54 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at base or cuneate, often 

 unequal, 3 in. long, "75 to 1 in. broad, serrate or almost entire, the- 

 serratures mucronate ; chartaceous ; glabrous above, glaucous and 

 glabrous or with scattered pubescence beneath ; midrib slender, main- 

 nerves 4-6 pairs at about 30 degrees with the midrib, arching and 

 joining near the margin ; petiole short, '15 to '25 in. long. Floioers 

 soUtary, terminal or in the forks of a dichotomous cyme; peduncles 

 •3 to '5 in. long, those of terminal flowers shorter ; bracts small linear. 

 Calyx-tube in bud shortly adnate to the ovary, in fruit often half-way 

 up; teeth -2 to "3 in. long, linear-lanceolate, often serrate. Corolla 

 epigynous, shortly campanulate, white or yellowish-white, -3 to '5 in. 

 long; lobes 5, triangular acute. Stamens -15 in. long; anthers linear, 

 •05 in. long, filaments dilated. Ovary 5-6-celled ; style thickened 

 upwards, then cylindric, angled ; stigma about 4-cleft. Berry "3 to 

 •4 in. in diam., globose, white, slightly succulent, becoming nearly dry, 

 breaking up irregularly. Seeds very many, minute, ovoid, flattened, 

 testa smooth. A. DC. Monog. Camp. 120, Prod. VII. 423 ; Clarke in 

 Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. III. 436 ; Prain Beng. Plants I. 634. C. truncata, 

 Endl. Gen. PI. I. 515. Codonopsis truncata, Wall. Cat. 1301 ; DC. I.e. 

 123 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 566. C. leucocarpa and C. celebica, Miq. 

 I.e. II. 565, 566. C. alUfiora, Griff. Notul. IV. 279. Cyclocodon 

 lancifolium, Kurz in Flora 303 ; Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. 210,. 

 l^artly. C. truncatum, Hook. f. and Th. in Journ. Linn. Soc. II. 18. 

 C. adnatus, Griff. ; Benth. in Gen. PI. II. 558. Campanula lancifolia, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 505 ; DC I.e. 485. 



Penang : Curtis 2039. Peeak : Wray S236; Scortechini. — Disteib. 

 India from the Sikkim Himalaya to Chittagong and Burma, Malay 

 Islands, Southern China. 



3. Pentapheagma, Wall. < 



Fleshy perennial herbs, with short, often rooting, little-branched 

 stems. Leaves alternate, broad, rounded, sometimes very unequal at 

 the base, petioles rather long. Liflorescence of axillary or lateral dense 

 braeteate scorpioid spikes or racemes, the flowers generally in pairs 

 between the bracts. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; lobes 4-5, 

 superior, obtuse, persistent, unequal in size. Corolla campanulate, the 

 tube short, lobes 4-5. Stamens 5 alternate with the corolla-lobes, 

 epigynous or on the corolla tube ; anthers ovate or oblong ; filaments 

 dilated, curved outwards when open. Ovary 3-5-celled ; style short, 

 cylindric ; stigma large, cylindric or conical, obscurely 4-5-lobed ; 

 placentas bifid, ovules many. Fruit a more or less succulent berry, 

 dehiscence unknown (c/. Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 506). Seeds very many,. 



