Finlay sonia.] 
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5 . FINLAYSONIA, Wall. 
Glabrous climber. Leaves fleshy. Flowers in di- or tri- 
chotomous axillary branched cymes, fairly large, yellow spotted 
purple. Calyx short. Corolla rotate, lobes deep, broad, orbicular, 
overlapping to right. Corona-processes 5, filiform behind stamens. 
Stamens in throat, filaments slender; anthers adnate to style; 
tip with broad inflexed, acute appendages. Pollen-carriers attached 
to angles of style-tip; appendicles slender, dilate above. Pollen 
granular, pollen-masses cohering in pairs in each cell. Style 
slender, tip large, truncate, 5-angled, conic. Follicles 2, fleshy 
ventricose, 3- to 4-ribbed. Seeds ovate with a few hairs along 
the edge and a short tuft at top. Species 1, Bengal and Malay 
peninsula, Siam. 
(1) F. obovata Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 48, t. 162; King, l.c. 513. 
Bark pale papery. Leaves obovate blunt, base cuneate, 3 to 
5 in. long, 1*5 to 2*5 in. wide; petioles *5 to 1 in. long. Cymes 
2 to 3 in. long. Corolla *25 in. across, dull yellow, inner half of 
lobes purplish and hairy. Fruit green, fleshy ovoid hooked, 3 in. 
long, 2 in. through. Seeds flat, brown, very numerous, 7 to -8 in. 
long. Hob. Tidal rivers. Singapore, Gelang; Kranji. Johor, 
Batu Pahat. Malacca (Maingay). Selangor, Kwala Selangor. 
Perak (Scortechini). Province Wellesley, Butterworth. Lankawi, 
Kwah (Curtis). 
6. GYMNANTHERA, Br. 
Climbing shrub, woody. Leaves chartaceous. Flowers small 
in short racemes lengthening, 2 to 3 on a short axillary peduncle; 
bracts persistent. Calyx with 10 (or 5) minute scales between the 
lobes. Corolla rotate. Corona-processes unequally bifid subulate 
behind the stamens. Stamens insert in tube; anthers adherent 
to style-tip produced into acuminate connivent appendages. 
Pollen-carriers large, spathulate; pollen granular. Style-apex 
convex. Follicles cylindric. Species about 5, Malaya, Australia. 
(1) G. insularum King and Gamble, l.c. 514. 
Leaves elliptic to oblong short-pointed, base shortly narrowed; 
nerves faint, 14 pairs; 2-5 to 3-5 in. long, 1 to 1*5 in. wide, pale 
beneath; petioles *5 to 75 in. long. Racemes *4 in. long. Calyx 
scales 10. Corolla-lobes ovate acute, *2 in. long. Hab. Lankawi, 
small islands (Curtis). Rare. 
7 . ATHERANDRA, Dene. 
Slender twiner. Flowers small in lax peduncled cymes. Calyx- 
tube turbinate; scales 4, quadrate, crenulate. Corolla rotate; 
lobes long linear-lanceolate; tube narrowed at base. Corona- 
processes filiform. Stamens insert at base; filaments free with 
glands between; anthers ovate, connate with style-tip, with long 
