2o6 XIX. TERNSTRCEMiACEiE. [Penfaphylux. 



(i) p. malayana Ridl. Joitrn. Linn. Soc. xxxviii. 305. 



Bush about 6 ft. tall. Leaves thickly coriaceous, ovate blunt, 

 base round; nerves inconspicuous, 2 in. long, i in. wide. Pseudo- 

 spikes I in. long, dense. Bracts 4 ovate, edges cihate. Sepals 

 ovate-round ciliate. Petals linear-oblong retuse, white, "2 in. 

 long. Stamens shorter. Style cylindric, short. Stigma 5-lobed. 

 Capsule -25 in. long. Seeds linear curved. Hab. Abundant on 

 rocky open mountains 5500 ft. altitude, but local. Very con- 

 spicuous from its young red leaves ; Pahang, Gunong Tahan ; 

 Kluang Terbang (Barnes) ; Selangor, Gunong Mengkuang Lcbah 

 (Robinson); Gunong Ulu Kah (Burn-Murdoch). 



9. ACTINIDIA, Lindl. 



Glabrous or more or less tomentose shrubs often climbing. 

 Leaves usually membranous entire or serrate. Flowers unisexual 

 or bisexual in axillary cymes. Sepals 5, connate at base. Petals 5, 

 somewhat contorted imbricate. Stamens many. Ovary many- 

 celled. Styles as numerous, divergent and elongate after flowering. 

 Fruit baccate. Species 25, China, Japan and Himalaya, 2 Malayan. 



(i) A. Championii Ben/h. Fl. Hong Kong, 26. A. Miquelii King, 

 I.e. ig6; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. (2), 145, pi. 176. 



Scandent, 30 to 60 ft. tall.- Leaves membranous, ovate acumin- 

 ate to sub-rotund, minutely glandular-dentate, base rounded or 

 cordate, above glabrous except nerves and midrib, beneath tomen- 

 tose; nerves 5 pairs, 3 to 4 in. long, 2-5 to 3-5 in. wide; petioles 

 1-25 to 1-5 in. long. Cymes tomentose spreading; peduncles i'5, 

 lengthening to 3 in. long in fruit. Flowers unisexual, numerous, 

 •5 in. across. Sepals ovate, blunt, tomentose. Petals larger, 

 oblong-obovate. Stamens glabrous; anthers cordate. Ovary (in 

 males o or rudimentary) pilose. Fruit ovoid, 75 in. long, '4 in. 

 through, crowned by 15 to 20 styles. Hab. Hill woods, local, not 

 common, climbing on trees. Muar at Biawak (Curtis). Perak, 

 Thaiping Hills. Selangor, near TJlu Selangor. Disirib. Hong Kong, 

 Sumatra. 



10. SAURAUJA, Willd. 



Trees or shrubs. Branches and leaves strigose or scaly when 

 young. Leaves crowded towards the ends of branches, membranous 

 or chartaceous, usually serrate. Inflorescence cymose, sub-pani- 

 culate from the axils of fallen leaves, sometimes from the trunk. 

 Flowers usually bisexual, rather small, white or pink. Sepals 

 imbricate. Petals 5, connate at base. Anthers many, dehiscing 

 by pores or suturally. Ovary 3- to 5-celled; styles as many, 

 free or connate. Fruit baccate. Species about 60, tropical Asia 

 and America. 



