284 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



167, 898 ; King's Collector 7436, 8344.— Disteib. Burma, Griffith (K.D.) 

 6002, Malay Archipelago, Australia. 



2. Eheetia paeallela, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 143 

 (1883). A shrub, all parts except the inflorescence glabrous ; young 

 branches thinner than a goose-quill, pale when dry. Leaves membranous ; 

 obovate or obovate-elliptic, obtuse, from retuse to sub-acute, cuneate at 

 the base ; both surfaces dark brown when dry ; main-nerves 7 or 8 

 pairs, scarcely curved, ascending, parallel, very bold and distinct on the 

 lower surface like the midrib (when dry), faint on the upper ; length 

 1*5 to 1'75 in., breadth -75 to 1 in. ; petiole '25 in. Inflorescence^ 

 flowers, and fruit as in E. Icevis, Eoxb., var. timorensis, but smaller. 



Penang : Curtis 1572.— Disteib. Burma, Griffith (K.D.) 6004. 



5. CoLDENiA, Linn. 



Much-branched, diffuse or prostrate scabrous herbs. Leaves alter- 

 nate, crisped. Floioers small, axillary, sessile or sub-sessile ; the upper 

 sometimes in a short one-sided bracteate cyme. Calyx 4-5-partite. 

 Corolla with short funnel-shaped tube and 4 or 5 spreading segments 

 imbricate in bud. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on the tube ; anthers ovate. 

 Ovary broadly ovoid, 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, or imperfectly 

 4-celled with 1 in each ; styles 2, distinct at the base but united upwards 

 (although easily separable) ; stigmas 2, capitate. Fruit almost dry, 

 composed of 4 sub-connate 1-seeded pyrenes ; seeds with thin testa and 

 little if any albumen ; the cotyledons plane. — Disteib. Species 12, 

 10 of which are American, 1 African, and the undernoted which is 

 eosmopohtan. 



CoLDENiA PEOCUMBENS, Linn. Sp. PL 125 (1753). A scabrous-hairy 

 prostrate herb. Leaves elliptic-obovate, coarselj^ and deeply serrate, 

 almost pinnatifid. Fruit, prior to disintegration into its component 

 pyrenes, pyramidal. Gaertn. Fruct. I. 329, t. 68 ; Lamk 111. t. 69 ; 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 448 ; WaU. Cat. 942 ; DC. Prod. IX. 558 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 933 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 144 ; Trimen FL 

 Ceyl. III. 197 ; Cooke Bomb. Fl. II. 205 ; Prain Beng. Plants 718. 

 Lobophylluyn tetrandrum, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. IX. 21. 

 Waltheria microphylla, Miq. in PL Hohenack. n. 87b (not of Cav.). 



By waysides, not common. — Disteib. Everywhere in the tropics. 



Order LXXXI. CONVOLVULACE^. 



[By D. Peain.] 



Herbs or shrubs, usually twining, occasionally erect ; very rarely 

 trees ; sometimes parasitic. Leaves alternate or in parasitic species. 



