56 Ifateriah for a Flora of tlie Malayan Peninsula . 



sabaoLite appendage. Fruit unknown. D. infet'media, Seort. MSS. (not 

 of Bin me), in Herb. prop. 



Perak; S cor techini 2S^ S4<. P-enang ; Curtis ISOl. 



12. Anplectrum, a. Gray. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves subcoriaceous, or rarely coriaceous, opposite, 

 short-petioled, entire, oblong, narrowed upwards, 3-5-nerved from tlie 

 base. Flowers white, in terminal panicles sometimes leafy at the base. 

 Cahjx-tuhe funnel-shaped or ovoid, limb obscurely 4-lobed or truncate. 

 Petals 4. Stamens 4 perfect, rarely 8, anthers attenuated upwards, 

 opening by one pore, connective at base shortly nppendaged or subnude, 

 never with two long bristles in front, rarely with a longr appendage nnd 

 two small erect bristles ; imperfect stamens 4, 2, or 0. Ovary 4-celled, 

 free at the apex, with 4 vertical ridges ; style simple ; ovules many, 

 placentas axile. Berry ovoid or globose, crowned with the calyx-limb. 

 Seeds very many, small, falcate, obovoid ; raphe long, lateral. Distkid. 

 Species about 18, in Malaya and the Philippines. 



Stamens 4 perfect :— 



Nodes of the young branches and of the lower 



part of the panicle with conspicuous, stellately 



lepidote, bristly annuli ... ... ... 1. A. lepidofo-sefosum. 



Nodes of the young branches and of the panicle 



with a small smooth annulns or faint transverse 



ridge : — 



Calyx-tube funnel-shaped ; stamens 4, all 



perfect; young branches stellafce-hairy ... 2. A* glaueum. 



Calyx-tube ovoid to globular-ovoid ; stamens 



8, the anthers of 4 of them narrow and 



imperfect; young branches glabrous or 



nearly so ... ... ... 3. ^. paltms. 



Nodes not annulare ; stamens 8, the anthers of 4 



of them narrow and imperfect ; young branches 



and panicles densely stellate -scaly ... ... 4. A. divaricatum. 



Stamens 8 perfect ... ... .•• 5. A. anomalum. 



1. Anplectrum lepidoto-setosum. King, n. sp. Young branches 

 slender, conspicuously annulate at the nodes, sparsely clothed Avith 

 coarse, spreading hairs with thickened points, the very youngest also 

 with deciduous, stellate hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 5-nerved ; 

 the base rounded and minutely cordate, the apex shortly caudate-acu- 

 minnte ; both surfaces glabrous except for a few coarse hairs near the 

 petiole ; the lower shining and pale when dry ; length 4-5 to 6 in. ; 

 breadth I'l to 18 in. ; petiole very short, attached to the cup-shaped, 

 densely rufous stellate-tomentose node and like it with scattered 



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