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20 : filaments equal, not compressed i anthers innate. Pistil as long as 
the stamens ; gynophore shorter than the glabrous, 2-celled, ovoid ovary. 
Stigmtu 3, globular, minute. Fruit unknown. Hook fiL Fl. Br. Ind, i. 
409. 
Perak, King's Collector, No. 1611. Distrib. Burrnah. 
2. R. Scoetechtnii, King, n. sp. Scandent, glabrous excopt the 
minutely pubescent inflorescence and sepals. Leaves membranous, ellip- 
tic or obovato-elliptic, shortly and abruptly acuminate, narrowed to tho 
base ; upper surface shining ; tho lower pale, the midrib and 6 pairs of 
arching main nerves prominent : length of blade 5*5 to 6'5 in., breadth 
3 in. ; petiole 1*25 in., thickened in the upper half and bent in the middle. 
Flowers in terminal or axillary panicles or racemes, shortly pedicellate, 
*25 in. in diam. Sepals 0, slightly imbricate in bud, united at their bases, 
linear-oblong, sub-acute, minutely tomentose on both surfaces, reflexed. 
Stamens 30 ; tho filaments unequal, slender, compressed, united by their 
bases ; anthers innate. Pistil as long as the stamens, tho gynophoro 
shorter than the ovary, puberulous. Ovary glabrous. Style twice as 
long as the ovaiy, cyiindric ; stigmas 3, sessile, ovate, small. Pipe fruit 
ovoid, smooth, yellow, 1*5 in, long and 1 in. in diam. ; endocarp mem- 
branous. 
Perak ; Scortechini, King's Collector, Nos, 8464 and 4225 : in open 
rocky places from 500 to 1200 feet. 
In his field noto on No. 8464, tho collector describes this as "a 
Bplendid creeper 80 to 100 feet long in that on No. 4225, he says, "a 
tree 40 to 50 feet high," Fr. Scortochini's specimens have no notes. 
From the flexuoae appearance of the dried twigs, I believe this is a 
creeper, and not a tree. This and the last belong to the section of. 
Poydsia characterised by having an undivided style, for which Sir J, D. 
Hooker, (F. B. I. i. 409), proposes the sectional name of Alytostylis, but 
with an expression of doubt as to whether it should not be separated 
of? as a genus. To this group belongs also the Philippine specios 
R. Jloribunda, Planch. An undescribed species from Barmah in tho 
Calcutta Herbarium (Gallatly No. 499) also falls into this section. 
5. CRAT.UVA, Linn. 
Trees. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers largo, yellow or purplish, poly- 
gamous. Sepals 4, cohering below with the convex lobed disk. Petals 
4, long-clawed, open in bud. Stamens indefinite, adnate to tho base of 
the gynophore. Ovary on a slender stalk, 1-colled ; stigma sessile i 
depressed ; ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas. Berry fleshy. Seeds 
imbedded in pulp. — Distrib. Species about 0, tropical and cosmopolitan, 
1. C. mackocarpa, Kurz in Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 195, 1. 148, figs. 8 to 
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