Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 479 



glabrous and shining on the upper surface, somewhat paler on the lower, 

 glabrous except for tufts in the axils of the main nerves, not always 

 found ; margins slightly recurved ; 3 to 5 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; 

 midrib slender, impressed above, raised beneath ; main nerves 5 to 7 

 pairs, arched upwards to and along the margin, where they anastomose, 

 rather indistinct, as are the secondary nerves and reticulations ; petiole 

 short, -1 to -2 in. long, stout. C'?/»te-panicles terminal or axillary to the 

 upper leaves, trichotomous, glabrous or slightly puberulous ; branches 

 spreading, slender ; terminal cymules subumbellately corymbose ; bracts 

 leafy ; bracteoles very small, ovate-acute ; buds oblong, clavate ; flowers 

 white, fragrant. Calyx-lobes ovate, ciliate, puberulous outside, -05 in. 

 long, with minute, inconspicuous, subulate glands at the base inside. 

 Corolla campanulate ; tube '125 in. long, puberulous without; lobes 

 rather longer than the tube, rotate, twisted to the right, obtuse. 

 Anthers very small, apiculate, the spurs long ; filaments short, with a 

 broad base. Ovary minutely hairy ; style obconical. Follicles very 

 slender, flexuous, 6 to 12 in. long, glabrous, acuminate, diverging at up 

 to 60° and then curving to run parallel to each other ; swellings from 

 •75 to 1'25 in. apart, short ; pericarp thin, smooth ; placenta enlarged 

 opposite the seeds. Seeds oblong, concave on the ventral surface, 4 to 

 •5 in. long, ending in a tuft of brown bristles, and a silky coma about 

 1 in. long ; testa pubescent, thin ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons ovate, 

 •15 in. long, very thin, foliaceous ; radicle ^125 in. long, slender, 

 cylindric. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 255 and For. Fl. II. 

 660 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 660. Ecdysanthera glandulifera, A. DC. 

 Prodi-. VIII. 443 ; Wight Ic. t. 1307 {E. Griffithii in text) ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 432. E. barbata, Miq. I.e. 431. Echites ? glandulifera and 

 monilifera, Wall. Cat. 1659, 1660 ; G. Don Gen. Hist. Dichl. PL IV. 75. 

 Parsonsia barbata, Bl. Bijd. 1042. 



Penang : Curtis 1142. Malacca : Griffith ; Maingay (K.D.) 1077, 

 1093; Cantley ; Derry 920, 943. Singapoee : Wallich 1660; Lobb.— 

 DisTEiB. Burma, Andaman Islands, Java, Borneo {Haviland 1993, 

 2056, &c. ; Motley 776), Philippines, Cambodia. 



2. Parameeia polyneuea, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. III. 660 (1882). 

 A slender climbing shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence and innova- 

 tions ; branches stout, with dark-bro^vn, rough, lenticeUate, horizontally 

 ridged bark ; branchlets slender, minutely tawny puberulous. Leaves 

 membranous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong or -obovate, abruptly short- 

 acuminate at apex, narrowed and at length rounded at base ; dark 

 brown and shining above, paler beneath, and very red-brown and 

 reticulate when dry, puncticulate ; margins slightly recurved ; 3 to 6 in. 

 long, 1-25 to 2-5 in. broad; midrib prominent on the lower, impressed 



