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minutely pubernlous especially towards the edges ; the outer row ovate- 
orbicular, sub-acute, 35 in. long ; the inner row smaller, thicker, blunter 
and more imbricate than the outer. Stametis numerous ; the connective 
with a rather thick truncate, 4- or 5-sided apical process concealing the 
apices of the linear dorsal anthers. Ovaries numerous, obliquely oblong, 
carved, glabrous, pubescent at the base, 1 to 2-ovuled, with a conical, 
narrow, inflexed stigma. Ripe carpeh reddish, ovoid, '4 to '6 in. long, 
glabrous, with a single ovoid or 2 plano-convex sbiuing pale brown seeds : 
stal ks about as long as the carpels, sleudor. 
Perak ; Scortechini, Wray, King's Collector. 
4. Ctathostemma Hookeri, King n. sp. A climber 40 to 80 feet 
long j all parts, except the inflorescence, quite glabrous. Leaves mem- 
branous, broadly oblanceolate to oblong or ovate-elliptic, acute or very 
shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cuneate ; both 
surfaces shining, glabrous, minutely reticulate ; main nerves 9 or JO 
pairs, spreading or ascending, curving, inter-arching within the edge ; 
length 5'5 to 7 in., breadth 2 25 to 2*75 in., petiole *3 in. Flowers '25 
in. in diam., sub-globose, in extra-axillary or leaf-opposed fascicleH or 
cymes of 2 or 3 ; pedicels slender, puberulous, "3 to *4 in long with 1 or 2 
bracteoles. Sepals spreading, broadly and obliquely ovate, sub-acute, 
slightly thickened at the base, *1 in. long. Petals concave ; the outer 
row slightly longer than the sepals but narrowor, obovate, contracted 
into a pseudo-claw at the base, sparsely pulie.nilr.ua nuishU- ; the inner 
row narrower, thicker, and more concave, oblique, Stamens numerous, 
short, with a thick incurved apical process from the connective ; anther 
cells dorsal. Ovaries numerous, oblong, thickened upwards, puberulous ; 
the stigma large, sub-quadrate, slightly 2-lobed, Ripe c-arpels numer- 
ous, oblong to ovoid, blunt at each end, glabrescent, 75 to 1*75 in. long 
and 6 to '9 in. in diam.; stalk 1*5 to 2 in. stout. Seeds 6 in a single 
row, compressed, oblong, palo brown, shining. Uvaria parvijlora, Hook, 
fit. and Thorns. PI. Ind. 103; Fl. Br. Ind I, 51. 
Penangj Phillips, Curtis. Perak; Scortechini, Wray, King's Col- 
lector. 
For upwards of seventy years this plant had been known only by 
Phillips* scanty specimens from Penang. In 1887 Mr. Curtis sent 
flowering specimens of it, together with a single ripe carpel from the 
same island ; while copious flowering and fruiting specimens were, about 
the same time, received from Perak. In all its parts the plant is essen- 
tially a Cyathostemma. 
5. Cyathostemma acuminatum, n. sp. King. A climber; brauches 
pale brownish, the youngest slender, dark-coloured, rafous-puberuloua. 
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