496 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Kendrickia* 



A very ornamental ivy-like climber, the lower steins adhering 

 by rootlets, the branches free and pendent, the leaves various 

 in shape. 



3. Medinilla, Gaud. 



Erect or scandent, often epiphytic, branching shrubs. Leaves 

 opposite or whorled, entire, often fleshy, ribbed from the base of 

 the blade. Floivers pink or white, in terminal panicles or axillary 

 or lateral cymes, 4-5- rarely 6-merous, sometimes solitary; bracts 

 sometimes coloured, usually deciduous. Calyx-tube usually ovoid 

 or cylindric, the limb entire or obscurely toothed. Petals usually 

 4 or 5, ovate oblong or obovate, acute, somewhat fleshy. Stamens 

 twice as many as the petals, equal; anthers opening by a terminal 

 pore ; connective with 2 tubercles in front at the base and a spur 

 behind. Ovary inferior, 4-6-celled, with many ovules on axile 

 placentas ; style filiform. Fruit a berry, crowned by the limb of 

 the calyx. Seeds numerous, ovoid or subfalcate, the raphe often 

 thickened. 



Leaves 3-5-ribbed, elliptic lanceolate, 3-3*5 in. long, 1*5 in. broad, 

 usually acute at both ends, thinly fleshy ; flowers axillary, fascicled, 

 peduncles 1-3-flowered; stamens with very short anthers, the tubercles 



and spur very small 1. malabarica. 



Leaves 3-ribbed, the outer ribs obscure and close to the margin, 

 orbicular, 1*5 in. in diam., very fleshy ; flowers axillary on solitary 

 peduncles ; stamens with long, curved, acuminate anthers, the tubercles 

 and spur prominent 2. Beddomei. 



1. MEDINILLA MALABARICA, Bedd. Ic. t. 157 ; F. B. I. ii. 548. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiris and * Anamalais, at 3,000- 

 7,000 ft. (Beddome). 



An epiphytic subscandent shrub, the flowers and their 

 peduncles, the petioles and the bases of the leaves all of 

 a brilliant crimson colour. 



2. MEDINILLA BEDDOMEI, C. B. Clarke in F. B. I. ii. 548. 

 M. radicans, Bedd. Ic. t. 184, not of Blume. Triplectrum 

 radicans, W. & A, 324. 



W. Grhats, from Coorg to Wynaad and perhaps further 



south, at 2,000-3,500 ft. 



An epiphytic fleshy shrub, rooting from the joints of the 



stems. 



