50 xcv. ASCLEPIADE&. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dischidia. 



often recurved margins, nerves 2-3 pairs horizontal reticulating. Seeds ^ in. long, 

 slender. 



2. X>. hirsuta, Dene, in DC. Prod?', viii. 632; papillose and more or less 

 pubescent, leaves -1 in. sessile broadly ovate acute lacunose above between 

 the horizontal nerves, corolla red, throat with 2 rows of hairs. D. fasciculata, 

 Dene. I. c. D. Bruuoniana, Griff. Notul. iv. 44, and Ic. Pl.Asiat. t. 410, A. f. 1. 

 Leptostemma hirsutuni and fasciculatum, Blume Bijd. 1058. 



TENASSERIM, Heifer; at Mergui, Griffith. SINGAPORE, Hb. Wight. MALACCA, 

 Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1120). DISTRIB. Java. 



Stem very slender and leaves on both surfaces papillose and sometimes sparsely 

 hairy. Leaves pale when dry, the 2 or 3 pairs of nerves very prominent above. 

 Corolla TJ in, long " blood red, with a row of ascending shining hairs in the middle 

 of the tube, and a similar row on the throat inserted below a row of 5 aduate fleshy 

 convex scales. Pollen-masses linear, connate at the base." Maingay. 



3. D. albida, Griff. NotuL iv. 46 ; glabrous, leaves petioled ovate or 

 rounded-ovate or ovate-cordate acute or acuminate nerveless. 



MALACCA ; at Toondook. Griffith. 



Stems very slender, creeping and rooting. Leaves fleshy ; petiole |- in. " Peduncles 

 subaxillary equalling the petiole, perennial. Flowers umbelled, few, small, white. 

 Corona-throat closed with white hairs. Pollen-masses oblong, scarcely compressed, 

 as long as their caudicles. Follicles very long-beaked, deeply channelled on the 

 inner face." Griffith. 



4. D. khasiana, Hook. f. ; glabrous or very sparsely hairy, leaves |-f 

 in. petioled orbicular tip .rounded, nerves very slender, follicles 2^ in. slender 

 throughout straight or curved. Dischidia, n. 9, Herb. H. f. $ T. 



KHASIA MTS. at Churra and Nunklow, alt. 3-4000 ft. J. D. H. $ T. T. 

 Stem very slender, creeping, papillose. Leaves quite orbicular, tip rounded or 

 ipiculate, nerves 2-3 pairs horizontal; petiole -| % in. Follicles about in. diam. 

 below the middle, gradually tapering to the obtuse tip and to the base, pale. This 

 resembles D. formosana, Maxim., but the leaves are much larger ; the habit and 

 foliage are precisely those of Hoya Nummularia. 



5. D. beng-halensis, Coleb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 357, t. 15 ; gla- 

 brous, branches flagelliform pendulous, leaves linear elliptic obovate oblong or 

 .anceolate midrib and nerves obscure or 0, flowers fascicled subsessile. Wight 

 Contrib. 43; Wall. Cat. 4205; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 631; Bot. Mag. t. 

 .'DIG. D. cuneifolia, Wall. Cat. 4206; Dene. I.e. D. spathulata, Blume Bijd. 

 1069; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 513. 



EASTERN NEPAL and SIKKIM, J. D. H. ASSAM and southwards to MALACCA. 

 DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 



Stems often matted, pale green, as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves in distant pairs, 

 subsessile, 1-2 by ^-f in. obtuse acute or apiculate, very fleshy. Flowers minute. 

 Corolla in. long, yellowish, tube globose, throat glabrous. Follicles l^-2 in. slender, 

 straight, acuminate, pericarp thin. 



6. D. Raffle siana, Wall. Plant. As. Rar. ii. 35, t. 142, and Cat. 4208; 

 glabrous, climbing and pendulous, leaves orbicular 1 in. diam. subsessile chang- 

 ing into oblong pitchers 2-5 in. long, flowers umbellate on a long or short stout 

 peduncle, sepals pubescent, corolla ovoid, teetli minute pubescent within, throat 

 glabrous. Griff. Notul. iv. 47, t. 386, f. 6, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 387 



ind 396, t. 17, 18 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 632. Collyris major, Vahl. ; 

 Wight Contrib. 66. 



CACHAR, J. D. H. $ T. T.; and from TENASSERIM, Griffith, to MALACCA. DISTRIB. 

 Borneo, Australia. 



