88 Flora of the Malayan Feninsula. 



base of the midrib; the lower uniformly pale-pubescent; midrib clis- 

 tinct; main-nerves (18 to ] 2 pairs) very indistinct on both surfaces J 

 length 2 to 4 in.; breadth 1 to 1-6 in.; petiole '3 or '4 in., pubescent. 

 Stipules broadly oblong, blunt, scaly, '2 in. long. Capitula on puberu- 

 lous peduncles '2 to '3 in. long, in fascicles of 3 or 4 at the apices of the 

 branches. Flmvers '4 in. long, confluent by their calyces into globular 

 capitula '2 in. in diam. Calyx very short, cupular. Corolla salver- 

 shaped, '35 in. long, the tube narrow, the limb with deflexed oblong 

 blunt lobes '1 in. long, densely hairy on the upper surface. Infru- 

 tescence when ripe pulpy, elliptic (often transversely so) with one or two - 

 elongate very protruding enlarged calyx-tubes. 



Perak : King's Collector 4004 ; Wray 2284 ; Bidley 7204, 10258 ; 

 Enllett 5665. Singapore: Bidley 3818, 4126. Malacca: Griffith (K- 

 B.) 29 i,7 ','Maingay (K.D.) 874.— Distrib. Borneo. 



4. Morinda dmbellata, Linn. Sp. PI. 176. A powerful glabrous, 

 climber ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, pale-brown, angled, 

 shining. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrowly oblong or elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, the apex shortly acuminate, the base much narrowed ; both sur- 

 faces pale olivaceous-brown when dry, transversely reticulate; main- 

 nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, ascending, faint; length 3*5 to 6 in.; breadth 

 1 to 135 ; petioles '2 to '3 in. ; stipules sheathing, entire, truncate, or 

 slightly toothed, '15 in, long. Heads sub-globular, about *25 in. in diam., 

 on slender peduncles varying from "35 to 1 in. in length (lengthening in 

 fruit to nearly 2 in.) from 5 to 8 collected in an ebracteate umbel at 

 the end of a branch. Calyx sessile, truncate. Corolla almost rotate, 

 longer than the calyx, its tube about 1' in. long, slightly constricted 

 at the mouth, throat densely villous ; limb '2 in. across, its lobes oblong, 

 obtuse, glabrous on the outer surface, densely woolly on the inner. Ripe 

 infrutescences about '25 in. in diam. DC. Prod. IV. 449; W. & A. Prod. 

 420 ; Wall. Cat. 8431 ; Kurz For. Flora, Burma, II. 62 ; Hook fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. III. 157. M. scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 548 ; DC. Prod. IV. 449. 

 M. tetrandra, Jack in Mai. Misc. I. 13; Wall. Cat. 8432; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. 11. 203 ; DC. I.e. M. Padavora, Juss. Gen. 206. 

 Morinda, Wall. Cat. 8429. 



In all the provinces ; common. — Distrib. Burma, Southern India' 

 9,nd Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, China, Japan, Austi'alia. 



VAR. Scortechitiii, King & Gamble. Young brandies, under sur- 

 faces of the leaves, and peduncles rusty-pubescent; Zeai^es elliptic-obo- 

 vate, shortly and abruptly acuminate ; pedicels 15 to 2 in. long. 



Perak : Scortechini 2015. Collected only once. 



YAR. Ridleyi, King & Gamble. Young branches and under surfaces 



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