12 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



faint ; length of the simple leaves and of the terminal leaflet of the 

 ternate leaves 325 to 4*5 in., breadth 1*6 to 2*2 in. ; petiolules about "2 

 in., those of the lateral leaflets shorter. Racemes slender, shorter thau 

 the leaves, in fascicles in the leaf-axils, laxly-flowered. Flowers *35 in, 

 long, on slender pedicels of about the same length. Segments of calyx 

 ovate-orbicular, sub-oblique, puberulous outside, their edges ciliate, only 

 about one-third of the length of the linear-oblong glabrous petals. 

 Stamens much shorter than the petals and than the glabrous pistils, 

 Follicles obliqaely ovoid, sub'Compressed, blunt, yellowish with a red 

 tinge when ripe, 1 in. long. Seed with a soft red arillus. 



Penang ; Curtis No. 504. Perak ; King's Collector Nos. 804, 953, 

 3066, 3866, 4527, 4622, 6755, 8312, 10542, 10863. Wray, No. 3799 ; 

 Scortechini. 



This resembles R. simplicifoUa Bl. in having both simple and compound leaves; 

 but that is a smaller plant with puberulous inflorescence, and different follicles. 



2. RouREA ACUMINATA, Hook. fil. Fl. Br, Ind. II, 48, A powerful 

 woody perfectly glabrous creeper often over 100 feet long ; young branch- 

 es glabrous, often minutely lenticellate. Leaves 3 to 9 in. long, the 

 rachis slender; leaflets 5 to 11, thinly coriaceous, oblong, lanceolate 

 or elliptic-oblong, sometimes somewhat obovate, abruptly shortly and 

 bluntly caudate-acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded base or 

 with broad minutely cordate base ; upper sui-face shining, the lower dull 

 and glaucous, both minutely reticulate when dry ; main nerves about 

 5 pairs, very faint, spreading; length 1*5 to 225 in., breadth '65 to '9 

 in. ; petiolules under '1 in., the terminal one slightly larger. Racemes 

 very slender, lax, several from an axil. Flowers 'S in. long, on slender 

 pedicels of about the same length. Sej.mls ovate-rotund, about half as 

 long as the narrowly oblong glabrous sepals, glabrous, the edges minutely 

 ciliolate. Stamens shorter than the petals and glabrous pistils. Follicle 

 narrowly ovate, curved, pointed, '75 in. long, when ripe red tipped with 

 yellow. Cnestis acuminata^ Wall. Cat, 8533. 



Singapore ; Wallich, Perak ; King's Collector Nos. 866, 4271, 6987, 

 7781, 10599, ]0871. 



3. RouREA COMMUTATA, Plancli. in Linnaea, XXIII, 420. Shrubby, 

 Boandent; young branches puberulous becoming glabrous, sometimes 

 minutely lenticellate. Leaves 8 to 12 in. long, glabrous; leaflets 3 to 7, 

 thinly coriaceous, sub-opposite, qlliptic-lanceolate to elliptic, sub-obtuse- 

 ly caudate-acuminate, the base rounded, both surfaces shining ; main 

 nerves 2 to 5 pairs, curved, rather abruptly ascending ; length 25 to 6 

 in., breadth 1'35 to 2'25 in. ; petiolules '15 to '2 in., the terminal one 

 larger. Flowers "35 in. in diam., in glabrous racemes or racemoid pani- 

 cles much shorter thau the leaves and clustered in their axils, pedicels 



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