50 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



midrib and nerves ; the lower with numerous minute adpressed scales ; 

 main 6 or 7 pairs spreading, curved; length 25 to 525 in., breadth 

 1 to 175 in., petiole "1 to '2in. Flowers about :5 in. in diam., on short, 

 ru3ty-tomentose pedicels '15 in. long. Calyx campanulate, leathery, 

 adpressed- villose outside like the pedicels, the lobes much longer than 

 the tube, unequal, oblong, subacute. Petals oblanceolate, smaller than 

 the calyx-lobes. Corona single, very short, lanate, in 5 phalanges. 

 Stamens 5. Gynophore shorter than the corona; ovary villose. Fruit 

 ovoid or sub-globose, '5 to '7 in. across. Masters in Fl. Br. Ind., II, 600. 

 P. malayana, Planch, ex Masters I.e. Trichodia vareciformis, Griff. 



Notul., IV, 571. 



Malacca.: Griffith, Manigay, and others. Perak : Scortechini, 



King's Collector; a common plant. 



I can find no constant characters to separate the two species into which this 

 plant has been divided in the Flora of British India and therefore unite them under 

 the oldest specific name. 



2. Passiflora, Linn. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves simple or palmilobed, usually with glands 

 on the under surface and on the petiole ; stipules thread-like or leafy. 

 Flowers pedunculate; often i n vol aerate ; peduncles simple or cvmose. 

 Bracteoles 3, small, scattered. Calyx- tube fleshy, limb 5-lobed. Petals 

 5, springing from the throat of the calyx. Corona of one or more rows 

 of fine threads springing from the throat of the calyx-tube and of one 

 or more membranous folds arising lower down. Gynophore surrounded 

 at the base by a shallow membranous cup or basilar corona ; filaments 

 5, flat; anthers oblong, 2-celled, dorsi fixed; pollen-grains reticulate on 

 the surface. Ovary 1-celled ; styles 3, stigmas reniform-capitate. Fruit 

 baccate. Seeds arillate. — Distbib. A genus of about 250 species which 

 are most numerous in tropical and sub-tropical America. 



Passiflora Horsfield[, Blume, Rumphia, I, 170, t. 52. A slender 

 climber; young branches slightly quadrangular, slender, striate, al- 

 most glabrous. Leaves membranous, oval or oblong-ovate, subacute 

 sometimes retuse, the base rounded and minutely emarginate ; upper 

 surface pale-brown when dry, shining, glabrous, minutely reticulate ; 

 lower surface when young sometimes with sparse deciduous hairs, but 

 more usually glabrous from the first, always dull and whitish and with 

 a few flat dark-coloured glands, the transverse veins and reticulations 

 very distinct; main-nerves about 5 pairs, ascending, faint; length 4 to 

 6 in. ; breadth 25 to 3'25 in. ; petiole - 6 to - 9 in., with two oval flat glands 

 near its middle. Inflorescence shorter than the leaves, axillary, about 

 5-flowered, the flowers 125 to 1'5 in. in diam., on slender long pedicels, 

 white tinged with green; corona double, the outer with long erect 



