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almost succulent ; placentas much intruded ; style linear, with 2 round 
stigmatic lobes. Capsule broad-ellipsoid, crustaceous, almost succulent 
(dehiscence not clear) ; style persistent; seeds 300 y in diam., ovoid, 
somewhat angular, brown. 
Perak, Waterloo : Robertson 9088. Selangor : Sua Batu, Ridley ; 
Gua Batu, Ridley 8218. Kedah : Langkaui, Curtis 2516. 
Thia species, the only one in the sub-genus, differs in the asstivation of the corolla, 
the number of the stamens, the anthers all equal, the persistent style, from the 
characters assigned to Ganscora. 
4. Crawfurdia, Wall. 
Glabrous twiners. Leaves opposite, petioled, 3-nerved. Flowers 
showy, axillary. Calyx tubular ; teeth 5 (or 4), long, often very long. 
Corolla long, tubular-funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, short. Stamens 5 on 
the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong. Ovary stalked, 1-celled, placentas 
parietal ; style linear, stigmas 2, short-oblong. Fruit globose or ellip- 
soid, berried or capsular ; seeds many, 2- (or imperfectly 3-) angled. — 
Distrib. Species 10-12, extending from India to Manchuria. 
1. Crawfurdia Blumii, G. Don Syst. IV. 200. Stem often 3 to 
4 feet long. Leaves (blade) 1-5 by -75 in., ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire ; 
base rounded or narrowed ; petiole '35 in. Flowers axillary, solitary, 
sub-sessile, or the pedicel '25 to 1-5 in. long. Calyx narrow, angular ; 
tube -2 in. long, teeth -25 in. long, linear. Corolla P25 to P5 in. long, 
light purple. Fruit '6 in. long, ellipsoid, purple, succulent. Seeds 
imperfectly 3-angular, angles (or 2 of them) often narrowly winged. 
Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. v. II. 561 ( Blumei ). C. trinervis, Ilassk. Cat. Hort. 
Bogor. 128, in Tidjsch. Nat. Gesch. X. 126. Tripterospermum trinerve, 
Blume Bijd. 849 ; Griseb. in DC. Prod. IX. p. 121. [ Cf . C. B. Clarke 
in FI. Br. Ind. IX. p. 107, sub Craivfurdid affini, Wallich.] 
Pahang, 7,000 feet alt. : Wray 1570. — Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 
5. Villahsia, Vent. 
Floating, glabrous herbs. Leaves long -petioled, ovate, entire or 
sinuate. Peduncles solitary, 1- (or many-) flowered. Calyx deeply 
5-lobed. Corolla broadly campanulate ; tube short, lobes sub-rotate. 
Stamens 5 ; filaments filiform, on the corolla-tube ; anthers sagittate. 
Ovary 1-celled ; style short ; stigma of 2 small lobes ; placentas parietal. 
Capsule globose, 1-celled, 4-valved at the apex ; seeds several (or 
numerous). — Distrib. Species 12, in Africa or in Australia, except the 
following Malay species. 
1. Villarsia aurantiaca, Bidley MS. A small herb ; stems 2 in. 
