362 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. D. SAEMENTOSA, Linn. Leaves 3 to 5 in., obovate, ovate or 

 broadly lanceolate, obtuse or acute, quite entire, serrate or crenate, 

 oppressed pilose ; both surfaces ; scabrid ; nerves 9 to 11 pairs, straight, 

 ascending, prominent: length 25 to 3 5 in., breadth 1 to 2 in., petiole 

 •4 to 5 in. Flowers i to i in. in diam.; in tomentose or pilose spreading 

 panicles that are often leafy. iSepaZs refiexed. DC. Prod. i. 69; Wall. 

 Cat. 6632 ; Bot. Mag t. 3058 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. ii, 7 ; Hook. 

 Fl. Fl. B. Ind. I, 31. D. intermedia, Bl. Bijdr. Tetracera sarmentosa, 

 Willd.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 645. Leontoglossum scahrum, Hauce in 

 Walp. Ami. ili 812. 



Var. I. GLABRA; fruit glabrous. 



Yar. 2. HEBiiCARPA; fruit hairy. D. hehecarpa, DC. Prod, i, 70, 

 Deless. Tc. Sel. t. 72 ; Wall. Cat. 6633. D. intermedia, Blume. Davilla 

 hirsula, Teysm. et Binn. Delimopsis, hirta, Miq. 



2. D. Laivis, Maingay MSS. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to narrowly 

 elliptic, acute, entire, the base cuneate or rounded; nerves 8 to 9 pairs, 

 ascending, prominent ; upper surface smooth, shining, the lower pu- 

 beiulous, neither of them scabrid, length 5 to 7*5 in., breadth 2 to 35 

 in. ; petiole "8 in., broad. Flowers 'b in. in diam., in narrow tomentose 

 leafless panicles longer than the leaves. Sepals reflexed. 



Malacca, Maingay No. 10. Collected only hy the late Dr. Maingay. 



2. Tetraceea, Linn. 



Climbing shrubs or trees, smooth, scabrid, or pubescent. Leaves 

 with parallel lateral veins. Flowers in terminal or lateral panicles, her- 

 maphrodite Of partially 1-sexual. Sepals 4 to 6, spreading. Petals 4 to 6. 

 Stamens many, filaments dilated upwards, anther-cells distant. Carpels 

 3 to 5 ; ovules many, 2-seriate. Follicles coriaceous, shining. Seeds 1 to 5, 

 with a fimbriated or toothed aril. — Distrib. All tropical ; species 

 about 25. 



1. T. AsSA. DC. Prod. i. 68. Young branches striate, pubescent or 

 sub-'strigose. Leaves 2 to 6 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, obscurely 

 sinuate or serrate, glabrous except the nerves beneath. Panicles axillary 

 and terminal, shorter than the leaves, few-flowered. Follicles several- 

 st-eded. W. and A. Prod. 5 ; Hassk. PI. Rar. Jav. ]77 ; Hook. fil. and 

 Th Fl. Ind. i, (33 ; Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. L 31; Miq Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 



Pt. ii. 8. 



Common throughout Indo-Malaya, at low elevations. 



2. T. EORYANDRA, Vahl. Synib. iii, 71. Young bi-anclies tomentose. 

 Leaves rigid, 3 to 4 in. long, oblong or obovate-oblong, entire or obscurely 

 sinuate, above glabrous except the midrib, below minutely tomentose 

 when yonng. Panicles terminal and axillary, shorter tliau the leaves, 



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