458 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



acuminate, 2-5 to 3 in. long and -2 to "3 in. broad, glabrous, terete, 

 slightly compressed, the mericarps at length separating. Seeds slender, 

 ■4 to -5 in. long, narrowly linear, constricted above and acuminate 

 below, tipped with a 1 in. long coma of pale silky hairs ; cotyledons 

 narrow ; radicle slender. 



Perak : in low-lying localities, Kunstler [King's Collector) 1824, 5650. 



3. Paesonsia stenocaepa. King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender 

 twining shrub ; branchlets terete, older somewhat channelled ; innova- 

 tions minutely rusty-pubescent. Leaves membranous ; ovate-lanceolate 

 shortly acute at apex, cuneate or sometimes slightly rounded at base ; 

 both surfaces sparsely but minutely pubescent when young, glabrous 

 when old ; margins recurved ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, slender, at about 50° with the mid- 

 rib, the lowest pair less, curving upwards to anastomose near the 

 margin, faint but apparent on the lower surface, as are the reticula- 

 tions ; petiole variable in length, '25 to 1 in. long, slender, often twisted 

 near the base ; stipular glands very small. Cymes axillary, few- (8- 

 to 10-) flowered, umbellate, pubescent ; peduncles about 1 in. long ; 

 pedicels slender, -2 in .long in flower, -3 in. long and rather thick in fruit ; 

 bracteoles minute, subulate ; flowers light yellow ; buds short, oblong- 

 conical. Calyx-tuhe, very short ; lobes ovate-acuminate, "125 in. long 

 scales very small or none. Corolla-ivhe cylindric-urceolate, 45 in. long 

 densely pubescent within in the upper part ; lobes ovate-acuminate, 

 spreading, -075 in. long. Dis^-lobes oblong, emarginate, '025 in. long 

 Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla-tube; filaments slender 

 radiating to the centre, but not spirally twisted ; anthers hastate 

 acuminate, the tails spreading outwards. Ovary ovoid-conical ; style 

 slender ; stigma columnar with a bifid apiculus at tip and a ring at 

 base. Fruit linear, terete, 5 to 7 in. long, -2 in. broad, rather quickly 

 separating into two terete mericarps ; placentas fiat, very thin. Seeds 

 •5 in. long, slender, slightly enlarged below, narrowed above and 

 furnished with a coma of golden-silky hairs about 1 in. long; cotyledons 

 oblong, -15 in. long ; radicle slender, -1 in. long. 



Peeak : Scortechini 1292 ; Wray 3263 ; King's Collector 6062 — in 

 dense jungle, at 300 to 500 feet, clinging to trees. 



P. curvisepala, K. Schum., of New Guinea, is very near this indeed, and scarcely 

 seems to differ, except in the greater hairiness, in the corolla-lobes being quite valvate 

 [Lyonsia'^), and in the calyx-lobes being much recurved. 



4. Paesonsia penangiana. King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing 

 shrub ; branchlets slender, dark brown, terete, internodes long. Leaves 

 membranous ; ovate, acuminate at apex, truncate or rounded at base ; 



