394 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



In hot dry places at low elevations, but not common in tlie Straits 

 Settlements. Distrib. India, Ceylon, Philippines, Timor, Australia. 



3. C. ScoRTECHiNii, King, n. sp. Scandent; young parts, and the 

 inflorescence at all stages, densely and minutely ferrugiiious-tomentose ; 

 older branches with 1 or 2 striae, glabrescent ; thorns stipular, in pairs, 

 much shorter than the petioles, hooked. Leaves coriaceous, broadly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, much narrowed at tlie base, smooth and sinning 

 above and the nerves obsolete; under surface ferruginous-tomentose 

 when young, but becoming glabrescent, the midrib and 6 pairs of nerves 

 bold and prominent; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., petiole "5 in. 

 Flowers I'o in. in diam., on short lateral, leafly, bracteate, woody racemes. 

 Bracts petiolate, ovate-acuminate, "75 in. long, deciduous. Sepals rotund, 

 concave, tomentose externally. Pe/aZs pink, broadly elliptic, sub-obovate, 

 blunt, notched, the base cuneate, glabrous. Stamens more than 20. 

 Fruit globose, 3'5 to 4 in. in diam. ; the gjnophore transversely wrinkled, 

 2'5 in. long and '6 in. in diam. 



Batang Padang district in Perak. King's Collector No. 8083, 

 Scortechini, 191. 



The fruit of this has been only once collected. The species is a 

 fine creeper Jo to 20 feet long. It closely resembles G. trinervia, Hf. 

 Th. in many respects ; but the leaves are not ti'iple-but pinnate-nerved. 



4. C. MiCRACANTHA, DC. Prod. i. 247. Shrubby, not scandent, glab- 

 rous. Branches minutely striate ; the spines in pairs, stipular, one-third 

 the length of the petioles, divergent, polished, not hooked. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, shining, minutely reticulate, broadly lanceolate to oval, 

 acute, mucronate ; the base nanowed or rounded ; midrib stout, nerves 

 7 to 8 pairs; length 3 to 4 in., breadth 1'5 in., petiole '3 in. Fknoers 

 on short pedicels, 2 or 3 in a line, supra-axillary, 1 to 15 in. in diam. 

 kSepuls and petals oblong; the former puberulous, the latter white. 

 Stamens 15 to 20, shorter than the gjnophore. Fruit sub-globose, 

 smooth. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 179; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, i. pt. 2, 99; 

 Blume Bijdr. 52. G. conspicua and C. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6991 

 and 6992 A (not B). 



Generally diffused at low elevations throughout the Malayan 

 region. Distrib. Burmah. Sir Joseph Hooker gives the size of the ripe 

 fruit (which 1 have not seen) as 2 to 3 in. in diam. 



5. C. PUBiFLORA, DC. Piod. i. 246 ; vai\ Pernkemis, Scortechini, MSS. 

 A straggling shrub 15 feet long, branciied from the ground. Bi-anchlets 

 compressed, striate, glabrous; thorns in pairs, minute. Leaves membra- 

 nous, elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, the base narrowed or rounded, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, nerves (9 to 10 pairs) and reticulations rather 

 prominent; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 2 to 25 in.; petiole '25 in., stout, 



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