296 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Perak : Larut, 200 to 300 feet elevation, King's Collector 8191 t 

 Scortechini ! Malacca : Maingay. Penang : Gaudichaud 120 ; Curtis- 

 181 ! King's Collector 1458 ! — Distbib. Tenasserim, Sumatra, 

 Philippines. 



3. PoEANA, Burm. 



Large climbers. Leaves petioled, ovate or cordate, entire. Floivers 

 small ; cymes often in large panicles ; bracts persistent ; bracteoles 

 subulate or 0. Sepals 5, small and narrow in flower ; in fruit the outer 

 3 or all 5 much accrescent, membranous and spreading, usually spathu- 

 late. Corolla white, campanulate or infundibuliform with a wide or 

 narrow throat ; limb spreading plicate, sub-entire or 5-lobed. Stamens 

 5, adnate to corolla-tube, sub-included ; filaments linear or filiform. 

 Ovary 2-celled or 1-celled ; ovules 4 or 2 ; style long or short, entire or 

 2-fid ; stigma solitary 2-lobed, or stigmas 2, capitate. Fruit globose 

 oblong or obconic, 1-seeded, membranous, indehiscent or opening by 

 2 valves. Seed glabrous ; cotyledons plicate. — Distbib. Species about 

 10, throughout S.B. Asia. 



PoEANA voLUBiLis, Burm. M. Ind. 51. t. 21. f. 1. A large 

 climber ; stems and warted branches glabrous, young shoots pubescent. 

 Leaves glabrous, ovate sub-cordate, or sometimes base rounded, apex 

 shortly acuminate, quite glabrous, 2"5 in. long, 1*5 in. wide ; petiole 

 •6 in. long. Flowers white, small, in sub-ebracteate cymes disposed in 

 panicles 12 to 15 in. long, minutely tawny-pubescent ; pedicels "1 to 

 •25 in. long. Sepals 5, minutely pubescent, in flower -2 in. long, oblong; 

 in fruit -35 in. long, sub-spathulate, all equal. Corolla '3 in. long; tube 

 narrow ; limb rather distinctly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, included. - Ovary 

 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; style 2-partite ; stigmas small, capitate. Fruit a 

 globose capsule, enclosed in the accrescent 5-7-nerved calyx-lobes, 

 •15 in. in diam. Seed solitary. Lamk 111. t. 186 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey & Wall. II. 40; ed. orig. I. 465 ; Blume Bijdr. 723; Wall. Cat. 

 1327 ; Choisy Convolv. Or. 106, and in DC. Prod. IX. 436 ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 222. 



Malacca : Griffith ! King ! — Distbib. Indo-China, Malay Archi- 

 pelago. 



King's examples are from a cultivated plant ; whether those of Griffith be from, 

 wild plants is unknown. 



4. Neubopeltis, Wall. 



Large scandent, tomentose shrubs. Leaves ovate or oblong, firm, 

 petioled. Flowers many, small, in axillary racemes or terminal 

 panicles ; pedicels distinct, beset by solitary ovate-lanceolate bracteoles 

 under the calyx, in flower inconspicuous, in fruit greatly accrescent. 



