LXXIV. RUBIACEjE. 
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Argosiemma.] 
pubescent beneath, minutely scaly; nerves 9 pairs and reticulations 
strongly elevate, hairy; 1-25 to 2-25 in. long, 75 to 1 in. wide; 
petioles -i to -2 in. long. Small leaves ovate-lanceolate, *15 to *2 in. 
long. Stipules similar. Cyme peduncle 1*5 in. long, pubescent. 
Flowers 2 to 5 on pedicels *4 in. long. Calyx campanulate, pubes 
cent lobes short, tooth-like acute. Corolla -6 in. across, lobes 
narrow, lanceolate linear. Fruit globose, campanulate, *i in. long, 
glabrous or pubescent. Hab. Banks in forest; not rare. Negri 
Sembilan, Tampin Hill; Bukit Tangga, Seremban (Napier). Perak 
near Bera (Kunstler). 
var. obovata King (a form with shorter rounder leaves). Perak, 
Bujong Malacca, Thaiping Hills to 5000 ft. altitude. Penang Hill 
(all collectors). 
(17) A. nervosum Ridl. Journ. Roy. Soc. S. By. 79, p. 78. 
Stem long, creeping ascending 8 in, long, densely hairy. Leaves 
unequal, larger ones rather stiffly membranous, sessile, oblong blunt 
or minutely apiculate, base narrowed, unequally cordate, sparsely 
hairy above;, nerves beneath prominent, 11 to 12 pairs, densely 
