Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 471 



anthers, pubescent on the back. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style thick, 

 rough ; stigma cylindric with a short fringe below and a point at the 

 apex. Fruit not seen. 



Peeak : at Dipong, Scortechini 1818. 



4. Strophanthus singapoeianus, Gilg in Engl. Monog. 11 (1903). 

 A straggling shrub ; branchlets slender, brown, thickly covered with 

 white lenticels. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, abruptly and shortly 

 acuminate at apex, acute at base ; dull on the upper surface and dark 

 brown when dry, paler on the lower ; margins crispately undulate, 

 recurved ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in, broad ; midrib stout, impressed 

 above, prominently raised beneath ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, starting 

 at an angle of about 70° and curving upwards to meet in an intramar- 

 ginal deeply looped nerve ; secondary nerves and reticulations well- 

 marked l^eneath ; petiole -25 to 4 in. long, bordered by the decurrent 

 margins of the blade. Cymes dichotomous on a peduncle "25 to 1 in. 

 long, reaching 2 in. in length and about 2 in. broad at the corymbose 

 top ; branch peduncles and pedicels rather stout, of varying length, 

 pedicels greatly enlarged in fruit ; bracts and bracteoles in pairs at all 

 nodes, ovate-acute, about '15 in. long ; buds clavate, flowers purple. 

 Galyx-lohes ovate-acute, glabrous, "1 in. long, inner three furnished with 

 2 to 4 small glands at the base inside. Corolla-tube cylindric, some- 

 times a little constricted at the mouth, '25 in. long; lobes as long as tube, 

 ovate-acute, campanulate ; corona-scales linear-falcate, cleft to the base, 

 •1 in. long. Anthers produced in slender soft filiform awns ; filaments 

 pubescent, flattened, decurrent about half-way down the corolla-tube. 

 Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style pubescent. Follicles 8 in. long by -5 to 

 •75 in. broad, base broad, middle slightly turgid, then tapering to a long 

 hard curved point ; divergent so as to lie in the same straight line ; peri- 

 carp terete, smooth. Seeds oblong-lanceolate, '75 to 1 in. long, -1 in. 

 broad, pointed above, produced below^ in a long feathery plumose point ; 

 the coma white, soft; testa *pale-brown, puberulous. S. brevicauclatus, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1302 (1850) ; Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. III. 656 ; Kurz For. Fl. 

 III. 191 and Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XL VI. ii. 257 ; Pax in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. XV. 380 ; Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mns. Paris, 3^ ser. V. 259. 

 Gercocoma singaporiana, Wall. Cat. 1623 ; G. Don Gen. Hist. Dichl. 

 PL IV. 83 ; A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 432 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 445. 



Malacca : Griffith ; Maingay (K.D.) 1072 ; Derry 528. Singapoee : 

 Wallich 1623 ; Lohh ; Kurz; Ridley 6040, 9149 ; Kiiig's Collector 1191.— 

 DiSTEiB. Mergui (?), Borneo {Raviland 1770, Beccari 797 ; Motley). 



