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nerves 10 pairs petiole Vi-Vz inch long. Peduncle 3 inches long, hairy, 
terminal. Inflorescence of three or more branches bearing tacemose 
cvmes of very numerous flowers, the whole being 6 or more inches long 
and often 6 inches across, rachis. pedicels, bracts and calyx dense y 
hairy Bracts ovate acute one-eighth of an inch long, alyx tubulai with 
- acute points, a quarter of an inch long, Corolla tube one inch long 
hairy, cylindric base narrow for % inch, then dilated abruptly, hairy 
within, limb of five spathulate lobes hairy at the base on the back, 
one inch long; (whole flower 2 inches) and half an inch wide (dry) 
white with yellow centre, Anthers acuminate above, with 2 descending 
points, filaments hairy. Style cylindric pubescent, Disc of 5 lounded 
lobes. Fruit unknown. 
Penan- Road to Balik Pulau (Ridley.944D (Curtis 832) Perak 
Gopeng (King’s Collector 6,000) and Larut (3636) Temengoh ( 1 ey 
14271) Malacca Brisu (Derry 543-) 
This is easily distinguished from C, Rheedei by its leaves nar- 
rowed towards each end but not cordate at the base very broad y ovate 
or elliptic hairy on both sides, and the large cymose ^a^scence o 
many flowers, of much smaller size and more hany. Deiry gives tn 
name of “ Akar Gerip-gerip merah ” for it, a name applied to several 
local rubber vines. 
Closely allied to these plants is one from the Philippines, 
province of Rizal, Luzon (Ahern’s Collector No II41) which has the 
cordate leaves of C. Rheedei bul hairy above, and long Pebote 
s. £ 
in the Journal ot buence rv j 4 . . xhe description 
present unnamed. H. N. R. 
NOTES ON CHINESE SWINE CULTURE. 
We have received from M. Loudon W. Douglas a copy ol an 
important lecture delivered by him at the ^"’^“Van^nfthe 
on the position of swine husbandly. In his lettei accomp. y ° , 
writes- “The subject of swine husbandry has attracte 
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agriculturists everywhere and I sincerely hope that the counsel 
offered in my lecture may prove seiviceable. 
