14 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



6. RoUREA RUGOSA, Planch. in Linnaea XXIII, 422. A stout woody 

 climber; young branches densely cinereous-tomentose. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, 12 to 15 in. long, the rachises tomentose ; leaflets 8 to 15 

 pairs, sub-sessile, sub-opposite, narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 shortly and bluntly acuminate, rarely acute, the bases rounded or 

 minutely cordate ; upper surface glabrous, smoooth ; the lower reticulate, 

 sparsely pubescent, tbe midrib tomentose ; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, 

 spreading, interarcliing very freely, prominent ; length 2 to 3*25 in., 

 breadth "6 to 1'25 in. Panicles shorter than the leaves, crowded in the 

 leaf -axils, pubescent, many-flowered. Flowers about '2 in. long, their 

 pedicels shorter. Sepals rotund, pubescent, half as long as the petals. 

 Follicle about '75 in. long, pointed, glabrous, striate. Seed ovoid, api- 

 culate, about '5 in. long. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 46. Gonnarus-rugosuSi 

 Wall. Cat. 8527. 



Singapore ; Wallich. Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay. Penang ; 

 Porter, Curtis. Perak ; King's Collector, Wray. 



7. RouREA PARALLELA, Plaiich. in Linnaea XXIII, 421. A power- 

 ful woody climber often 150 feet long; young branches cinereous- 

 pubescent. Leaves 2 to 6 in. long, their rachises with crisped pubescence ; 

 leaflets coriaceous, sessile, 10 to 22 pairs, opposite or sub-opposite, oblong, 

 the apex broad, shortly bifid ; the base minutely cordate, slightly oblique ; 

 upper surface- glabrous, shining ; the lower with very minute pale dots, 

 sparsely pubescent especially on the midrib ; main nerves about 6 pairs, 

 faint ; length "5 to *75 in., breadth '25 to '3 in. Racemes in axillary 

 clusters, shorter than the leaves; the rachises slender, tomentose. 

 Flowers not crowded, '3 in. in diam. and '2 in. long, the pedicels slightly 

 shorter. Sepals puberulous, half as long as the petals, broadly ob- 

 lanceolate, sub-glabrous. Follicles when ripe bright red with yellow 

 tips, glabrous, '6 to *7 in. long, pointed. Seed elliptic, keeled on one 

 side, '3 in. long. Under G. similis, Bl. in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 50. 

 Gonnarus mimusoides, Vahl. ? Wall. Cat. 8526 C. 



Penang; Porter; Curtis, No. 473. Malacca; Maingay, No. 498. 

 Perak; King's Collector, Nos. 2580, 4302, 8405, ioil9, 10592, 

 10896; Scortechini. Singapore; Anderson, Ridley. Kedah, Curtis, 

 No. 2629. 



Blume's species B. similis (ilus. Lupjd. Bat. I, 264 (September, 1850), is stated 

 by its author to be very near to this, and indeed Sir Joseph Hooker (Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 50) has taken Bhime's name in preference to Planchon's. B. so^-oria. Planch, from 

 Borneo must, from the description, be also very near this. 



Var. major. Flowers '3 in. long and *35 in. in diam, in lax panicles ; 

 leaflets nearly 1 in. long. 



Perak ; King's Collector, No. 5516. 

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