plant so identified by most botanists 

 to the present day. The true plant has ovate flat leaves some- 

 what like those of albida of Griffith, considerably larger umbels 

 of white flowers tipped with yellowish apparently (certainly 

 not scarlet as given by King and Gamble). It is confined as 

 far as I know to North Australia. The leaves of the Malayan 

 Peninsula plant are about a quarter of the size, elliptic to 

 ovate in outline, very fleshy nearly as thick as they are wide- 

 glaucous and mealv, usually yellow. The flowers are white, 

 fewer and small than in nummularia. The plant seems to he 

 quite identical witli T). Gaydicliaudii . Decne, and occurs 

 through the Malav Islands to Amboyna, and all through the 

 Malay Peninsula to Tenasserim. 



LOGANIACEAE, 



Fagraea (Cyrtophyllum) caudata, n. sp. 



A tree thirty feet tall, branches slender. Leaves coria- 

 ceous lanceolate caudate, base narrowed to the petiole and de- 



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