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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
15. Stemonurus Penangianus. Gomphandra Penangiana, Wall . ; 
— ramulis teretibus, pallide ferrugineis ; foliis oblongo-lanceo- 
latis, imo cuneatis, apice liiieari-angustatis, coriaceis, glaber- 
rimis, subtus pallidioribus margine revoluto, petiolo brevi, 
crassiusculo, profunde canaliculate ; cyma oppositifolia, sub- 
umbellatim et 2-3-4-chotome ramosa, floribus hermapbroditis, 
secundis, cum pedicellis articulatis, valde deciduis, carina 
interna petalorum in appendice longe pi’opendenti inflexa 
maxime producta, filamentis longe ciliatis, antheris polliniferis, 
ovario brevissimo, 5-gono, apice pulviniformi et umbilicato, 
stylo conico, sub-brevi, tubuloso, dentibus 5 erectis acutis 
terminate. — Penang. — [v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn. Wall. Cat. 
7204.) 
This species is very distinct on account of its singularly 
branching racemes, with long rows of secund flowers, which are 
always placed on the side of the stem opposite to the insertion 
of the petiole. The stems are quite glabrous and of a dull light 
brown colour. The leaves are about inches long, 1|-1| inch 
broad, on a petiole 3 or 4 lines in length. The primary peduncle 
is 3 to 6 lines long, branching somewhat umbellately into from 
three to six branches, which are again dichotomously, or some- 
times umbellately subdivided into lengthened curving branchlets, 
from 6 to 9 lines long, closely and pectinately beset with pedi- 
cels, from which the articulated flowers have fallen off, all being 
quite glabrous and of an ochreous colour. The calyx is small, 
cupshaped, minutely 5-toothed; the petals adhere by their mar- 
gins below in a tubular form, the summits being quite free; 
the stamens are the length of the petals, but the long ciliated 
crests are far exserted ; the filaments are thick and fleshy, having 
their margins and apiees charged with very long clavate white 
hairs ; the upper part of the inner keel interposes between the 
lower part of the two lobes of the anthers, which are oval, deeply 
separated at their base, the lobes being attached dorsally at their 
junction to the apical point of the filament ; they are pollini- 
ferous, the granules' of pollen being sharply 3-angular : the ova- 
rium is distinctly ovuligerous. 
16. Stemonurus longifolius. Olax longifolia. Wall. ; — ramuhs 
teretibus, gracilibus, glabris, ochraceis ; foliis valde lanceolatis, 
utrinque acutis, apice lineari-angustatis, glaberrimis, flavo- 
virentibus, subtus pallidioribus, petiolo gracili ; panicula pau- 
ciflora, glaberrima, petiolo vix longiori, floribus glabris, petalis 
4, staminibus 4, filamentis crassis, dilatatis, longe ciliolatis, an- 
theris efiFoetis, ovario sterili, 4-sulcato, stylo conico tubuloso 
4-5-dentato coronato. — Sylhet. — [v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn. 
Wall. Cat. 6782 A. et B.) 
