192 King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



Cymes 8- to 10-flowered, ebracteate or bracts small and fugacious, when 

 in flower not much exceeding the petioles in length; the peduncles 

 much shorter (longer in var. corymbosa) than the pubescent pedicels. 

 Flowers '15 in. long, tlieir pedicels '3 to '4 in. long. Calyx a shallow 

 truncate adpressed-hairy cup, its mouth with 5 short triangular teeth. 

 Corolla longer than the calyx, glabrous. Fruit globular, glabrescent, 

 crowned by the calyx-lobes, -15 in. in diam. Koord. & Valet. Bijdr. 8, 

 68. Axanthes longifolia, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VII. 145 t. 2, 

 f. 1. U. strigosum, Kurz Fl. Burin. II. 53 (not of KortTials). U. longi- 

 folium, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 99. 



Penang: Curtis 2753. Selangor: Ridley 7440, 8576. Perak : 

 Wray 2201, 3511 ; Scortechini2Q7, 715 ; King's Collector 2838, 2948, 2964. 



Var. corymbosa ; cymes 1 or 2 in the axils of the leaves, often as 

 much as 3*5 in. long (including the long peduncle), trichotomously 

 corymbose; stipules longer than the petioles, broadly oblong lanceolate, 

 sometimes auricled at the base, pubescent. Urophyllum corymbosum, 

 Korth. Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 194; Koord. & Valet. Bijdr. 8, 73. 



Perak: Scortechini. Kings Collector, 2263, 2298, 2409, 5723. 

 Johor : King. — Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 



3. Urophyllum hirsutum, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind., II. 98. Young 

 branches slender, softly cinereous-tomentose like the stipules, petioles, 

 and inflorescence. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly 

 elliptic, acuminate, the base rounded or sometimes narrowed ; upper 

 surface glabrous, rarely sub-glabrous ; the lower with pale soft spread- 

 ing hairs especially on the midrib and nerves ; main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, 

 curved, ascending ; length 3 to 5 in. ; br-eadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiole *15 to 

 •25 in. ; stipules much longer than the petioles, linear-lanceolate. Cymes 

 small, capitate, sessile, few-flowered, with a few ovate-lanceolate bracts. 

 Calyx hairy, on a short stalk ; the tube very short ; the limb with 5 

 broad triangular spreading lobes. Corolla hairy. Fruit depressed- 

 globose, the apex truncate, crowned by the small remains of the calyx, 

 sparsely pubescent, *15 to *2 in. in diam. when dry. Axanthes hirsuta, 

 Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VII. 148. Wendlandia bifaria, Wall. 

 Cat. 6278. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 873; Griffith (K.D.) 2939; WallicJi, 

 Goocleiwugh. Penang : Ridley 10251. Selangor: Ridley 7442. Negri 

 Sembilan: Ridley 10100. Singapore: Ridley 3906, 4913, 8428. 

 Johor: Ridley 4912, 11173, 11174. Perak : ScortecMni 84; Wray 152, 

 1305, 2488 ; King's Collector 199, 10494. Pahang : Ridley 2204, 2206. 



This species varies considerably as to the amount of hair on the leaves and as to 

 the number of the main-nerves. I refer to it with some hesitation Ridley 11176 

 from Johor, No. 8577 from Selangor, Scortechini 267 from Perak. 



