128 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



The leaves of this I'esemble those of I. ovalis, Bl. ; but they are 

 more velvet tj beneath. The calyx and fruit are much larger than in 

 that species and the cymes have fewer flowers. 



3. loDES OVALIS, Biume Bijdr. 30. A climbing shrub 20 to 60 

 feet long ; young branches slender, rufous-tomentose, striate, with a 

 few axillary or leaf-opposed tendrils. Leaves opposite, sub-coriaceous, 

 ovate to rotund, acute or very shortly acuminate, the base rounded 

 sometimes slightly emargiuate ; upper surface glaberulous, the midrib 

 and nerves rafous-tomentose like the whole of the lower surface ; main 

 nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending, prominent on the lower surface 

 as are the ti-ansverse veins ; length 2o to 5'5 in., breadth r75 to 8"25 in. 

 Male flowers in leaf-opposed or terminal, much-branched, lax, rufous- 

 tomentose cymes 6 to 8 in. long. Flowers '15 in. in diam., on pubescent 

 pedicels "l to '2 in. long. Calyx discoid, irregularly 3- to 6-toothed 

 rufous-villose. Corolla 5 or 6 times as long as the calyx, deeply divided 

 into 5 lanceolate lobes with long acuminate inflexed points, strigose 

 externally, glabrous internally ; stamens much shorter than the corolla- 

 lobes, the filaments much shorter than the broadly ovate anthers ; rudi- 

 mentary pistil erect, cylindric, pilose. Female floivers with calyx and 

 corolla like the male ; stamens 0. Ovary cylindric, tomentose, crowned by 

 a large discoid stigma wider than itself, 1- celled, with 2 pendulous 

 ovules. Drupe ovoid, compressed, slightly oblique at the base, rufous- 

 tomentose, crowned by the persistent stigma, 75 in. long, and -5 in. in 

 diam., pericarp thin ; endocarp bony, rugose outside, smooth inside. 

 Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 596 ; Beccari Malesia, I, 124 ; Baill. in 

 DC. Prod. XVI r, 22 ; I. tomentella cumvar. Br. in Benn, PI. Jav. Rar. 

 243, t. 48 ; Hassk. Cat. PI. Hort. Bogor. 172 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 795. 

 I. tomentella, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 796; Kurz For. Flora 

 Burmah I, 243. Natsatium oppositifoUzwi, Planch, in Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. V, 247. 



Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay. Perak ; Scortechini, Curtis, King's 

 Collector ; common. — Distrib. — Burmah, Sumatra. 



4. loDES OBLONGA, Planch. in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 597. A 

 slender climbing shrub ; young branches cinereous-tomentose, ulti- 

 mately glabrescent and rugose. Leaves membranous, oblong or ob- 

 long-lanceolate, glabrous above except the pilose midrib and nerves, 

 beneath adpressed-pilose, the midrib pubescent ; main nerves 7 or 8 

 pairs, curving, spreading; length 3 to 45 in., breadth I to 1-6 in., 

 petiole -3 or "4 in. Cymes of male floivers axillary or terminal, dichotom- 

 ously branched, slender, cinereous-pilose. Male flowers "05 in. long. 

 Calyx nearly as long as the corolla, with 5 deep lanceolate lobes. 

 Corolla rufous-tomentose externally. Female floivers and drupes not seen, 



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