404 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



stamens, constricted at throat ; glabrous within except at the base ; 

 lobes "15 to "2 in. long, broadly rhomboid-falcate, plicate in bud. 

 Stamens in the dilated part of the tube; anthers lanceolate, rounded 

 at base, -05 in. long ; filaments slender, pubescent below, as long as 

 anthers. Ovary ovate, compressed, tapering to a "075 in. long style 

 with short subglobular stigma. Fruit not known. 



Peeak : near XJlu KerHng, 500 to 700 feet. King's Collector 8823 ; 

 swamps in lower Perak, Gantley 227. Selangor: at Kwala Lumpor, 

 Bidley 2839 ; Curtis 2354. 



Curtis' s specimen has more narrowly lanceolate leaves and a rather longer 

 apiculus, with more slender branches, and has also, with Kidley's specimen, shorter 

 peduncles to the inflorescence, but they seem both to be correctly this species, which 

 comes very near to C. enervis, but has much less slender flowers and larger in- 

 florescence. 



6. Chilocaepus nigeescens, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous 

 climbing (?) shrub ; branchlets rather stout, nearly black, terete, 

 the nodes somewhat swoUen and usually ridged. Leaves chartaceo- 

 coriaceous ; elliptic- oblong or -oblanceolate, shortly and abruptly blunt- 

 acuminate at apex, cuneate at base, often from nearly the middle of the 

 blade ; upper surface shining, nearly black when dry, lower a little 

 paler and greyish-brown, minutely puncticulate ; margins slightly re- 

 curved; 3 to 5 in. long, 1'5 to 2 in. broad; midrib rather slender, 

 slightly impressed above, raised beneath ; main nerves 12 to 16 pairs at 

 an angle of about 75° with the midrib, nearly straight to meet an 

 arching intramarginal nerve at about -1 in. from the edge, faint on both 

 surfaces ; secondary nerves many, often recurrently branched ; reticula- 

 tions obscure ; petiole -5 to '6 in. long. Cymes axillary, up to 1-5 in. 

 long, more or less pyramidal, crowded ; peduncle stout, flattened, -3 to 

 •Sin. long; branches 3-chotomous, short; cymules subumbellate ; pedicels 

 about -15 in. long, densely strobilate with imbricate, rounded, pale- 

 margined bracteoles; the bracts at the bases of the branches acute and 

 sheathing ; buds clavate, "4 in. long, the tip globose. Calyx campanu- 

 late, '05 to -075 in. long ; lobes rather deep, broadly ovate, rounded, 

 minutely ciliate. Corolla-ixxhe narrowly cylindric, dilated at about 

 one-third of the height from the base opposite the stamens, contracted 

 at the naked mouth, glabrous without, slightly puberulous below the 

 stamens within ; lobes linear-falcate, acuminate, much twisted, about 

 •2 in. long. Stamens inserted below the middle of the tube ; anthers 

 lanceolate, apiculate, rounded at base, -05 in. long, as long as the slender 

 curved filaments. Ovary conoidal, glabrous, style slender, obconic 

 above ; stigma conical. Berry not known, 



