396 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



the reticulations distinct; lens^Mi 5*5 to 7"5 in., breadth 1'75 to 2*25 in. ; 

 petiole under '5 in., slender. Flowers unknown. Fruit cylindric, taper- 

 ing' to each end, the apex shortly beaked; when ripe orange-coloured, 

 3 in. long, and 1"5 in. in diam. ; gynophore neai-ly "75 in., pedicel l"25 in., 

 slendei'. Seeils ovoid, smootli, '4 in. long. 



Ulu Bubong, Perak ; King's Collector, Nos. 10027 and 10795. 



A creeper, 20 to 3u feet long ; allied to G. Finlaysoniana, Wall, by 

 its curious cucumber-like fruit, but with different leaves. Flowers 

 have not as yet been collected. 



8. Capparis Kdnstlerf, King, n. sp. Scandent, the branches glab- 

 i*escent ; thorns stipular, in pairs, hardly "1 in long. Xeares membranous, 

 oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, the base narrowed, both sui'faces 

 glabrous, midrib and 7 pairs of sub- horizontal curving nerves prominent 

 below ; length of blade 45 to 5o in., breadth 1*5 to 225 in., petiole '5 in. 

 Fmit axillary, solitary, globose, 1*5 to 2 in. in diam., deep yellow; gyno- 

 phore about 2 in. long, stout ; pedicel rather shoi'ter. 



Gunong Bubu, in Perak, at an elevation of 800 feet, King's Collec- 

 tor, No. 8887. 



A creeper, 40 to 60 feet long. Only fruiting specimens have been 

 collected. 



4 RoYDBiA, Roxb. 



Large unarmed woody climbers, bianches spotted white. Leaves 

 simple. Floioers yellow, racemed .or panicled. Calyx 6-pfirtite, segments 

 2-seriate, tips a little imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens indefinite, inserted 

 above the base of tlie short cylindric gynophoi-e. Ovary ovoid, 3-celled 

 from the piolongation of the placentas ; styles 3, subulate, or single and 

 undivided ; stigmas small, tei-mitial ; ovules many, 2-seriate in the angles 

 of the cells. Fruit flesliy, with a woody 3-valved, 1-celled endocarp, 

 ] -seeded. Seed erect, cotyiedcms fleshy, unequal, longtitndinally folded, 

 the larger embracing the smaller. — Disti ib. Species 3, tropical Asiatic. 



1. R. PARViFLORA, Griff. Notul. iv. 578; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 607, f. I. 

 A semi-scandent shrub, 4 to 8 feet high, glabrous, except the puberulous 

 infloiescence and tomentose sepals. Leaves membranous, oblanceolate 

 to obovate-elliptic or sub-rotund, with an abrupt short blunt acumen; 

 both surfaces shining, the midrib bold ; primary nerves 5 or 6 pairs, 

 prominent on the under surface as are the intermediate nerves and 

 reticulations ; length 35 to 4 in., breadth 1-5 to 225 in. ; petiole 

 •5 to "6 in , sliirhtly thickened in the upper half. Flotvers in long naked 

 racemes arranged in a terminal leafless panicle much longer than the 

 leaves, shortly pedicellate, '2 in. in diam. Sepals 6, valvate, linear- 

 oblonf, sub-acute, densely tomentose on both surfaces, reflexed. Stamens 



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