90 



Leaves longer than broad, their bases not 

 cordate or only minutely so. 



Staminal tube with entire mouth 

 Stamina! tube with its mouth 5-lobed. 

 Leaves quite glabrous. 



Capsule less than 1 in. in diam., 

 covered with glandular bar- 

 bed spines 

 Capsule moi'e than 1 in. in 

 diam., covered with short 

 subulate spines ... 

 Leaves more or less minutely hispid 

 on both surfaces 

 „ hispid on the upper, hisjiid- 



tomentose on the lower, 

 surface 

 Leaves about as broad as long, deeply cordate 

 at the base. 



Leaves glabrous, or glabrescent, not 

 lobed 

 „ sparsely pubescent, often 

 lobed 



1. B. Curtisii. 



2. B. uncinafa. 



3. B. Mauigayi. 

 4i. B. elliptica. 



6. B. Jackiana. 



6. B. aspera. 



7, B. Andamanensis. 



1. B. Curtisii, Oliver in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1761. A slender woody 

 creeper, 10 to lo feet long: young branches minutely puberulous. 

 Leaves lineai'-lanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, rarely ovate-oblong, 

 acuminate, entire, narrowed to the sub-obtuse, minutely cordate, 5- 

 nerved base : lateral nerves numerous, unequal and spreading at various 

 angles, reticulations distinct : both surfaces glabrous, the lower with 

 tufts of stellate hairs in the axils of the leaves ; length 2'5 to 7 in., 

 breadth "5 to 2 in. ; petiole '25 in., pubescent. Cymes in axillary fascicles 

 of 2 to 4, slender, 3 to 7-flowered, puberulous ; peduncles about 1 in. 

 long : flowerpedicels "2.5 in. Flowers '^S in. in diam., buds conical. Calyx 

 deeply 5-partite, the segments ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Petals strap- 

 shaped with 2 rather broad inflexed lateral lobes, and a long cylindric 

 curved sub-tei'minal appendage, about as long as the sepals. Capsule 

 globular, about 1 in. in diam., veined, pubescent, and armed with 

 numerous straight smooth bristles. 



Penang, Curtis, Nos. 817 and 1166; Perak, common at low eleva- 

 tions. 



This is closely allied to the Bornean B. lancifolia, Hook. fil. The 

 leaves vary a good deal iu shape, the most prevalent form in the Perak 



