400 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Flowers in axillary cymes much shorter than the leaves ; 

 flower-pedicels with imbricate bracteoles : — 

 Leaves coriaceous, more or less obovate : — 



Cymes nearly sessile ; leaves obtuse at the apex ; fruit- 

 pericarp usually tubercled without ; seeds with thin testa 

 and horny albumen . . . . . . . . 4. C. enervis. 



Cymes on peduncles nearly -5 in. long ; leaves shortly 

 apiculate ; fruit unknown : — 

 Leaves coriaceous, upper surface dull brown, lower pale 

 when dry ; main nerves nearly at right angles to the 

 midrib ; corolla-lobes rhomboid-falcate . . . . 5. C. Cantleyi. 



Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous, upper surface nearly black 

 shining, lower dark greyish-brown when dry ; main 

 nerves at about 75° with the midrib ; corolla-lobes 

 linear-falcate . . . . . . . . 6. (7. nigrescens. 



Leaves scarcely coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate ; fruit 2 to 

 2"o in. long, about 1 in. broad ; seeds with granular testa 

 and thin fleshy albumen . . . . . . 7. C. minutiflorus. 



Flowers rather large, corolla-tube •! to 1 in. long ; leaves large, 

 nerves very prominent ; seeds with thin testa and horny 

 albumen . . . . . . . . . . 8. C. costatus. 



1. Chilocarpus atro-vieidis, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 153 

 (1850). A glabrous slender climbing shrub; young branches not much 

 thicker than a crow-quill, pale brown, terete, sparsely lenticellate, 

 swollen at the nodes. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; narrowly elliptic- 

 oblong or -lanceolate, shortly and bluntly caudate-acuminate at apex, 

 cuneate at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, dull when dry, the upper 

 pale brown, the lower yellowish, puncticulate ; margins thinly cartila- 

 ginous, slightly recurved, crispate ; 2-25 to 3 in. and even 5 in. long, 

 •5 to 1'25 in., even 1-75 in., broad; midrib prominent, impressed above ; 

 main nerves very numerous, parallel, irregularly spaced, about 25 to 30 

 pairs ; at an angle of about 75" with the midrib, straight to the margin 

 to meet an intramarginal looped nerve very close to it (under -05 in.) ; 

 secondary nerves very many, between the main nerves, recurrent from 

 the marginal nerve and branched backwards, the branches forming the 

 only visible reticulations ; petiole '3 to '4 in. long, slender. Cymes very 

 slender, terminal and axillary, reaching 2 to 4 in. in length, trichotomous ; 

 peduncles "5 to 1 in. long, flattened ; branch peduncles slender, nearly as 

 long ; ultimate cymules corymbose or subumbellate ; pedicels slender, 

 •1 to '15 in. long; bracts leafy, caducous, one or two always at the base 

 of each pedicel minute and scarious ; buds clavate, -2 in. long, tip 

 globose ; flowers deep yellow. Calyx campanulate, under -1 in. long ; 

 lobes ovate-obtuse, margins hyaline. Coro^^a-tube short, -1 to "15 in. 

 long, dilated in the middle opposite the stamens, glabrous except a ring 

 of hair within below the stamens ; lobes '1 in. long, falcate, broadly 



