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abruptly rounded at base, 5 to 5'5 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad, much 
less pilose, main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs ; seeds 1 to 2, testa crustaceous. 
Penang: Curtis 2787. Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 998. Johore: 
at Gunong Palai, 1,400 feet, G. King. 
3. Jasminum Maingayi, Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 594 (1882). 
A climbing shrub ; branchlets light brown, terete, internodes somewhat 
elongate, innovations and inflorescence tawny-pubescent. Leaves char- 
taeeous ; ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate and often mucronate at 
apex, rounded or attenuate or cuneate at base ; glabrous on both 
surfaces ; margins recurved ; 3 to 6 in. long, 2 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib 
stout ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, arching upwards to join in a looped 
intramarginal nerve about - 2 in. from the margin ; secondary nerves 
few ; reticulations distant, obscure ; all nerves strongly impressed above 
and raised beneath ; petiole -5 to -7 in. long, articulate in the middle, 
twisted, the bases of each pair connected by a raised nodal line. 
Flowers in terminal or axillary, paniculate, tawny-pubescent, trichoto- 
mous cymes, 1-5 to 2 in. long, sessile or peduncled ; bracts oblong or 
spathulate, leafy ; bracteoles linear, about -25 in. long or less ; pedicels 
blueish, -15 in. long; flowers white, sometimes slightly tinged with 
pink. Calyx-tube campanulate, -07 to -1 in. long ; teeth 6, linear- 
subulate, - 325 in. long. Corolla-tube slender, -5 to - 7 in. long, glabrous ; 
lobes 8 to 10, spreading, rotate, oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, -4 in. 
long, with prominent nerves. Stamens included in the corolla- tube ; 
filaments slender, appressed to the tube ; anthers oblong, mucronate, 
■15 in. long, connective broad. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous ; style 
slender, -4 to -5 in. long ; stigma clavate. Fruit of one carpel, oblong, 
•5 in. long, '3 in. broad, exocarp thin shining, endocarp fibrous. Seeds 
2, testa thin. Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 7823. 
Penang : Maingay (K.D.) 1000 ; Curtis 643. Pekak : Scortechini 
139, 304 ; Curtis 2032 ; King’s Collector 2761, 2762, 3975.— Distrib. 
Borneo ( Haviland & Hose 911). 
Vab. kedahensis, King & Gamble. Branchlets and inflorescence 
thickly rusty-pubescent. Leaves more ovate, rounded at base, nerves 
fewer, rarely 3 to 4 pairs, the two lower pairs very strong. Drupe 
nearly globose. 
Kedah : Ridley 5535. 
A well-marked variety which may prove, when better known, to be a species. 
4. Jasminum Wrayi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender climbing 
shrub; branchlets pale brown, slender, terete. Leaves membranous; 
oblong or obovate-oblong, acuminate at apex, attenuate or rounded, 
sometimes slightly auricled at base ; glabrous on both surfaces except 
