264 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Perak : at Theripay Taipay, Scortechini ; Wray 2840 ; Cantley 23 ; 

 King's Collector 2890, 3398, 7059.— Distrib. Sumatra, Forbes 2906. 



A very fine species of well-marked characters. 



12. Jasminum Scortechinii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender 

 climbing shrub, reaching 60 feet in length ; branchlets dark-coloured, 

 glabrous. Leaves thin when young, almost coriaceous when old, 3- 

 sometimes 1-foliolate, opposite or sub-opposite ; terminal leaflet ovate 

 or lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded at base ; glabrous on both 

 surfaces, upper surface shining, nearly black when dry, lower surface 

 dull, reddish when dry; 2-5 to 4 in. long, 1 to 1'5 in. broad; lateral 

 leaflets similar but slightly smaller and often lanceolate ; midrib slender, 

 raised beneath ; main-nerves very indistinct, apparently 6 to 8 pairs ; 

 petiole -75 in. long, petiolule of end leaflet "5, of side leaflets '3 in. long, 

 all grooved, slender, articulate below the leaflet. Floioers white, in 

 axillary or terminal trichotomous cymes, terminal ones often panicu- 

 late ; peduncles '5 to 1 in. long ; bracts ovate-acute or subulate, •! in. 

 long ; cymes sparsely scaly ; bracteoles at the base of the calyx minute ; 

 pedicels •! to '2 in. long, very much enlarged in fruit and then reaching 

 *5 to "7 in. in length and -3 in. in diam. at top. Calyx-tuhe campanulate, 

 •125 in. long ; teeth 5, very short, triangular. Corolla-tube slender, en- 

 larged above, -4 to -6 in. long ; lobes 5, ovate-cordate, obtuse, '3 to -4 in. 

 long, spreading. Stamens included in the corolla-tube ; filaments short ; 

 anthers oblong, mucronate, -15 in. long, connective broad. Ovary 

 cylindrical, glabrous, 2-celled ; style slender, as long as the corolla-tube ; 

 stigma clavate. Fruit didymous ; carpels ellipsoid, -75 to 1 in. long, 

 •5 in. broad ; pericarp thin, crustaceous, blackish-brown. Seed nearly 

 filling the cavity ; testa thin, fragile ; cotyledons oblong-obtuse, slightly 

 auricled at base, -5 to -6 in. long by -25 in. broad, plano-convex. 



Penang : Curtis 1227, 2031. Perak : Scortechini 383, 479 ; Biclley 

 10679 ; King's Collector 7006, 7009 ; Curtis 169. 



The description is largely after Scortechini MS. The species comes very near J. 

 lanceolaria, Roxb., but differs in its more slender habit, thinner leaves, and large 

 ellipsoid carpels. 



Ridley's No. 8325 from Lankawi Island, Kedah, is a twiggy, apparently erect shrub 

 with trifoliolate leaves, the leaflets all obovate-orbicular emarginate, the end one 

 reaching 1-7 in. long and 1-3 in. broad, the side ones only about -6 in. long and broad. 

 The fruits are of one carpel about the size of a small pea, and the flowers are unknown. 

 It may possibly not be a Jasmijium (Herb. Kew). 



The following species from Borneo is of interest, and may perhaps 

 be found later on in the Peninsula : — 



Jasminum sarawacense. King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing shrub ; branchlets 

 pale brown, terete ; internodes rather long. Leaven opposite, chartaceous ; elliptic- 

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