396 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



nerves, frequently recurrently branching ; reticulations many, prominent ; 

 all more or less raised on the upper surface ; petiole -25 to -5 in. long, 

 slender. Cymes axillary, sessile, about twice as long as the petiole, 

 dense-flowered ; pedicels scarcely -05 in. long, pubescent ; bracteoles 

 ovate-lanceolate, sheathing the cyme-branches ; buds oblong-clavate, 

 about -5 in. long ; flovi^ers pink or orange-yellow. Calyx deeply lobed, 

 nearly glabrous, "1 in. long ; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla- 

 tube cylindric, slightly dilated in the middle opposite the stamens, 

 •175 in. long, slightly pubescent within; lobes oblong-falcate, obtuse, 

 •3 in. long, margins sparsely ciliate. Anthers sagittate, the tips nearly 

 reaching the throat of the corolla-tube; filaments slender. Ovary 

 broadly ovoid, glabrous ; style slender ; stigma cylindric-conical. Berry 

 ovoid-globose, 3 to 4 in. in diameter; pericarp orange-yellow, thick, 

 hard, the seeds embedded in a fibrous edible yellowish pulp. Seeds 

 flattened, nearly orbicular in outline ; testa leathery ; cotyledons thick, 

 conform to the seed, plano-convex ; radicle minute. A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 

 321 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 165. W. ediilis, Eoxb. ; Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 623 {in part). W. dulcis, Eidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 319. 



Penang : Curtis 687. Malacca : Griffith ; Goodenough 1450. 

 Pahang : at Praman, near Pekan, Bidley 1022. — Disteib. Burma. 



7. WiLLUGHBEiA TENUiFLOEA, Dyer in Herb. Kew. ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 625 (1882). A large climbing shrub ; branches with black 

 bark ; branchlets greyish-bro^vn, lenticellate, striate when dry ; innova- 

 tions puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, membranous when young ; 

 elliptic, elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, sharply and somewhat abruptly 

 acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; both surfaces glabrous and some- 

 what shining when dry, the upper dark olivaceous-bfown, the lower 

 bright reddish-brown ; margins cartilaginous, recm'ved, almost revolute ; 

 4 to 6 in. long, 1-25 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, prominent, red ; 

 main nerves 20 to 30 pairs, very slender, the middle ones at from 70' to 

 80° with the midrib, the upper at a less angle, the lower nearly or quite 

 at right angles, straight to near the margin where they branch and 

 curve slightly, prominent beneath, less so above ; secondary nerves 

 occasional, between and similar to the main-nerves ; reticulations in- 

 visible except in very young leaves ; petiole '5 to '6 in. long, channelled 

 above. Cymes axillary, about twice as long as the petioles, densely 

 crowded with many short few-flowered branches, rusty-puberulous like 

 the calyx, pedicels and bracteoles ; bracteoles ovate, acute, deciduous ; 

 pedicels -05 to -1 in. long ; buds oblong-clavate, elongate, reaching 

 nearly 1 inch ; flowers white. Calyx campanulate ; lobes ovate, obtuse, 

 ciliate, 1 in. long. Corolla-tube narrowly cylindric with a nearly 

 globular dilatation close above the base and opposite the stamens, 



