Flora of the Malayan Peninanla. 467 



4. Weightia eeligiosa, Benth. in Gen. PL II. 713 (1876). A small 

 shrub or tree ; branches stiff, grey ; branchlets also stiff, twiggy, innova- 

 tions scabrous-papillose. Leaves membranous, smaU ; ovate-lanceolate, 

 obtusely acuminate at apex, cuneate at base, those of young shoots 

 linear-oblong; glabrous on the upper surface except for the crisped 

 pubescence on the midrib, glabrous on the lower, the midrib only 

 sHghtly pubescent ; -5 to 1-5 in. long, -3 to -7 in broad, those of the 

 shoots 2 to 2-5 in. long and '5 in. broad ; midrib slender, crisped- 

 pubescent ; main nerves about 4 pairs (shoot-leaves up to 10 pairs or 

 more), ciu'ved upwards to join in a faint intramarginal nerve ; secondary 

 nerves and reticulations inconspicuous ; petiole slender, scarcely "1 in. 

 long. Cymes terminal, few- (up to 12-) flowered ; main peduncles fairly 

 stout, flattened, -2 in. long; secondary peduncles 1 to 4, about -1 in. 

 long ; pedicels capillaiy, 'O to '7 in. long, curved and twisted ; bracteoles 

 minute, ovate ; buds ovate-oblong ; flowers white. Caly x-lohes ovate, 

 acute, cihate, with a few (about 5) blackish scales near the top of the 

 tube inside. Corolla-tvhe cyHndric, glabrous, "15 in. long ; lobes ovate- 

 orbicular, very thin, ner%''ose, "25 to -3 in. long, glabrous ; corona-scales 

 none. Stamens long-exsert ; filaments rather slender, -1 in. long ; 

 anthers Hnear-lanceolate, cells near the summit, connective thickened. 

 Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style slender ; stigma conical. Follicles 

 straight, linear, terete, 3 to 6 in. long, divergent at an angle of about 

 20° to 40°. Seeds Unear, -3 to 4 in. long, somewhat blunt at both ends, 

 furnished below with a white silky coma 1 to 1'5 in. long ; testa 

 striate, faintly puberulous. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 653 ; Kurz For. 

 Fl. II. 194. Echites religiosa, Teysm. & Binnend. Hort. Bogor. 126. 



Siamese States : at Kasoom, Curtis 3241. Malacca : Maingay 

 (K.D.) 1071. SiNG.iPOEE : T. Aiulerson 115 ; Maingay (K.D.) 3334 ; 

 cultivated only. — Disteib. Siam {Scliomhurgh 132) ; Tenasserim. 



Subtribe 2. — Neeiin^. 

 19. Steophanthus, DC. 



Small trees or shrubs ; often climbing. Leaves opposite, penni- 

 veined. Floivers usually large, in terminal clones. Calyx 5-partite, scales 

 5 to many within at the base of the lobes. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube 

 short, campanulate or urceolate at the mouth and fui'nished with 10 

 free or connate corona-scales"" ; lobes 5, twisted, overlapping to the 

 right, sometimes produced in long or short tails, rarely ovate-acute. 

 Stamens inserted at the top of the tube, included ; filaments short ; 



' The corona-scales may be either considered as 10, free or connate ; or as 5, often 

 cleft to the base. 



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