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scattered stotit bristles ; lower surface coarsely etrigose on the nerves, 
otherwise glahrons, the reticulations fine ; length 10 to 16 in., hreadtli 
3 to 6 in., petiole 0 to 1*5 in. Peduncles much sliorter than the leaves, 
solitary or several fi'om one axil, spaiselj glandular-hairy, hearing at 
their apices a solitary, lax, involucrate, compound umbel ; itivolocreH 
oblong, obtnse, glabrous, "5 in. in length or shorter, those of the umbel- 
lulea smaller ; pedicels shorter than the calyx-tube. Flowers nearly *75 
in. long. Oalyx-ttihe rather widely cjlindric, bearing (especially towaid-s 
its base) numerous fiat, shortly stalked^ fleshy discoid glands ; the teeth 
4, short, shallow, wide, each crowned by a stalked gland. Petals longer 
than the calyx, oblong, much acuminate (forming a narrow cone in bud), 
Stameri^ 8 ; the filaments abotit one-fourth as long as the linear acu- 
minate anthers. Ovary short, broad, truncate, deeply grooved and 
almost winged \ style long, flattened, smooth. Oapsule *3 in. in diam. 
Perak; Scortechini 1872. King's Colhdor 7233. 
At once rocogniaahl© by the cutioualj glaiiduJnr calyi, 
2. Phtllagathis Getffithh, King. A shrub with a very short 
stem and nBually only a single pair of nnecjtual leaves. Leaves coria- 
ceous, sub-rotund, 7-nerved, apex obtuse, the base cordate, edges quite 
entii'e; both surfaces glabrous, the lower lepidote and sligl-fcly pube- 
ruious on tlie nerves j length 5 to 8 in., breadth 3 5 to 6*5 in., petiole 
4 to 8 in. Panicle axillary, neatly as long as the leaves, bearing in 
ita upper half a few very short few- flowered branches, the whole 
lepidote especially towards the apex. Flowers corymbose, on seabc- 
rulocs pedicels, as long as tbc narrowly campanulatc glaudular-hairy 
calyx-tube : mouth of calyx truncate, slightly expanded, and minutely 
4- toothed. Petals 4, quadrate. Sta'imm much exserted : anthers not 
so long as the glabrous filamenty, narrow acnminato, much sagittate at 
the base, inappendicalate. Allojnorphia Or£ffithit\ Hook. MSS. Fl. Br. 
Ind. II, 527. Triana in Trans. Linii. Soc. XXVIII, 74, t. VI, fig. 66e; 
Cogn. in DO. Mnn. Phan. VII, 467. 
Malacca: Grij^th (K.D.) 22Gi/L Maingay (K.D.J 775; EulkU. 
PERAK ; Scortechini 170 ; Kmg's Collector tj91. Selangore ; Cnrlis 2333 ! 
Bidleij7Bl7, Penawg; SloUckza. 
I have removed this from Allomorphia to Phyllt^gathis of whioh it baa the 
flow era and hobit. 
3. Phtllj^gathis Scortechinu, King, n. sp. Stem woody below, 
shortly creeping above and subterete. Leaves on very long petioles, 
coriaceoas, reni form-rotnnd, cordate, the apex minutely apicnlate, 
stoutly 9-nerved; the tmnsverse veins hold, glabrons on the upper 
surface, glandular-puberulous on the lower ■„ length 5 to 10 in. ; breadth 
