222 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Flowers in axillary fascicled or panicled racemes. Calyx cupular, entire 

 or obscurely 4-6-lobed. Petals 4-5, free, linear-oblong, thick, imbricate. 

 Stamens 8 or 10, inserted around a cupular annular or elevated disc ; 

 filaments equal or not, linear-subulate, free or cuneate ; anthers linear or 

 linear-oblong. Ovary 2-4-celled; style stout, deciduous, stigma capitate ; 

 ovules 2, superposed in each cell. Berry large, ellipsoid, with a thick 

 rind, 2-3- seeded. Seeds large, ovoid ; testa membranous, nerved ; coty- 

 ledons equal, oblong, fleshy, — Distrib. About 4 species : tropical 

 Asiatic, 



Leaflets oblong-lanceolate to oblong-oblan- 

 ceolate ; filaments glabrous, united into 

 a tube ... ... ... 1 L. scandens. 



Leaflets elliptic, more or less obovate ; 



filaments free, often woolly ... 2 L. eleutheranthera. 



1. LuvuNGA SCANDENS, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6382. A large woody 

 climber. Leaflets oblong-lanceolate to obloug-oblanceolate, acute or 

 blunt, the base narrowed, nerves very obscure ; length 4 to 12 in,, 

 breadth I to 2 in., petiolules about '2 in. ; petioles terete, stout, 2 to 5 

 in. long. Cymes many-flowered, short, broad, (I'S to 2 in. across), on 

 short peduncles. Floioers h to "75 in. long, white. Calyx-lobes short, 

 obtuse. Petals 4, fleshy, recurved. Stamens with glabrous filaments 

 united into a tube (sometimes for three-quarters of their length). 

 Ovary 3- to 4-celled. Berry of the size of a large olive, yellowish, 

 obscurely 3-lobed, the pericarp smooth. Hook, fll. Fl. Br. Ind, I, 509 ; 

 Kurz For. Flora Burmah 1, 191 ; Wight 111, i, 108 ; Oliv, in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. v, Suppl, ii, 43 ; Bot. Mag, t. 4522. Pierre For. Flora Coch. 

 Chine, t. 288. Limonia scandens, Roxb. Fl, Ind, ii. 380. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 285, Distrib. British India, 

 2. LuvUNGA ELEUTHERANTHEKA, Dalz. in Hook, Kew Journ, Bot. II, 

 258. A woody climber like the last, the spines usually hooked ; leaflets 

 elliptic and usually more or less obovate, shortly and abruptly acumi- 

 nate ; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, slightly prominent. Cijmes axillary, 

 many- or few-flowered. Filaments free, often woolly in the upper part. 

 Fruit as in the last. Hook. fil. Fl. Br, Ind. I. 511 ; Oliv. in Journ, Linn. 

 Soc, V, Suppl. ii. 44 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Elor, 30. L. tavoyana, Lindl, 

 in Wall. Cat. 6383. L. scandens and eleutheranthera, Thwaites, Enum, 

 47 48, 406. Triphasia sarmentosa, Blume Bijd. 132 ; Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat, 



I. pt, 2, p. 520. 



Perak: common. Pahang. Penang, — Distrib. Malayan Archi- 

 pelago, W. Peninsula of British India, Ceylon. 



This plant differs from L. scandens (to which it is closely allied) in 

 having more obovate leaves, Avith much more distinct nervation, and 



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