16 Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan Peninsula. 



1. RouREOPSiS PUBiNERVis. Planch, in Linnaea, XXIII, 424. A 

 woody climber, sometimes as long as 50 feet; young branches with pale 

 striate puberulous bark. Leaves 25 to 5 in. long, the rachises pube- 

 scent ; leaflets membranous, 5 to 9, (the terminal one larger than the 

 others), narrowly ovate-elliptic, tapering to each end, the apex abrupt 

 and notched, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous ; the lower 

 paler, puberulous on the midrib and sometimes on the nerves ; main 

 nerves 4 or 5, inter-arching, not much more prominent than the inter- 

 mediate nerves ; length of lateral leaflets '7 to 1'7 in., breadth '5 td 

 •75 in. Racemes slender, shorter than the leaves, solitary or in fascicles 

 of 2 or 3 in the leaf axils, laxly few-flowered. Floioers '35 in. long ; 

 their pedicels of about the same length, each with a minute pubescent per- 

 sistent bracteole at its base. Sepals broadly oblong, obtuse, pilose near 

 the apex, about half as long as the linear-oblong sab-acute glabroua 

 petals. Stamens shorter than the sepals and pistils ; ovaries pubescent. 

 Follicles ovate, '5 or '6 in. long, not curved ; the persistent calyx-lobes 

 free, erect, about one- third as long as the fruit. Hook. fil. Fl; Br. Ind., 

 II, 50. Indeterminata, Wall. Cat. 9050. 



Penang ; Porter ; Curtis, 2332 and 2749. Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay 

 No. 500. Perak ; very common, Scortechini, King's Collector. — Distrib. 

 Java. 



2. RouREOPSis ScORTECHiNii, King n. sp. A slender sarmentose 

 woody shrub, all parts except the inflorescence glabrous, young branches 

 minutely lenticellate Leaves 6 to 10 in. long, the rachis rather 

 slender ; leaflets 7 to 9, sub-opposite, very thinly coriaceous, ovate-Ian- 

 ceolate, tapering from below the middle to the long rather blunt acumi- 

 nate point, the base cuneate ; upper surface shining, the lower rather 

 dull, paler and conspicuously reticulate ; main nerves about 4 pairs, 

 faint, the lower very oblique ; length 2*25 to 3 in., breadth 1 to 1*25 in., 

 petiolules about '1 in., stout ; the lowest leaflets the smallest. Racemes 

 slender, axillary, 1 to 2 in. long, laxly-flowered, minutely and sparsely 

 rusty-pubescent. Flowers about "25 in. long, on slender pedicels about 

 •2 in. long, each pedicel with a minute rusty-tomentose bracteole at its 

 base. Calyx-lohes ovate, obtuse, ciliolate, hairy inside, glabrous outside. 

 Petals longer than the calyx, lanceolate, plicate in bud, yellowish. 

 Filaments slightly coherent at the base, glabrous. Pistils 5, only 1 or 

 2 fertile. Fruit narrowly ovoid, not curved, pointed, coriaceous, glab- 

 rous, I in. long. 



Perak ; Scortechini, No. 613. Curtis (elevation 5,000 feet), No. 1998. 



Scortechini's specimens have flowers in bud only, and none of them is in fruit. 

 The foregoing description, as respects the flower, is copied from his field note. The 

 fruit is described from what I take to be the same plant collected by Curtis in 

 Perak at an elevation of 5,000 feet and described by him as a small tree. 

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