412 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Pbnang : Maingay (K.D.) 1085. Perak : Curtis 1308. — Distrib. 

 India (Sikkim Himalaya, Cooch Behar, Assam, Khasia Hills and 

 Sylhet) ; Timor {Forbes 3708). The fruit is edible. 



2. Melodinus orientalis, Blume Bijd. 1026 (1826) and Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd.-Bat. I. 155, fig. LIT. A large glabrous climbing shrub ; branches 

 smooth, rather slender, with nearly black bark ; upper branchlets 

 obscurely angled, glabrous. Leaves chartaceous ; oblong or elliptic- 

 oblong, obtusely acuminate at apex, acute at base and often unequal ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces, upper nearly black and shining when dry, 

 lower chocolate-brown and dull ; margins slightly undulate-crispate ; 

 3 to 5-5 in. long, 1 to 2-25 in. broad ; midrib slender, slightly impressed 

 above, sharply raised beneath ; main nerves about 20 to 30 pairs, at from 

 60° to 70° with the midrib, curving upwards and branching to meet an 

 obscure intramarginal looped nerve quite close to the margin ; secondary 

 nerves hardly distinguishable from main nerves, but rather more slender, 

 sometimes with recurrent branches ; reticulations irregular, obscure ; 

 petiole '3 to -5 in. long, bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade, 

 which are connivent. Cymes axillary, few- (8- to 10-) flowered, crowded, 

 scarcely as long as the petioles ; jDedu-ncles very short or almost none, 

 stout ; bracts ovate-acute, sheathing the branches and the very short 

 (•025 in. long) pedicels, which also bear a pair of rounded bracteoles 

 below the calyx; buds clavate, -25 in. long, tip globose; flowers white. 

 Calyx campanulate, thick, -1 in. long; lobes half that length, ovate, 

 rounded, puberulous. Corolla-tuhe thick, cylindric, "2 in. long, dilated 

 opposite the stamens, contracted above and below, puberulous without, 

 and within below the stamens ; lobes short, obliquely ovate, bifid, one 

 branch bicuspidate, plicate in bud ; throat with 5 thick fleshy 2-lobed 

 scales. Stamens inserted in the middle of the tube ; anthers lanceolate, 

 apiculate, rounded at base ; filaments short, slender. Ovary conoidal, 

 ribbed, surmounted by a slender style "05 in. long and obconic above ; 

 stigma conical with a bifid apiculus. Berry "large, yellow" (Maingay), 

 "globose, red" (Blume), apparently about 2-5 in. in diameter. Seeds 

 oblong, about -8 in. long and -4 in. broad, testa rugose. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 395, t. xxxiv.; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 330; Kurz in Jom-n. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLVI. ii. 250, %n note; Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. III. 629. Hunteria? 

 cusjndata, Wall. Cat. 1609 ; A. DC. I. c. 350. Alyxia ? cuspidata, Wall. 

 Herb. Chilocarpus cuspidatus, Benth. in Gen. PL II. 698 (under 

 Hunteria). 



Penang : Wallich 1609 ; Phillips ; Maingay (K.D.) 1043/2 {Chilo- 

 carpUs suaveolens) ; Curtis 738, 2838. Perak : on Maxwell's hill, 

 3000 ft. Scortechini 355 ; at Goping, King's Collector 4530. Distrib. 

 Java, Sumatra {Forbes 1568). 



