Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 463 



gland near the apex, which is often hooked; basal cells slender, in- 

 curved ; filaments pubescent, decurrent inside the corolla-tube in a 

 white-pubescent ridge to a little way above the base. Disfc-lobes linear- 

 subulate, -1 in. long. Oi'rtr^-carpels short, oblong, pubescent at top ; 

 stigma obsciu'ely ribbed. Follicles very slender, 1 foot long, fiexuous, 

 smooth, thinly coriaceous. Seeds l)lack, very slender, glabrous, flat, 

 1 in. long, 'OTS in. broad, enlarged at the apex where they bear the 

 coma ; coma white, 1 to 1'5 in. long ; albumen thin ; cotyledons linear- 

 oblong ; radicle slender. Benth. Fl. Hongk. 222 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 

 190, and Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XL VI. ii. 255 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 450. P. ovata, A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 442. P. Hookeriana, Wight Ic. 

 t. 1306 &/s. Parsonsia ovata, Wall. Cat. 1630. Teysmannia laxiflora 

 and Hookeriana, Miq. /. c. 455, 456 ; and Parapottsia, x\ddenda 1080. 

 Vallaris laxiflora, Blume Bijdr. 1043. Eutliodon iKiniculata, Griti'. 

 Notul. IV. 84 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 458, fig. 2. 



Kedah : Bidley. Penang: Curtis 820. Peeak: Wray 1904; 

 Scortechini 1287, 1289 ; Curtis 3337 ; King's Collector 1318, 4657, 5532, 

 10292,10988. Malacca: Griffith; Maing ay (K.B.) 1095. — Diqtrib. 

 India (E. Bengal and Assam), Burma, Java, S. China. 



18. Weightia, Br. 



Shrubs or small trees, with often slender branches. Leaves oppo- 

 site, penniveined. Floivers red, white, or yellowish, in terminal 

 or pseudo-axillary corymb-like cymes. Calyx short, 5-partite, with 

 glands or scales inside ; lobes obtuse. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube 

 cylindric, usually short, usually slightly constricted at the throat ; 

 lobes 5, overlapping to the left ; the throat or the lower part of the 

 lobes usually (absent in W. religiosa) furnished with a corona of 5 to 

 10 scales, which are often lobed or fimbriate, and either distinct or 

 connate in a ring. Stamens inserted on the mouth of the tube ; fila- 

 ments short, dilated; anthers exserted (almost included in W. duhia), 

 sagittate, conniving around and adhering to the stigma ; cells usuall)- 

 near the summit, base produced in solid spurs. Disk 0. Ovary of 2 

 free or connate, many-ovuled, carpels ; style filiform ; stigma ovoid, 

 with usually a toothed basal ring. Fruit of 2 connate or distinct 

 follicular mericarps. Seeds linear, attenuate at the apex, base with a 

 deciduous coma ; albumen scanty or ; cotyledons broad, convolute ; 

 radicle short, superior. — Disteib. Tropical Asia and Australia ; about 

 10 species. 



Throat of corolla furnished with a corona of scales or fringes : — 

 Corona-scales 10, 5 alternate with lobes of corolla, free, 

 2-iobed ; 5 opposite those lobes, adnata below, free above. 



