446 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



4 to 8 in. long, 2 to 4 in. broad ; midrib slender in the glabrous-leaved, 

 broad in the pubescent-leaved forms ; main nerves 10 to 14 pairs, 

 irregular, at about 50° with the midrib, curved upwards to and along 

 the margin where they anastomose ; secondary'' nei'ves few or none ; 

 reticulations irregular, not prominent ; petiole -1 to '2 in. long, some- 

 times none. Cymes many-flowered, dichotomous, 3 to 6 in. in diameter, 

 sessile or shortly pedimcled ; pedicels slender, -25 to "5 in. long ; bracts 

 small, lanceolate, pubescent or glabrous, cihate ; buds clavate ; flowers 

 white. Calyx-\ohe,% linear-lanceolate, -1 to -2 in. long, ciliate, glandular 

 at base or not ; tube scarcely any. Corolla-tvhQ slender, -3 to '4 in. 

 long, puberulous, slightly inflated at base ; mouth contracted ; lobes 

 oblong, acute or rounded at top, infolded in bud, cihate, '4 in. long. 

 Anthers mucronate. Ovary glabrous ; style short ; stigma fusiform. 

 Follicles 10 to 15 in. long, -2 in. broad, terete, black, often dotted 

 with white spots, diverging below, then incurved. Seeds hnear-oblong, 

 channelled on the inner, rounded on the outer, face, "5 to '6 in. long, 

 flattened at the hilum; coma golden-bro"wn, -75 to 1 in. long; cotyledons 

 cordate at base, '4 in. long ; radicle -1 in. A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 413 ; 

 Brandis For. El. 326, t. 40 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. CLX. tab. xx. 6 ; Km'z 

 For. Fl. II. 182 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 644 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 

 133 ; Prain Beng. PI. 674. H. Codaga, G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 78 ; 

 A. DC. I. c. 414 ; Km-z I. c. 181 ; Wight Ic. 1297. H. malaccensis, 

 Wight Ic. 1298 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 441. H. puhescens, W^aU. Cat. 

 1673 ; A. DC. I. c. 413 ; Miq. I. c. 440. Echites antidysenterica, Roxb. 

 Chonemorpha (?) antidysenterica, G. Don I.e.; Wight Ic. 439. " Codaga- 

 Pala," Rheede Hort. Mai. I. t. 47. 



Malacca : Caj)t. Wight cf. Wight Ic. 1298. — Distrib. India and 

 Burma. 



There are available in the Herbaria of Kew and Calcutta sheets of only one 

 specimen, which is that collected by Capt. Wight, and which was figui-ed in the 

 ' Icones ' as H. malaccensis. It is a specimen of the glabrous form of the tree, as was 

 to be exjDected, that being the more usual form in the damp regions of India, as is the 

 pubescent one in the dry regions. 



2. HoLAREHENA CuRTisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrulj, reaching 

 8 feet in height ; bi'anchlets slender, dark brown, smooth ; innovations 

 pubescent. Leaves chartaceous ; oblong or oblong-lanceolate or ob- 

 ovate, acute or rounded at apex, attenuate and rounded at base; shining 

 above, pale beneath and minutely pubescent ; the margins recurved ; 

 1-5 to 3-5 in. long, -75 to 1 in. broad; midrib thick, prominent beneath; 

 main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, regular, at about 45° with the midrib, 

 curving upwards to and along the margin, raised beneath ; seconda-n,'^ 



