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EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF BOTANY E D VOLUME 66, NO. 3 (2009) I N B U CONTENTS R G A new species and a new combination in Friesodielsia(Annonaceae) of Borneo. H I. M. TURNER 365 J AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT The Hedyotis–Oldenlandia–Kohautiacomplex (Rubiaceae) in Nepal: a study of fruit, O seed and pollen characters and their taxonomic significance. U SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY S. NEUPANE, S. DESSEIN& T. J. MOTLEY 371 R A revision of Aeschynanthus(Gesneriaceae) in Cambodia, Laos and N Vietnam. D. J. MIDDLETON 391 A VOLUME 66, NO. 3 L Systematics of Clemensiella(Apocynaceae – Asclepiadoideae). U. MEVE, O. LAURENTE, G. J. ALEJANDRO& T. LIVSHULTZ 447 O Nomenclatural transfers in east Malesian Myrsine(Myrsinaceae), and the description of F M. warrae, a distinctive new species from ultrabasic environments in Papua B New Guinea. W. TAKEUCHI& J. PIPOLY 459 O What is the dithecous leaf? An investigation of the neotropical Podostemum rutifolium T A subsp. ricciiforme(Podostemaceae – Podostemoideae). I. JÄGER-ZÜRN 469 N Book reviews Y Phycology(4th edition), by Robert Edward Lee 483 Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible, by Wolfgang Stuppy & Rob Kesseler 485 British Alpine Hawkweeds: A Monograph of British Hieraciumsection Alpina, by D. J. Tennant & T. C. G. Rich 487 V o Reviewers for Volume 66 489 lu Index to Volume 66 491 m e Volume contents 6 6 , N o . 3 , p p . 3 6 5 – 5 1 8 N o v e m b e r 2 0 0 The cover illustration, drawn by Mary Mendum, is of the diminutive alpine plant Sibbaldia 9 procumbens, named in honour of one of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s founders Robert Sibbald. This plant is used, in a stylised form, as the Garden’s official logo. 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