1002.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 55 



diam. Seeds broadly oblong, compressed, fovcolato with a row of short 

 radiating grooves round the edges. Modecca popuUfolia, Blame Rum- 

 phia, 168 t. 50. M. popuUfolia, Bl. : Masters in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. lnd. 

 II, 603 (amongst imperfectly knmun species). 



Malacca; Maingay (K.D.) 668. Perak; Scortechini 1609; King's 

 Collector, many Nos. 



Blume describes and figures his Modecca populifolia plant as tetramerous and 

 as this exactly agrees both with his text and figure, except in being peutamerous, 



1 regard it as a variety. There are in Herb. Calcutta specimens from Perak without 

 flower or fruit, of what appears to be a 3-lobed form of this. 



5. Adenia acuminata, King. Stems slender, striate. Leaves sub- 

 coinaceous, ovate-oblong or rotund-ovate, the base usually narrowed 

 but sometimes snb-cordate always bi-glandular ; the apex shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate ; the secondary nerves and reticulations distinct 

 on both surfaces when dry but especially on the lower; main-nerves 



2 or sometimes 3 pairs, originating from the midrib near its base, all 

 prominent: length 4 to 6 in. ; breadth 2 to 4 in. ; petiole '75 to 1'35 in. 

 long. Peduncles usually nearly as long as the leaves but sometimes 

 much shorter, bearing a few short many-flowered spreading brandies 

 at the apex and often a short tendril. Male flower narrowly ovoid, "25 

 to '3 in. long. Calyx leathery with 5 short ovate-lanceolate lobes. 

 Petals thick, oblong, acute, springing from the calyx-tube above tlie 

 middle. Glands small, lanceolate. Anthers linear, sub-acute, erect, the 

 filaments short. Female flower larger than the males ('4 in. long), 

 tubular, swollen in the lower third. Calyx-lobes very short, broad, blunt, 

 incurved. Petals n&rvowly oblong, sub-acute, incurved. Ovary fusiform. 

 Fruit fusiform, dull, reddish when dry, about 2 in. long and "75 in. 

 J n diam. at the middle. Seeds compressed, subrotund, boldly pitted 

 in the centre and with a marginal row of radiating grooves on each 

 side, slightly oblique and pointed at the base. Modecca acuminata, 

 Blume Bijdr. 940 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1,702. M. singaporeana, 

 Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 601 {in part). 



Perak ; Scortechini 254, 459, 629 ; Wray 498, 1745 ; Ridley 9462, 

 9632; King's Collector, many numbers. Selangor; Ridley 7288. 

 Malacca; Goodrich 1340. — Distrib. ; Java, Sumatra, (Beccari P.S. 743). 



6. Adenia singaporeana, Engl, in Jahrb. XIV, 376. Stems slender, 

 striate. Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong to ovate-oblong, cuneate and bi- 

 glandular at the base, the apex sub-acute or shortly and bluntly acumi- 

 nate ; both surfaces smooth, opaque, the lower very pale, the secondary 

 nerves and reticulations very indistinct on both ; main-nerves 3 pairs, 

 the lower two pairs bold and ascending, the upper pair less bold 

 and spreading; length 3'5 to 4'5 in.; breadth 1*75 to 2'25 in.; petiole 



