Mahrials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 395 



cViannelled. Flowers 1 in. in cliam. on long slender pedicels, 2 or 3 in 

 a line, supra-axillary. Sppuls oblong, concave, the two inner recurved, 

 tlie two outer pubescent externally. Petals white, oblong, the two 

 pasterior united at the base by a gland so ns to form a short spur. 

 Staviens numerous. Qynophore about 1 in. long, pubescent as is the 

 ovary. 



Perak, Scortechini. 



Collected only once, and without fruit. In Father Scortechini's 

 field notes, he remarks that the petals are pubescent above and round 

 the margin of the gland, and have a purple blotch. 



A straggling but non-scandent shrub, almost unarmed, the thorns 

 being very smnll. This variety differs from the type as described by 

 De Candolle, and by Decaisne from Timor (Nouv. Ann. du Museum, ii, 

 436) in having the venation of its leaves more straight and erect ; 

 otherwise it agrees. 



6. C. FiNf-ATSONiANA, Wall., Hook. fll. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 379. Scandent, 

 glabrous ; the spines .stipulai', nearly straight, in pairs, very short, with 

 broad bnses iind blackish rather blunt tips. Leaves coriaceous, shortly 

 petiolate, broadly lanceolate to elliptic, .shortly acuminate, slightly 

 narrowed to the base ; the under surface pale (yellow when dry) the 

 midrib and 6 pairs of nerves very bold; reticulations minute, distinct 

 on the upper surface; length 6 to 75 in., breadth 2*25 to 3 in., petiole 

 under 'o in. Floioers (fiih Hook, fil.) solitary or in pairs, supra-axillary, 

 larger than in C. micrautha. 8e}>als lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Bipe 

 jrnit solitary, on a long stout stalk of wliicli I'o in. is pedicel and the 

 remaining 1*5 in. carpophore, cylindric, tapering to the apex, 4 to 7 in. 

 long, and 1 to lo in. ia diam., yellowish-red, glabrous. Seeds ovoid, 

 smooth, "4 in. long. 



Singapore, "Wallich : Ulu Bubong in Perak. 



Sir Joseph Hooker, who describes this species in the Flora of Brit. 

 India from Wallich 's Singapore specimens (which are accompanied by 

 no field notes), is in doubt whether this is erect or scandent. Kunstler's 

 field notes on the Peiak specimens show it to be a creeper 20 to 30 feet 

 long. It does not appear to be a comraou plant. 



Species of which the flowers are nnhioum. 



7. C. CUCURBITINA, King, n. sp. Scandent ; branchlets finely 

 striate, nearly glabrous ; the thorns stipular, in pairs, hooked, very 

 sharp, much shorter than the petiole. Leaves glabrous, shining, more 

 or less broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, shoi'tly acuminate, the 

 base narrowed or rounded ; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, anastomosing in 

 bold iutramargiual arches, the secondary nerves bold as is the midrib, 



39 



