Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 5 



sericeous internally. Seed with a short basal arillus. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. II, 52 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, II, 326. Connarus fiorihunduB, 

 Wall. Cat. 8543 (in part), 8541, B. 



In all the provinces except the Nicobars and Andamans. — Distrib. 

 Sumatra. 



This species is easily distinguished when in fruit by the small size of its 

 follicles. But, while in flower, it is not easy to separate it from C. gibhosus, Wall. ; 

 the only distinctions that I can find being that, in the latter, the follicles are larger 

 than in this, and that the leaflets are quite glabrous on both surfaces. 



4. Connarus oligophyllus, Wall, ex Planch, in Linneea, XXIII, 

 427. Scandent, glabious except the inflorescence. Leaves 6 to 8 in. 

 long ; leaflets 3 to 5, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 

 sub-acute or shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded • 

 upper surface shining ; the lower paler, dull ; main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, 

 ascending (especially the lower 2 pairs), curved, slightly prominent on 

 the lower surface, very faint on the upper ; length 2'25 to 4 in., breadth 

 1 to 2 in., petiolules '25 to "3 in. Panicles terminal and lono-er than the 

 leaves or lateral and shorter, sub-pyramidal, much branched, minutely 

 rusty- pubescent, many-flowered. Floivers '35 in. long, sub-sessile or on 

 short pedicels. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, much shorter than the 

 oblong obtuse puberulous petals ; perfect ovary 1, flask-shnped, puberu- 

 lous. Follicle nearly straight, not comprecsetl, cylindric, tapering to 

 each end, glabrous and vertically striate (vrhen dry) outside, the peri- 

 carp coriaceous, minutely sericeous internally, TS to 2 in. lono- and 

 *75 in. in diam. at the middle. Seed shining, black. Hook. fil. FI. Br. 

 Ind. II, 63. Connaracea, Wall. Cat. 8542 (in jjart) and 8539 D. [in 

 part) . 



Penang; Porter. Perak ; Wray, IS"©. 1942. King's Collector, Nos. 

 6232, 5613, 7804, 8335, 8432. Scortechini, No. 1057. Singapore;' 

 Ridley, No. 5904. Malacca ; Maingay, Nos. 506, 508/2, 513. 



5. Connarus hebephyllus, n. spec. King. A powerful climber • 

 young branches deciduously rusty-pubescent ; the bark pale, sparsely 

 lenticellate. Leaves 6 to 12 in. long, their rachises glabrous ; ]e;iflets 

 coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the base rounded or slio-Iitly 

 cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous, dull, the lower pale and faintly reti- 

 culate ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, spreading, curving upwards ; length 

 2 to 4 in., breadth '76 to 1 35 in. ; petiolules about 2 in., rugulose, 

 glabrous, pale. Panicles terminal and axillary, shorter than the leaves 

 in flower, as long as or longer than them in fruit ; the branches short 

 densely rusty-tomentose. Flower-buds obovate, on short pedicels' 

 Calyx densely rusty-tomentose outside. Petals glabrous. Stamens 5 

 long and 5 minute. Follicles when young rusty-tomentose, when ripe 



5 



