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the reticulations distinct ; length 5*5 to 7*5 in., breadth 1*75 to 2'25 in. ■ 
petiole under *5 in., slender. Flowers unknown. Fruit cylindric, taper- 
ing to each end, the apes shortly beaked ; when ripe orange-coloured, 
3 in, long-, and 1*5 in. in diam. j gynophore nearly "75 in., pedicel l'25in,, 
blender. Seeds ovoid, smooth, *4 in. long. 
Ulu Buboug, Perak. King's Collector, Nob. 10027 and 10795. 
A creeper, 20 to 30 feet long ■ allied to 0. Finlaysoniana, Wall, by 
its curious cucumber-like fruit, but with different leaves, i'iowers 
have not as yet boeu collected. 
8. Capparis Kuxstleri, King, n. sp. Scandent, the branches glab- 
rescent : thorns stipular, in pairs, hardly *1 in long. Leaves membranous, 
oblong- lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, the base narrowed, both surfaces 
glabrous, midrib and 7 pairs of sub-horizontal curving nerves prominent 
below ; length of blade 4*5 to 5"5 in., breadth 1*5 to 2*25 in., petiole *5 in. 
Fruit axillary, solitary, globose, 1*5 to 2 in. in diam., deep yellow ; gyno- 
phore about 2 in. long, stout ; pedicel rather shorter. 
Guuong I3ubu, in Perak, at an elevation of 800 feet, King's Collec- 
tor, No. 8337. 
A creeper, 40 to 60 feet long. Only fruiting specimens havo been 
collected. 
4. Roy d si a, Roxb. 
Large unarmed woody climbers, branches spotted white. Leaves 
pimple. Flowers yellow, racemedor panicled. Calyx 6-partite, segments 
2-seriate, tips a little imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens indefinite, inserted 
above the base of the short cylindric gynophore. Ovary ovoid, 3-celled 
from the prolongation of the placentas ; styles 3, subulate, or single and 
undivided ; stigmas small, terminal; ovules many, 2-seriate in the angles 
of the cells. Fruit fleshy, with a woody 3-valvod, 1-celled, endocarp, 
1-seeded. Seed erect, cotyledons fleshy, unequal, longtitudinally folded, 
the larger embracing the smaller. — Distrib. Species 3, tropical Asiatic. 
1. R. parvifloba, Griff. Notul. iv. 578 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 607, f. 1, 
A semi-scandent shrub, 4 to 8 feet high, glabrous, oxcept the puberulous 
inflorescence and tomentose sepals. Leaves membranous, oblanceolate 
to obovate-elliptic, or sub-rotund, with an abrupt short blunt acumen ; 
both surfaces shining, the midrib bold ; primary nerves 5 or 0 pairs, 
prominent on the under surface, as are the intermediate nerves and 
reticulations ; length 3'5 to 4 iu., breadth 1*5 to 2*25 in. ; petiole 
*5 to 6 in., slightly thickened in the upper half. Flowers iu long naked 
racemes arranged in a terminal leafless panicle much longer than tho 
leaves, shortly pedicellate, "2 in. in diam. Sepals 6, valvate, linoar- 
oblong, sub-acute, densely tomoutoso on both surfaces, relluxed. Stamens 
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