Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 71 



Leaves 2 to 5 in. long : — 



Calyx-lobes broad, blunt .. .. .. ..1. D. latifolia. 



Calyx-lobes triangular, acute .. .. ..2. D, heterophylla. 



Leaves 1-5 to 2 in. long .. .. .. ..3. D. erythrina. 



1. DiPLYCOSiA LATIFOLIA, Blume Bijdr. 858. A small glabrous 

 epiphytic shrub ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, pale 

 and angled wSen dry. Leaves thickly coriaceous, elliptic, the apex 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate or somewhat rounded^ 

 the edges recurved ; both surfaces pale yellowish-brown when dry, the 

 upper shining, the lower dull ; the midrib bold, much raised on the 

 lower surface, slightly depressed on the upper ; main-nerves 2 or 3 

 pairs, curving upwards, the lower pair usually longer than the others, 

 none of them very prominent on either surface, but more so on the 

 lower than on the upper, reticulations obsolete ; length 3 to 5 in. ; 

 breadth 1-35 to 3 in. ; petioles -2 to '3 in. long. Flowers -2 in. long, in 

 axillary fascicles of 3 or 4 ; their pedicels slender, -1 to -15 in. long, 

 inserted 3 or 4 together on minute tubercles surrounded by several 

 small bracts. Calyx cupular, -1 in. across, with 5 broad, spreading, 

 obtuse, ciliolate lobes. Corolla "25 in. long, narrowly campanulate, con- 

 tracted into a short tube at the base, the limb deeply divided into 

 5 ovate sub-acute lobes, closely embracing the ovary. Stamens 10, 

 included; anthers narrowly oblong, each with two short apical trun- 

 cate beaks but no basal processes ; the filaments slender in their upper 

 halves, the lower halves dilated and cohering into a tube. Ovary 

 5-celled, the apex broad, concave ; style cylindric, about as long as 

 the corolla ; stigma small, capitate. Fruit 5-celled ; seeds numerous, 

 elongate, black, closely enveloped by the persistent corolla. Miq. El. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 1055. 



Peeak, at elevations of 6,700 feet: Wray 364, 909, 2204; Scorte- 

 chini 339 ; King's Collector 6797, 8023. Selangoe : Piidley 7556.— 

 DiSTEiB. Java. 



2. Dipltcosia heteeophylla, Blume Bijdr. 858. A shrub ; young 

 branches as thick as a crow-quill, coarsely rusty-pilose at first, after- 

 wards sub-glabrous, when dry pale and angled. Leaves coriaceous, 

 elliptic oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex and 

 base, the edges recurved ; both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry, 

 the upper sub-reticulate and shining, the lower dull and not reticulate ; 

 main-nerves 1 pair following the edge from base to apex, distinct and 

 depressed like the midrib on the upper surface, indistinct on the lower ; 

 length 2 to 4 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiole rather more than -2 in. long. 

 Flowers axillary, fascicled, rarely solitary, about -15 in. long, bearing 

 under the calyx 2 broadly reniform, acute, spreading concave bracts. 



