260 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



nodal line. Floivers in a terminal trichotomous rusty-pubescent cyme, 

 supported by pale (white ?) leafy, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent bracts 1 to 

 1-25 in. long; bracteoles similar but smaller; pedicels -15 in. long ; 

 flowers in each cyme about 15 to 20. Calyx-tube campanulate, "15 in. 

 long ; lobes 6, linear-subulate, -5 in. long. Corolla-tube slender, cylin- 

 drical, 1 in. long; lobes 8 to 9, spreading or recurved, -5 in. long, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute. Anthers oblong, -125 in. long, mucronate. Ovary 

 cylindric, glabrous; style slender; stigmas 2, clavate. Fruit noi known. 

 Peeak : at Ipoh, Curtis. 



A remarkable species, distinguished by the very long hair-like calyx-lobes and the 

 coloured or white large leafy bracts and bracteoles. 



6. Jasminum decussatum, Wall. Cat. 2860 (1829). A climbing shrub; 

 branchlets slender, densely rusty-pubescent. Leaves chartaceous ; 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded at base ; sparsely 

 pubescent above, more densely so beneath ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. 

 broad ; midrib rather stout ; main-nerves 4 to 5, lowest pair obscure, 

 rest curved upwards to meet near the margin, impressed above, raised 

 beneath ; petiole 'S to '4 in. long, pubescent, articulate near the base, 

 the bases of each pair of petioles (as also branchlets) joined by a 

 raised nodal line on either side. Floivers in densely pubescent axillary 

 and terminal trichotomous corymbose cymes about 1 to 2 in. long, sup- 

 ported by a pair of large leaf-like bracts ; bracteoles linear-subulate ; 

 pedicels '1 to '2 in. long. Calyx-tube short ; teeth 6, subulate, -1 in. 

 long. Corolla-tube slender, -25 in. long ; lobes 8 to 9, as long as tube, 

 oblong- lanceolate, apiculate. Stamens included in the corolla-tube ; 

 filaments short ; anthers oblong, -1 in. long, mucronate. Ovary rounded, 

 glabrous ; style slender, longer than the corolla-tube (in short-stamened 

 flowers); stigmas two, clavate. Fruit of one ellipsoid carpel, "2 to -3 in. 

 long, glabrous. A.DC. Prod. VIII. 306 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. XLVI. 

 ii. 241, and For. Fl. II. 151 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 596. 



Penang : King's Collector 1425, at Trang, 100 to 300 feet. — Distrib. 

 Burma {Wallich 2860, Griffith 3699). 



7. Jasminum bifarium. Wall. Cat. 2866 (1829). A climbing shrub ; 

 branchlets slender, terete, brown when dry, pubescent or nearly glab- 

 rous. Leaves chartaceous, usually bifarious ; ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 acuminate at apex, rounded or truncate sometimes almost cordate at 

 base ; pubescent or sometimes nearly glabrous on both surfaces ; 2 to 

 3 in. long, 1 to 1*5 in. broad; midrib slender, pubescent, impressed above, 

 raised beneath ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, pubescent, prominent beneath, 

 arched upwards to join in an intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves and 

 reticulations very obscure; petiole '2 to '3 in. long, twisted, articu- 



