468 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



anthers sagittate, more or less acuminate or produced in a long bristle, 

 connivent around the stigma and adhering to it ; cells pollen-bearing 

 near the top only, produced at the base in empty spurs. Disk none. 

 Carpels 2, distinct ; style slender ; stigma thick, columnar or conical 

 with a membranous reflexed frill at the base, tip simple or bifid ; ovules 

 many in each carpel, many-seriate. Fruit of two follicular mericarps, 

 oblong or elongate, hard, divergent or divaricate. Seeds compressed, 

 fusiform, narrowed into a long, feathery-plumose point, base with a 

 deciduous coma ; albumen scanty, fleshy ; cotyledons oblong, plano- 

 convex. — DisTEiB. Tropical and South Africa and Tropical Asia; 

 about 40 species. 



Lobes of the corolla exceeding the tube in length : — 

 Lobes of the corolla more than 1 in. long ; main nerves of 

 leaves conspicuous ; corona-scales falcate-acuminate : — 

 Leaves 3 to 5 in. long ; calyx-lobes acuminate from an 

 ovate base, -25 in. long ; bracts short . . . . 1. S. diehotomus. 



Leaves 1-5 to 3 in. long ; calyx-lobes subulate-lanceolate, 

 •5 in. long; bracts long, similar to calyx-lobes . . 2. S. Wallichii. 



Lobes of the corolla scarcely -IB in. long, blunt at tip ; main 

 nerves very obscure ; corona-scales a short crenate fold . . 3. S. perakensis. 

 Lobes of the corolla almost as long as the tube ; leaves 2 to 

 4 in. long ; main nerves conspicuous ; corona-scales linear- 

 falcate ; calyx-lobes ovate-acute, -1 in. long. . . . , 4. S. singaporianus. 



1. Steophanthus dichotomus, DC. in Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris III. 

 123 (1802). An erect or straggling sarmentose shrub, 9 to 10 ft. high ; 

 branches stout, as are the branchlets ; bark of branchlets dark brown 

 Avith prominent lenticels. Leaves chartaceous, often membranous when 

 dry, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or -obovate, more or less abruptly shortly 

 acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; both surfaces glabrous ; margins 

 recurved ; 3 to 5 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; midrib prominent, impressed 

 above, raised beneath ; main nerves 8 to 9 pairs, impressed above, 

 raised beneath, starting at an angle of about 70° with the midrib and 

 sUghtly curved upwards to meet in a prominent intramarginal looped 

 nerve at a Uttle distance from the edge ; secondary nerves few, between 

 the main nerves ; reticulations oblique, impressed above ; petiole '25 in. 

 long, articulate. Cymes dichotomous ; peduncle short, stout, up to 

 •5 in. long ; branches short, corymbose, with ovate-acuminate, cadu- 

 cous bracts about -15 in. long; pedicels stout, -3 to "5 in. long; bracts 

 small, ovate-acute ; flowers whitish or greenish with dark purple 

 corolla-tails. Calyx with very short tube ; lobes glabrous, acuminate 

 from an ovate base, "25 in. long, furnished within at the base with a 

 pair of ovate-acute, entire or bifid scales. Corolla-tnhe slightly cylindric 

 at first, then funnel-shaped, -75 in. long; lobes rounded at first, -5 in. 



