130 Materials for a Flora of fhe Malai/an Penivsula. 



has 3 pai'ietal multi-ovulate placentas, while the fruit is a 3-valvecl many-seeded 

 capsule. Planchon [Ann. des So. Nat. Ser. IV. Bot., Vol. II, p. 260 (1854,)] suggests 

 the formation of a natural order for the reception of the single species Eryfhro- 

 palum, a suggestion followed by Miquel ; while Baillon puts it (along with Olacineas 

 Santalacese, Ampelidex, Styraceae, and Loranthese proper) into his order Loranthacdes. 

 Messrs. Hooker and Bentham put Eryfhropalum into Olacinese, where, in spite 

 of its affinities -with the Cornaceous genus Nysga, it may be left for the present, 

 although its inferior fruit makes its inclusion in Olacinese rather an anomaly. To 

 this genus also without doubt belong Decastrophia, Griffith (Notulae IV, 737) ; Ery- 

 thropalla, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor, 191 ; and in all probability (as Valenton sug- 

 gests) the obscure plant named Balingayum decumhens by Blanco (Fl. de Filip. 187.) 



1. Erythropalum scandens, Blume Bijdr. 921. Leaves membranous, 

 ovate-oblong or elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the base round- 

 ed or minutely cordate, sub-peltate ; basal nerves 3 to 5, two of 

 them minute ; lateral nerves about 4 pairs, distant, faint : length 3 to 6 

 in., breadth J "75 to 375 in., petiole 75 to 175 in. Tendrils (abortive 

 peduncles) simple or bifid, thickened upwards. Cymes slender, shorter 

 than the leaves, divaricate, the peduncles long. Floivers under "1 in. in 

 diam. Fruit oblong, ellipsoid or slightly obovoid, glabrous, the epicarp 

 yellowish. Seed large, ovoid, without testa. Miq. Fl. lud. Bat. I, Pt, 1, 

 704 ; Hook, fib Fl. Br. Ind. I, 578 ; Pierre For. Flor. Coch. Chine, t, 

 269 A ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 234 ; Valeton Olacinese 132 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 7539 Menisperma ? ; also No. 9033 (without name). Cocculus 

 caloplnjllus, Wall. MSS. 



Malacca, Perak : — Distrib. Java, Burmah, Tropical Himalaya, 

 Khasia Hills. 



Closely allied to, if not identical with, this is E. vagum, Mast. And 

 E.popidifoUum Mast. (Wall. Cat. Nos. 1233 bis. and 2248 ; Passiflora 

 Eeyneana, Wall.) 



21. Ptelbocarpa, Oliv. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, penni-nerved, petiolate. Lifloi-- 

 escence terminal, panicled, many-flowered. Floivers regular, dichlamy- 

 deous, hermaphrodite. Calyx tubular below, limb deeply 5-pai^ted, lobes 

 imbricate, not accrescent. Cm-olla tubular below-limb deeply 6-parted, 

 lobes imbricate, glabrous. Stamens 5, glabrous, attached to the tube 

 of the corolla, alternate with its lobes ; anthers linear-oblong, innate, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary free, stipitate, 2-celled ; styles 2, 

 stigmas small ; ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous, anatropal, raphe 

 lateral or subventral. Fruit 2-celled, saraaroid, orbicular, emarginate ; 

 the wings broad, thin, striate. Seed elongate, much compi'essed, albu- 

 minous ; radicle superior, cylindrical ; cotyledons linear-lanceolate, longer 

 than the radicle. — Distrib. Species 2, both Malayan. 



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