Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 297 



Sepals 5, sub-orbicular, hardly altered in fruit. Corolla small, white ; 

 tube wide-campanulate ; limb deeply 5-lobed, the lobes induplicate- 

 valvate in bud. Statiiens 5, exserted or included, adnate to corolla- 

 tube ; filaments filiform. Ovary imperfectly or perfectly 2-celled ; 

 ovules 4 ; styles 2, free throughout, stigmas sub-capitate wavy or 

 obscurely lobed. Fruit a globose, 4-valved, 1 -seeded capsule sessile 

 near the centre of the flat, much-accrescent bracteole. Seed globose, 

 glabrous, albuminous; cotyledons plicate. — Disteib. Species 2, in 

 tropics of Eastern Hemisphere. 



Neueopeltis eacemosa. Wall. Cat. 1322. A robust climber ; 

 branchlets pubescent, lenticellate, rather dark. Leaves alternate, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, base cuneate, apex acuminate with a narrow 

 longish thickened mucro ; lamina 2-5 to 5 in. long, 1-25 to 2-25 in. 

 wide ; firmly papery ; glabrous except along the midrib above, slightly 

 rusty with a sub-persistent pubescence beneath ; lateral nerves about 

 7-paired, somewhat curved forward, rather prominent and pubescent 

 beneath. Floioers in axillary racemes 2 to 5 in. long, peduncle "5 to 

 in. and rachis rusty -tomentose; bracts small ovate; pedicels '12 

 to "2 in. long, tomentose, slender, with an ovate-lanceolate bracteole 

 under the cal}^. Sepals 5, somewhat connate below, small, orbicular, 

 rufous-villous. Corolla small, campanulate, white, tube rufous-villous 

 externally ; limb "25 to -3 in. across, 5-lobed, lobes ovate nearly as long 

 as the tube. Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube, exserted ; filaments 

 thickened at base. Ovary imperfectly or perfectly 2-celled, rufous- 

 villous at base ; ovules 2 in each cell ; styles 2, glabrous ; stigmas 

 large globose wavy. Capsule -25 in. long, ovoid, giabrescent, sessile 

 in the centre of the accrescent, orbicular, scarious, reticulate bract 

 1 to l'7o in. wide with rounded or cordate base. Seed globose, 

 glabrous, albuminous ; cotyledons plicate. Eoxb. Flor. Ind. ed. Carey 

 & Wall. II. 44 ; Deless. Ic. Select. V. t. 96 ; Choisy Convolv. Or. 109, 

 t. 2. f. 12, and in DC. Prod. IX. 437 ; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 291 ; Kurz 

 For. Mor. Burm. II. 222 ; Clarke in Hook f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 225. 

 N. ovata, WaU. Cal^ 1323 ; Choisy Convolv. Or. 110, t. 2, f. 13, and in 

 DC. Prod. IX. 437. N. bracteata, Griff. Notul. IV. 285. N. intermedia, 

 Griff. :Notul. IV. 285. 



Pekak : Larut, Scortechini 1483 ! 1489 ! 2071 ! King's Collector 

 3544 ! 3792 ! 4370 ! 6809 ! Penang : Wallich ! Malacca : Maingay 

 1152 ! 1153 ! Singapore : Wallich ! — Distrib. Malabar, Borneo. 



5, E VOLVULUS, Linn. 

 Small prostrate or erect herbs or undershrubs, never climbing. 

 Leaves small, entire, often distichous. Flowers small, blueish or white, 



