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Nauclea peduncularis Don. becomes Neonauclea peduncularis, 
Merrill, l.c. p. 544. 
Nauclea purpurascens, Korth, becomes Neonauclea purpurascens, 
Ridl. 
Vol. ii. p. 23, sp. I, Argostemma acuminatum King, note : — 
A. insequilaterum Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. p. 95, is the earliest 
name for this plant and should be substituted for it. Bennett’s 
species was based upon a plant from Penang in Herb. D. Brown, 
ex Herb. Soc. Hort. This is in the herbarium of the Natural 
History Museum, and is evidently the plant collected by Dr. Wallich 
in Penang. It has not been found in Penang since. 
Vol. ii. p. 24, after sp. 4, Argostemma pictum Wall., insert 
(4 a) a. humile Benn. H. Jav. Rar. p. 94. 
A small glabrous herb, 2-5 in. tall. Leaves 2 pairs or more, 
unequal, one thin herbaceous lanceolate acuminate, narrowed to 
the base, sessile or very shortly petioled, glabrous; nerves 4 or 5 
pairs; 2 in. long, -5 to 75 in. wide; small leaf, lanceolate sessile, 
•25 in. long. Stipules small oi^ate-lanceolate. Peduncle very 
slender, i in, long. Flowers 4 to 7 in an umbel, pedicels slender 
puberulous, *25 to *3 in. long. Bracts lanceolate, *25 in. long. 
Calyx very short campanulate, lobes rather large, broadly lanceo¬ 
late. Corolla-tube very short, lobes lanceolate acuminate, -3 in. 
long. Stamens short, not connate; filaments as long as the 
oblong blunt anthers, free. Hab. Penang (Jack in Herb. Wallich 
8391)' 
This has never been met with again, but Hooker in Ft. Brit. 
Ind. vol. iii. 44, referred to it some Khasiya plants to which it has 
certainly some affinity, but which I think are distinct. It is quite 
unlike anything else in the Malayan region, and belongs to the 
Indian section of the genus. A ticket in Wallich’s herbarium 
apparently in Jack’s handwriting, labelled “ Sonerila sp. novissima. 
The enclosed are ripe capsules which may probably grow ” seems 
to show that Wallich’s own label " Penang, Jack ” is correct. 
(4b) a. bifolium Ridl. 
Stem very short. Leaves 2, spreading on the ground, sessile 
ovate acuminate, base round unequal, glabrous except for a few 
small hairs sprinkled on the upper side, larger leaf 4 in. long, 2 in. 
wide, the smaller one 2 in. long. Peduncle 3 in. long, with an 
umbel of 13 flowers. Bracts narrow lanceolate. Pedicels slender, 
•4 in. long. Calyx campanulate, lobes oblong blunt. Corolla 
•25 in. long, lobes narrow lanceolate-linear. Staminal column 
elliptic, as long or slightly longer, very shortly beaked. Hah. 
Perak, Maxwell’s Hill, Thaiping Hills (Ridley). 
I referred this formerly to A. pictum, Wall., but the leaves 
are quite sessile and more narrowed to the lip, and the flower 
quite different, the petals being very narrow and the stamen- 
column elongate oblong. 
