90 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



almost succulent ; placentas much intruded ; style linear, with 2 round 

 stigmatic lobes. Capsule broad-ellipsoid, crustaceous, almost succulent 

 (dehiscence not clear) ; style persistent; seeds 300 ^« in diam., ovoid, 

 somewhat angular, brown. 



Perak, Waterloo : Bobertson 9088. Selangor : Sua Batu, Bidley ; 

 Gua Batu, Bidley 8218. Kedah : Langkaui, Curtis 2516. 



This species, the only one in the sub-genus, differs in the sestivation of the corolla, 

 the number of the stamens, the anthers all equal, the persistent style, from the 

 characters assigned to Canscora. 



4. Crawfuedia, Wall. 



Glabrous twiners. Leaves opposite, petioled, 3-nerved. Floivers 

 showy, axillary. Calyx tubular ; teeth 5 (or 4), long, often very long. 

 Corolla long, tubular-funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, short. Stamens 5 on 

 the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong. Ovary stalked, 1-celled, placentas 

 parietal ; style linear, stigmas 2, short-oblong. Fruit globose or ellip- 

 soid, berried or capsular ; seeds many, 2- (or imperfectly 3-) angled. — 

 DiSTRiB. Species 10-12, extending from India to Manchuria. 



1. Crawfurdia Blumii, G. Don Syst. IV. 200. Stem often 3 to 

 4 feet long. Leaves (blade) 1'5 by -75 in., ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire ; 

 base rounded or narrowed ; petiole -35 in. Floivers axillary, solitary, 

 sub-sessile, or the pedicel '25 to 1-5 in. long. Calyx narrow, angular ; 

 tube -2 in. long, teeth -25 in. long, linear. Corolla 1-25 to 1'5 in. long, 

 lif^ht purple. Fruit "6 in. long, ellipsoid, purple, succulent. Seeds 

 imperfectly 3-angular, angles (or 2 of them) often narrowly winged. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. v. II. 561 {Bliimei). C. trinervis, Hassk. Cat. Hort. 

 Bocfor. 128, in Tidjsch. Nat. Gesch. X. 126. Tripterospermum trinerve, 

 Blume Bijd. 849 ; Griseb. in DC. Prod. IX. p. 121. [Cf. C. B. Clarke 

 in Fl. Br. Ind. IX. p. 107, sub Craivfurdid affini, Wallich.] 



Pahang, 7,000 feet alt. : Wray 1570.-— Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 



5. Villarsia, Vent. 



Floating, glabrous herbs. Leaves long -petioled, ovate, entire or 

 sinuate. Peduncles solitary, 1- (or many-) flowered. Calyx deeply 

 5-lobed. Corolla broadly campanulate ; tube short, lobes sub-rotate. 

 Stamens 5 ; filaments filiform, on the corolla-tube ; anthers sagittate. 

 Ovary 1-celled ; style short ; stigma of 2 small lobes ; placentas parietal. 

 Capsule globose, 1-celled, 4-valved at the apex ; seeds several (or 

 numerous). — Distrib. Species 12, in Africa or in Australia, except the 

 following Malay species. 



1. Villarsia aurantiaca, Eidley MS. A small herb ; stems 2 in. 

 300 



