472 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Subtribe 3. — Echitidin^. 

 20. Ueceola, Eoxb. 

 Large climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, penninerved. Floioers 

 small, in dense corymbosely panicled cymes at the ends of the branch- 

 lets. Calyx 5-partite, without glands within ; lobes oblong or linear. 

 Corolla urceolate or subglobose ; throat naked ; lobes 5, short, valvate, 

 subin duplicate. Stamens attached to the base of the corolla, included ; 

 filaments very short ; anthers sagittate, scarcely acuminate, connivent 

 around the stigma and adhering to it at their middle ; cells produced at 

 the base in empty spurs. Disk cupular or annular, truncate or shortly 

 5-lobed. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, longer than the disk, many-ovuled ;' 

 style short ; stigma oblong-conic, subannulate at the base. Fruit of 2 

 spreading follicular mericarps, thick and acuminate or elongate, con- 

 tracted or not between the seeds. Seeds oblong or linear, compressed, 

 villous ; tip contracted, bearded with long persistent brown hairs and 

 crowned with a long white deciduous coma ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons 

 Hat, foliaceous ; radicle short. — Disteib. Malay Peninsula and Archi- 

 pelago ; about 7 to 8 species. 



Follicles straight, even, terete, slender, not constricted between 

 the seeds : — 

 Follicles in one line or very slightly curved either way : — 

 Leaves rusty-pubescent beneath ; calyx-lobes linear, -1 to 

 •15 in. long, much recurved . . . . .. 1. U. clastica. 



Leaves nearly or quite glabrous beneath : — 



Leaves some^Yhat glaucous beneath ; calyx-lobes broad 



obtuse, little recurved ; corolla urceolate .. ..2. JJ. Maingayi. 



Leaves reddish-brown beneath ; calyx-lobes ovate, very 



small, under -Oo in. long ; corolla globose . . . . d. U. brachysepala. 



Follicles recurved ; leaves red-brown beneath when dry ; calyx- 

 lobes longer than corolla . . . . . . . . i. U. malaccensis. 



Follicles poniard-shaped, thickened in the lower part, long- 

 pointed above ; calyx-lobes very short ; leaves red-brown when 

 dry . . , . . . . . . . .. o. U. lucida. 



Follicles torulose, thickened opposite the seeds and constricted 



between them ; leaves red-brown when dry . . . . 6. Z7. torulosa. 



Species imperfectly known : 7. U. reticulata. 8. U. sp. 



1. Ueceola elastica, Eoxb. in As. Ees. V. 167 (1799) loithfig. {excl. 

 fruit). A large climbing shrub; branches thick, with dark brown bark; 

 branchlets slender, often fiexuose, innovations pubescent. Leaves cori- 

 aceous, ovate or elliptic-ovate, abruptly acuminate at apex, rounded 

 at base ; upper surface glabrous except on the midrib and main nerves, 

 lower rusty-pul^escent, but reddish brown when dry ; margin strongly 



