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specimens being linear-lanceolate. The Penang specimens are, on the 
other hand, as figured by Professor Oliver, oval-oblong. 
2. B. uncinata, Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 377. A woody 
climber : young branches at first scurfy and hispid, but very soon gla- 
brous. Leaves sub-coriaceous, elliptic-oblong; gradually tapering in the 
upper third to the acuminate apex, entire, the base slightly cuneate, 
3-nerved ; both surfaces glabrous and shining, nerves 9 or 10 pairs, 
spreading, thin but prominent beneath : length 9 to 11 in., breadth 3 
in., petiole nearly 3 in., thickened at the apex, glabrous. Sepals lan- 
ceolate, spreading, hispid. Fruiting peduncles (fide Masters) “ half the 
length of the leaves. Capsule depressed-spheroidal, the size of a hazel- 
nut, covered with hooked gland-tipped barbed hispid spines, 3-celled.” 
Malacca, Maingay, No. 242 (Kew Distrib.). 
I have seen only Maingay’s Malacca specimens. 
3. B. Maingayi, Mast. in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 377. A woody 
climber: young branches glabrous. Leaves sub-coi'iaceous, elliptic to 
elliptic-oblong, shortly bluntly and rather abruptly acuminate, entire ; 
the base rounded with 3 bold and 2 minute nerves : both surfaces quite 
glabrous ; lateral nerves about 2 or 3 pairs, prominent beneath as are 
the reticulations ; length 7 or 8 in., breadth 3 to 3'5 in. ; petioles 12 in., 
thickened towards the apex, glabrous. Umbels in axillary fascicles of 
6 or 8, their peduncles about 1 in. long, slender, glabrescent; pedicels 
'25 in. Sepals '25 in. long, ovate-lanceolate. “ Petals shorter than the 
sepals, with a long linear appendage. Staminodes erect, oblong, obtuse, 
bifid. Style as long as the ovary. Fruiting peduncle as long as the 
petiole. Capsule globose, 1'25 in. in diam., obscurely 5-lobed, studded 
with short subulate prickles.” 
Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay. 
Of this species I have seen no good specimens in flower or fruit, 
and the above account of these parts is taken from Masters’ descrip- 
tion. 
4. B. elliptica, Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Tnd. i. 377. A woody 
climber ; young branches minutely rusty-tomentose. Leaves broadly 
elliptic, abruptly and shortly acuminate, entire ; the base 5-nerved, 
rounded or minutely cordate ; upper surface minutely scabrid-hispid, 
the midrib and nerves hispid-tomoutose ; lower minutely pubescent 
on the veins, the midrib and longer nerves tomentose : lateral nerves 
3 pairs, oblique, curving, prominent beneath as are the secondary nerves 
and reticulations: length 5'5 to 7'7 in., breadth 3'5 to 4'75 in., petiole 
