Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 79 



long pedicels bisexual. Ovary 3 winged. Perianth tube very short. 

 Sepals and petals subequal spreading. Stamens 6, filaments very 

 short. Anthers broad with divaricate loculi, connective prolonged into 

 a long cylindric process. Style short and thick. Stigmas 3 bilobed 

 thick rounded pear-shaped. Fruit indehiscent three winged. Seeds 

 wrinkled. Species 1, India, Ceylon and Malay Peninsula. 



Tr. zeylanicus, Gaertn. Fruct. Vol. L p. 44, t. 14. Ehizome very 

 short. Stems 3-4 inches tall terminated by a tuft of small bracts, 

 and a single lanceolate or cordate ovate leaf 3-4 inches long l-2£ inch 

 wide. Petiole 2-3 inches long. Flowers 1-4 from the tuft of bracts 

 on pedicels 1-2 inches long. Perianth tube very short campanulate 

 lobes ovate lanceolate spreading purple. Fruit triangular triquetrous on 

 an elongate pendulous pedicel, 2 inches long ; green with pink spots, f 

 inch long, f inch wide. 



Beccari, Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. II. p. 13, t. 3. Beddome Ic. PI. 

 Ind. or. p. 68, t. 290. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 13, t. 3, 

 Trimen. Flora of Ceylon VI. p. 279. Hook. fil. Bot. Mag. t. 7530. 



Trichopodium cordatum, intermedium and angustifolmm. Lindl. 

 Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1543. T. zeylanicum Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. p. 391, 

 443. Podianthus arifolius Schnitzl. Bot. Zeit. Vol. I. 1843, p. 739. 



Pahang, Tahan Woods (Ridley). Distrib. Travancore and Ceylon. 



2. DlOSCOEEA, L. 



Climbers with tuberous rhizome. Stems branched spiny or terete 

 or winged. Leaves opposite or alternate entire or digitately 3-5 foliate 

 with 3-9 veins. Flowers very small in spikes or racemes pendulous, 

 unisexual, male flower. Perianth lobes short rotate. Stamens 6 or 3 

 imperfect or absent, inserted at the base of the segments. Pistillode 

 various. Female flower. Perianth as in male. Staminodes 3 or 6. 

 Style short or absent. Stigmas 3 linear entire or bifid. Ovary 3 angled, 

 3 celled. Ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule 3 winged loculicidal. Seeds 

 flat winged. 



Species 150. All warm parts of the world. 

 Leaves 3 to 5 foliolate. Capsule oblong. 



Stamens 6 ••• 1. D. daemona. 



Stamens perfect 3 ... ... ••• ... 2. D. pentaphylla. 



Leaves simple. Capsule broader than long. 



Sepals broadly oblong or orbicular. 

 Leaves pubescent beneath. 



Base cordate. 



Upper surface glabrous 3. D. comifolia. 



Upper surface hairy ... A. D. poly eludes. 



Leaves simply pubescent. Sepals orbicular 5. D. pyrifolia. 



