460 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



foUiciilar mericarps. Seeds biseriate, ovate, acuminate or beaked, the 

 apex furnished with a coma ; albumen scanty or copious ; cotyledons 

 thin or fleshy, large; radicle cylindric, superior. — Disteib. Tropical 

 Asia, in India and Malaya ; species 5 or 6. 



A climbing shrub ; flowers in branching cymes ; anthers with a 



large dorsal gland . . . . . . . . 1. F. Pergulana. 



Shrubs or trees ; flowers in fascicles : — 



Flowers large ; leaves 3 to 4-5 in. long, -75 to 2 in. broad ; 



anthers with a large dorsal gland . . . . . . 2. F. Maingaiji. 



Flowers small ; leaves 1 to 2 in. long, '5 to "To in. broad ; 



anthers with a small dorsal gland . , . . . . 3. F. lancifolia. 



1. Vallaeis Peegulana, Bm-m. Fl. Ind. 51 (1768). A climbing 

 shrub, with an unpleasant odour; branchlets terete, pale, brown. 

 Leaves membranous ; broadly elliptic or obovate, abruptly and shortly 

 acute at apex, cuneate at base or sometimes rounded ; both surfaces 

 glabrous, the lower sometimes puberulous especially on the nerves ; 

 4 to 7 in. long, 3 to 4 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above ; 

 main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, at an angle of from 50° to 60° with the midrib, 

 ■ straight at first, curving and anastomosing near the margin, the upper 

 ones meeting a looped nerve ; secondary nerves very few ; reticulations 

 transverse, prominent ; petiole -75 to 1-5 in. long, slender. Cymes lax, 

 usually supra- axillary, puberulous, reaching 3 in. in length and 4 in. in 

 breadth ; pedimcles short, under -5 in. long ; branches dichotomous ; 

 pedicels slender, -25 to -5 in. long ; buds obovate, acute ; flowers white. 

 Calyx-tuhe very short, pubescent without; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 

 •3 in. long, pubescent ; glands very small, alternate with the lobes. Corolla- 

 tube hypocrateriform ; tube short, cylindric, -2 in. long, nearly glabrous ; 

 limb -35 in. long, cleft half-way down in ovate abruptly acuminate lobes, 

 pubescent on both sides. Disk of 5 rounded villous lobes, incurved at 

 tip. Stamens inserted near the top of the tube within ; filaments thick, 

 partly decurrent ; anthers sagittate, short-apiculate, exserted, -2 in. 

 long, the tails slender incurved, the dorsal surface with a large fleshy 

 glabrous rounded gland at the forking of the cells. Ovary rounded, 

 densely white-villous ; style slender ; stigma conical, with a rounded 

 tip and bifid apiculus. Fruit not known. A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 399 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 429 ; Hook. Ic. PI. 1. 153 (F. Pergularia by error); Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. II. 651. V. ovalis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 427. Pergularia 

 glabra, Linn. Mant. 53. Emericia Pergularia, Eoem. & Sch. Syst. IV. 

 401. Echites hircosa, Koxb. Fl. Ind. II. 18. "Flos Pergulanus," 

 Kumph. Herb. Amb. V. 51, t. 29, fig. 2. 



Malacca: Griffith; Maingay (K.D.) 1063, cultivated. — Distbib. 

 India (Bengal?), Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, Siam. 



