Tap. 7853. 



DISCHIDIA HIRSDTA. 

 Native of Malaya. 



Nat. Ord, Asclepiade^. — Tribe Marsdenie.b. 

 Genus Dischidia, Br. ; (Benih. & Hooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 777.) 



DiscHiDiA hirsuta; scandena, tota floribus exceptis papillosa canlibns tenuibus 

 flexuosis fusco-purpureis nodis radicantibns, internodiis foliis longioribns, 

 foliia pollicaribus brevissime petiolatis orbiculari-ovatis mucronatis plus 

 minusve papillosis et hispido-pilosis, subtus inter nervoa lacunosis fuBCo- 

 viridibus, nervia utrinque ad 4, racemia intra-petiolaribus paucifloria 

 brevissime pedunculatia, floribus breviter pedicellatis, calycia lobia 

 minutis ovatis obtusis, corolla glabra ^ poll. longa carnosa urceolata.tubo 

 inferne globoso atro-sanguineo superne constricto roseo apice 5-fido lobia 

 ovatis ereotis, intus annulis 2 pilorum uno fauci altero sito inbtructo, 

 coronae exterioris squamis erectia malleiformibua. 



D. hirsuta, Decne. in DG. Prodi: vol. viii. p. 632. Rook.f. Fl. Brit, Ind. vol. 

 iv. p. 60. W. "Watson in Gard Ghron. 1896, vol. ii. p. 182. 



D. Brunoniana, Griff. Notul. PI. Asiat, pars IV. p. 44, Ic. PI. Asiat. vol. iv. 

 t. 410 A fig. 1. (polliniis et squamia erroneis). 



D. fasciculata, Decne. I.e. 



Leptostemma hirsutum & fasciculatum, Blume, Bijdr. p. 1058. 



Dischidia is a tropical Asiatic and Australian genus, of 

 about twenty-five species, of which that here figured is the 

 first known to me as having flowered in Europe. One 

 species, B. Rafflesiana, is remarkable for the conversion of 

 its leaves into water-holding ascidia, into which the roots 

 at tbe nodes descend. It is a widely distributed species 

 from E. Bengal to Australia, and is grown at Kew, where, 

 however, it has never flowered, but forms abundance of 

 leaf-pitchers. D. hirsuta is one of the smallest leaved of 

 the genus ; it inhabits the southernmost provinces of 

 Burma, Tenasserim, the Malayan Peninsula, and Java. 

 Plants of it were sent to the Eoyal Gardens, Kew, from 

 Singapore, by Mr. Ridley. The stem clings, like ivy, to 

 the wall of the Nepenthes house in the Royal Gardens. 

 It flowers in spring and summer. 



Descr.—Stem very slender, scandent, covered with 

 papillae ; internodes longer than the leaves; nodes rooting. 

 Leaves about an inch long, very shortly petioled, orbicular- 

 ovate, acute, base rounded, lacunose between the nerves 



September 1st, 19C2. 



