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Leaves elliptic to oblong, obtuse or shortly 
and bluutly mucronate, coriaceous ... 5. A. crassifoluis. 
Leaves oblong, acuminate, coriaceous ... 6. A. oblongus. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate. 
Leaves shortly caudate-acuminate, 
flower nearly 2 in. long ... 7. A. Lowianus. 
Leaves shortly acuminate ; flower 1"5 
to 1"75 in. long ; ripe carpels nar- 
rowly elliptic, tapering to both ends, 
glabrous ... ... ... 8. A. ox y carpus. 
Limb of petals liuear, sub-triquetrous, cylindric, or 
sub-clavate. 
Petals thickly coriaceous, linear, blunt, ad- 
pressed-pubescent ,,. ... 9. A, speciosus. 
Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, (glabrous ?) 10. A. Maingayi. 
Petals fleshy, the outer 3 flattened j the 
inner 3 obtusely triquetrous ... 11. A. gracilis. 
Petals fleshy, the limb cylindric to clavate 12. A snaveolens. 
Imperfectly known species ... ... 13. A. costatus. 
* * * ... ... 14. A. Wrayi. 
1. Artabotrys grandifolics, n. sp. King. A powerful creeper 60 
to 80 feet long ; young branches stout, pale, striate, glabrous. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, large, minutely pellucid-punctate, pale yellowish-green 
when dry, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-obovate ; the apex broad, obtuse or 
abruptly sub-acute ; the base cuueate* both surfaces glabrous, distinctly 
reticulate, the upper shining, the lower duller : main nerves 10 to 12 
pairs, oblique, inter-arching boldly '25 in. from the edge ; length of 
blade 8 to 14 in., breadth 3 to 5 in. : petiole '4 in., stout. Petals very 
fleshy, denRoly and minutely tomentose, unequal ; the outer 3 broadly 
elliptic, snb-acnte or blunt, slightly concave, "75 in, long and "4 in. broad : 
inner 3 obovoid, spreading but with incurved apices, slightly shorter 
than the outer. Peduncles (in fruit) nearly 3 in. long, stout : torus 
hemispheric, 1 in. indiam. Ripe carpels numerous, glabrous, lenticollate, 
elliptic-obovoid, the apex mammillate, narrowed at the base into a short 
stout pseudo-stalk nearly '5 in. long ; length of ripe carpel about 1*5 in., 
diara. I in.: pericarp hard, about *1 iu. thick. Seed solitary, narrowly 
ellipsoid, blunt, 1*1 in. long, and '6 in. in. diam. ; the testa pale, rugulose. 
A. macrophyllus, King MSS. (not of Hook. fil). 
Perak ; at Goping, elevation 50O to 800 feet, King's Collector, No. 
4477 ; Scortechini No. 1068. 
Some specimens of this were unfortunately distributed from tho 
Calcutta Herbarium under the MSS. name of A. macrophyllus, — a name 
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