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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



Cantharifera. Rumph, Amb, V, t. 59. 



Phyllamphora mirabilis. Lour, Fl, Cock, p. 606. 



Abundant in moist places and ravines in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bencoolen and other parts of the West coast of 

 Sumatra. 



It is a larger and stronger plant than the N, distillatoria^ 

 and has the striated margins of the urns flattened, depress- 

 ed, and more everted. 



NEPENTHES DISTILLATORIA. 



Foliis sessilibus amplexicaulibus, ascidiis infundibuliformi- 

 bus nudis, ore striato. 



At Singapore, Malacca, &c. 



Poiret seems to have fallen into an error in describing the 

 urns of this species as having smooth margins {Ency, 

 Meth. IL p, 459.), I have never met with any that were not 

 striated, though they are less remarkably so than in the 

 other species. 



Bencoolen, August , 1820. 



LVII. URTICEiE. 



FICUS OVOIDEA. (W. J.J 



Foliis cuneato-obovatis apice rotundatis, nervo medio 

 dichotomo, fructibus axillaribus solitariis pedunculatis. 



Found at Singapore and on several parts of the west 

 coast of Sumatra and its islands. 



A small tree, with smooth brownish bark. Leaves alter- 

 nate, petiolate, cuneato-obovate, rounded above, attenuated 

 to the base, very entire, very smooth, the middle nerve 

 dichotomous; from IJ to 2 inches long. Petioles nearly 

 half an inch long, round with a shght furrow above, and 



