192 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Cymes 8- to 10-flowered, ebracteate ov bracts small and fugacious, when 

 in flower not much exceeding the petioles in length; the peduncles 

 much shorter (longer in var. corymhosa) than the pubescent pedicels. 

 Flowers '15 in. long, their pedicels '3 to '4 in. long. Calyx a shallow 

 truncate adpressed-hairy cup, its mouth with 5 short triangular teeth. 

 Corolla longer than the calyx, glabrous. Fruit globular, glabrescent, 

 crowned by the calyx-lobes, '15 in. in diam. Koord. & Valet. Bijdr. 8, 

 68. Axanthes longifoUa, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VII. 145 t. 2, 

 f. 1. U. strigosum, Kurz Fl. Burm. II. 53 {not of Korthals). TJ. longi- 

 folium, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 99. 



Penang : Curtis 2753. Selangor : Ridley 7440, 8576. Perak : 

 Wray 2201, 3511 ; Scortechini 267, 715 ; King's Collector 28S8, 2948, 2964. 



Var. corymhosa ; cymes 1 or 2 in the axils of the leaves, often as 

 much as 3*5 in. long (including the long peduncle), trichotomously 

 corymbose ; stipules longer than the petioles, broadly oblong lanceolate, 

 Bometimes auricled at the base, pubescent. Urophyllum corymhosum, 

 Korth. Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 194 ; Koord. & Valet. Bijdr. 8, 73. 



Perak: Scortechini. King's Collector, 2263, 2298, 2409, 5723. 

 JOHOR : King. — Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 



3. Urophyllum hirsutum. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind., II. 98. Young 

 branches slender, softly cinereous-tomentose like the stipules, petioles, 

 and inflorescence. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly 

 elliptic, acuminate, the base rounded or sometimes narrowed ; upper 

 surface glabrous, rarely sub-glabrous ; the lower with pale soft spread- 

 ing hairs especially on the midrib and nerves ; main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, 

 curved, ascending ; length 3 to 5 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiole '15 to 

 •25 in. ; stipules much longer than the petioles, linear-lanceolate. Cymes 

 small, capitate, sessile, few-flowered, with a few ovate-lanceolate bracts. 

 Calyx hairy, on a short stalk ; the tube very short ; the limb with 5 

 broad triangular spreading lobes. Corolla hairy. Fruit depressed- 

 globose, the apex truncate, crowned by the small remains of the calyx, 

 sparsely pubescent, '15 to '2 in. in diam. when dry. Axanthes hirsuta, 

 Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VII, 148. Wendlandia bifaria, Wall. 

 Cat. 6278. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 873; Griffith (K.D.) 2939; WalUch, 

 Goodenough. Penang : Ridley 10251. Selangor: Ridley 7442. Negri 

 Sembilan: Ridley 10100. Singapore: Ridley 8906, 4913, 8428. 

 Johor: Ridley 4^912, urn, 1117 4f. Perak: Scortechini 84; Wray 152, 

 1305, 2488 ; King's Collector 199, 10494. Pahang : Ridley 2204, 2206. 



Thia speries vai-ifs oonsidprably as to tVie anioTiiit of hair on the leaves anri ns to 

 the number of the main-nerves. I refer to it with some hesitation Ridley 11176 

 from Johor, No. 8577 from Selangor, Scortechini 267 from Perak. 



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