lodes. \ xxxix. OLACINE^E. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 597 



above, over the whole surface beneath. Cymes opposite the leaves, pedicels short, 

 slender. Flowers minute, tomentose. Only known frjni Kurz's description. 



5. I. oblong-a, Planch, in herb. Kew. ; leaves oblanceolate, base tapering 

 subcordate. 



PENANG? Wallick. 



Shrubby, scandent? Branches cylindric, grey, setose, ultimately glabrescent, with 

 prominent scars. Leaves 5 by 1^ in., membranous, glabrous above, setose along the 

 midrib above, and over the whole lower surface ; petiole | in. Inflorescence inter- 

 axillary, peduncles 1 in., cymose, dichotomously branched. Flowers very minute. 

 Ovary oblong, 1-celled ; stigma sessile, thick, discoid, 5-lobed; ovules 2, pendulous. 

 I have not seen perfect flowers, but the structure of the ovary is that of lodes. 



GENUS OF DOUBTFUL AFFINITY. 



23. CARDIOFTERIS, Wall. 



A climbing herb with milky juice. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, simple 

 or lobed, cordate, palminerved. Flowers ebracteate, in axillary racemose or 

 panicled cymes, bisexual, dichlamydeous. Calyx 4-5-parted ; lobes imbricate, 

 persistent, but not, or only slightly accrescent. Corolla deciduous, between 

 rotate and funnel-shaped, 4-5-lobed. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the base of 

 the tube of the corolla, alternate with its lobes, filaments short glabrous ; 

 anthers 2-celled, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally ; pollen-grains 4-angular. 

 Ovary free, surrounded at the base by a thick fleshy annular disk, 

 oblong, compressed, 1-celled ; ovules 1 (rarely 2) pendulous, naked, micro- 

 pyle ultimately superior ; style 2-branched, one branch deciduous, curved, 

 capitate at the apex, the other accrescent, ultimately deciduous, divided at 

 the apex into 2 unequal, ovate, rather obtuse divisions. Fruit ovate-orbicu- 

 lar, emarginate or obcordate, compressed, very broadly winged, 1-celled, 

 indehiscent. Seed solitary, linear, furrowed ; embryo minute, in hard fleshy 

 albumen. The following is the only species. 



1. C. lobata, R. Br. in Wall. Cat. 8033 A, and in JBenn. PI. Jav. Ear. 

 246, t. 49. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 799. C. moluccana, Blume Rumph. 

 iv. 207, t. 177, f. 2, partly. C. javanica Blume Rumph. iii. 206, iv. t. 177. 

 C. Rumphii, Baill. in Adansonia x. 280, and in DC. Prodr. xvii. 26. Perip- 

 terygium quinquelobum, Hassk. Cat. PI. Hort. Bogor. 351. 



WESTERN BENGAL, in Silhet and Cachar. KANGOON, Ava, and TENASSERIM. 

 DISTRIB. Yunan, Indian Archipelago, Siam, New Guinea. 



Stem terete, striate. Leaves 3-5 in. by 3-4^ in., glabrous, membranous, polymor- 

 phous, usually more or less angular and slightly lobed, base 7-9 nerved, cordate, lobes 

 acute or acuminate, widely divergent ; petiole 3-5 in. P<-<lin:l<-* 2i 4 in., solitary, 

 axillary, dichotomous ; pedicels puberulous, erect, ultimately spreading or recurved. 

 Flowers rather crowded, secund, ebracteate. Calyx puberulou-.. slightly ex- 



ceeding the calyx, whitish, decicfuousT fruit 1-1 4 in. by 1.} in. The; plant varies 

 much in the consistence and form of the leaves, occasionally even on the same specimen, 

 hence, by some writers, several species have been proposed. Baillon, however, ranks 

 them all as varieties. The following occur within the limits of this Flora. 



VAK. 1. moluccana, leaves rather thick subcordate or hastato-subcordate not lobed, 

 nerves subpedate more or less conspicuous sometimes reddish, inflorescence cymose- 

 racemose. 0. moluccana, Blume Humph, iii. 207, t. 177, f. 2 ; Boyle 111. 136 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 799. C. Eumphii, var. a integrifolia, Baill. in DC. Prodr. 

 xvii. 26; Humph. Anib. v. 482, t. 180. Dioscorea sativa, L. Amcen. Acad. iv. 133. 



VAK. 2. subhamata, Baill. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 26 ; leaves cordate pedately 7-nerved 



