470 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



faint reddish stripes. Calyx-lohQ^ subulate-lanceolate, "5 in. long, re- 

 flexed in flower, minutely pubescent ; scales at base very minute, often 

 wanting. Gorolla-tuhQ cylindric-funnel-shaped, as long as the calyx- 

 lobes ; lobes ovate acuminate, produced into slender tails reaching 2 to 3 

 in. long ; corona-scales cleft to the base, each half falcate acuminate, 

 about -15 to "2 in. long. Anthers very narrow, produced in long slender 

 soft awns up to '5 in. long, the awns twisted together in the flower, 

 connective on the back and lower part of awns minutely pubescent ; 

 filaments broad, decurrent half-way down the tube. Ovary glabrous, 

 depressed ; style slender, slightly pubescent. Fruit not known. Pax 

 in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XV. 378 ; Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3^ 

 ser. V. 268 ; Gilg in Engl. Monog.. 16 ; Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. III. 655 ; Miq. 

 El. Ind. Bat. II. 442 ; Prain Beng. Plants 677. S. dichotomus. Wall. Cat. 

 1641 ; Wight Ic. t. 599 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 759 ; Grab, in Maund Bot. 

 III. t. 150. S. caudatus, Kurz Eor. El. II. 193. Nerium caudatum, 

 Eoxb. El. Ind. II. 9 ; Burm. El. Ind. t. 26. 



JuNKSEYLON IsLAND (Tongka) : Curtis 2931. Teang : King's Col- 

 lector 1387 or 1397 (?).— Disteib. India (Circars, Khasia Hills, Chitta- 

 gong and Tenasserim). 



3. Steophanthus peeakensis, Scortechini MS. in Herb. Calc. A 

 slender climber; branchlets slender, glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous when green, membranous when dry, glabrous ; elliptic- 

 oblong, acuminate at apex, acute at base ; both surfaces somewhat pale, 

 the lower paler ; margins crispate, slightly recurved ; 2 to 3-5 in. long, 

 ■75 to 1 in. broad; midrib thick, impressed above, prominently raised 

 beneath ; main nerves very obscure, 10 to 12 pairs, leaving the midrib at 

 an angle of about 70° and nearly straight, joining near the margin in a 

 very faint intramarginal looped nerve ; reticulations not visible ; petiole 

 •25 in. long, channelled above and bordered by the decurrent margins of 

 the blade. Cymes slender, few-flowered, about 1 in. long and 1 in, in 

 diam., trichotomous ; peduncle -25 to -5 in. long ; secondary peduncles 

 rather shorter, bearing 3 terminal flowers ; pedicels slender, pubescent, 

 about •! in. long ; bracts and bracteoles in pairs at all nodes, ovate and 

 dark red at base, long acuminate, -15 to '2 in. long ; buds slender, fusi- 

 form ; flowers yellowish-green. Calyx-lohes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 •2 in. long, the three inner with two minute obtuse scales at the base 

 within. Gorolla-tvihe urceolate, constricted at the mouth, as long as the 

 calyx-lobes ; lobes ovate-cordate at base, long acuminate with a blunt tip, 

 •5 to "7 in. long ; corona-scales cleft to the base, scarcely more than a 

 short crenate fold. Stamens included ; filaments short, decurrent half- 

 way to the base of the tube and ending in an obtuse spur ; anthers 

 sagittate, the connective produced in a soft pubescent tip as long as the 



