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aud hairy : the inner 6 to 8 much larger ; all imbi'icate, glabrous. Petals 

 4 to (5, smaller than the inner sepals, oblong, incurved at the apex, rather 

 fleshy. Stamens 6 to 10, free, in two series ; filaments compressed, thicken- 

 ed upwards : anthers ovnte, 2-celled. Female foiver (fide Miers) Sepals 

 8, oblong, all imbricate. Petals 5 or 6, oblong, concave. Staminodes 6, 

 clavate. Ovaries 6, rarely 3. Style very short. Drupes 2-3, trans- 

 versely ovate, fleshy ; endocarp bony, sub-globose, slightly compressed, 

 with radiating grooves, and with a single lunate cell : embryo terete, 

 slender ; radicle as long as the cotyledons. 



1. H. TRIFLOKA, Miers Contrib. iii, 102. Branches striate, the 

 youngest pubescent. Leaves small, sub-coriaceous, shining, glabrous, ob- 

 long-lanceolate, tapering gradually to the rather blunt minutely mu- 

 oronate apex ; the base rounded, 3-nerved ; reticulations fine, but rather 

 obscure, as are the nerves ; length of blade 1"5 to 3'5 in., breadth '6 to 

 1-25 in., petiole '3 to -5 in. Cymes about 3-flowei'ed, little longer thantbe 

 petioles, usually solitary, axillary and supra-axillary, the female shorter. 



Malacca ; Griflith, Maingay (Kew Distrib., 123) : Perak; Scortecbini, 

 King's Collector. Distrib. Sumatra. 



The Perak specimens agree with the types of Miquel's Limacia m'- 

 crophylla from Sumatra in Herb. Calcutta ; and they do not agree in 

 externals with the Indian L. cuspidata. Ripe fruit of tbis is unknown. 

 But the flowers are so diiJerent from those of Limacia that I think it 

 ought not to be included in that genus, and I further venture to think 

 that Miers's genus Hypserpa has a sufficiently sure basis on the struc- 

 ture of the flowers alone. 



10. COCCDLUS, DO. 



Climbing or sannentose sbrubs, rarely suberect. Petiole not dilated 

 at the base. Flowers in panicles. Sepals 6, 2-seriate, outer smaller. 

 Petals 6, smaller, usually auricled. Male Jlmver .- stamens embraced by the 

 petals; anthers sub-globose, cells bursting transversely. Female flower : 

 staminodes 6 or 0. Ovaries 3 to 6 : styles usually cylindric. Drupes 

 laterally compressed ; endocarp horse-sboe-shaped, dorsally keeled and 

 tubercled, sides excavate. Seed curved, albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 annular ; cotyledons linear, flat, appressed. — Distrib. All warm climates. 



1. C. Kdnstleei, King, n. sp. Glabrous ; the branches striate, pale. 

 Leaves membranous, with long petioles, peltate, rotund, acute ; nerves 9, 

 radiating from the petiolar insertion, thin but prominent on the pale 

 under surface ; length of blade 3'25 to 4 in., breadth about "25 in. or less ; 

 petiole slender, terete, about 3 in. long. Panicles in fascicles of 2 to 4 

 from flat warty tubercles on the stem, narrow, the lateral branches only 

 about "5 in. long, few-flowered. Sepals imbricate, glabrous. Petah Q, 



