Materials Jw a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 385^ 



each embracing a stamen. Filaments free, clavate ; anthers broad, 4- 

 celled. Ripe drupes 1 to 1"25 in. long, and about "6 in. broad, narrowly 

 8ub-obovoid, compressed ; pericarp of a thin pulp ; endocarp horny, nar- 

 rowly horse-shoe-shaped, the edge boldly ridged, the sides with deep 

 radiating grooves and the central part with a deep vertical hollow : em- 

 bryo sausiige-shfiped, bent along the circumferential chamber of the 

 endocarp. 



Perak, Ulu Bubong; King's collector, Nos. 4417 and 10282. 



This has the flower of Coccultis, but the fruit of Stephania. It 

 comes nearest to the Indian 0. macrocarpus, which has a similar though 

 smaller fruit, and, like that species, would belong to Miers' genus Diplo- 

 clisia. It must be near D. pictinervis of that author. 



11. Pericampylus, Miers. 



A climbing shrub. Leaves subpeltate ; petioles slender, articulate. 

 Flowers in axillary cymes. Sepals 6, with 3 bracts, outer smaller, inner 

 spathulate. Petals 6, cuneate. Male flovjer : stamens 6, filaments cylin- 

 dric; anthers adnate, bursting transversely. Female flower : Staminodes 

 6, clavate. Ovaries 3 ; styles 2.partite, segments subulate. Drupes sub- 

 globose ; endocarp horse-shoe-shaped, dorsally crested and echinate, sides 

 excavated. Seed curved ; cotyledons elongate, flat, scarcely broader than 

 the radicle. 



1. P. INCANUS, Miei'S Contrib. iii. 118, t, 3. Young branches 

 minutely tomentose, not striate. Leaves membranous, orbicular-renifom 

 obtuse or acute, sometimes slightly retuse, mucronulate, the base trun- 

 cate or sub-cordate ; upper surface pubescent or glabrescent, lower to- 

 mentose ; nerves usually 5 ; length of blade 2 to 4 in., breadth about '5 in. 

 or more; petiole 1 to 2 in. Cymes pedunculate, axillary, in fascicles of about 

 4, 2-3-chotomous. Flowers minute, crowded. Petals 6, obovate, larger 

 than the sepals. Ripe drupe the size of a pea. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 

 102; Hf. & Th. Fl. Indica, 194; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. 1, 83. 

 P. aduncus, assam,icus, and memhravaceiis, Miers I. c. 119-122. Coccuhts 

 incanus, Coleb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 57. Cissampelos viauritiana. 

 Wall. Cat. 4980 (not of DC). Menisp. villosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 812 

 (not of Lanik.). 



A common climber. Distrib. British India, Java, Sumatra, and 

 probably in other parts of the Malayan Archipelago. 



12. Stephania, Loureiro. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves usually peltate. Floioers in axillary, 

 cymose umbels. iFale flower ; sepals 6 to 10, free, ovate or obovate. Petals 

 3 to 5, obovate, fleshy. Anthers 6, connate, encircling the top of the 



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