480 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



on the tipper surface ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, the lowest pair very 

 near the edge, starting at an angle of about 65° with the midrib, 

 curving upwards to and along the margin, where they anastomose, 

 raised beneath, as are the numerous secondary nerves and the promi- 

 nent transverse reticvilations ; main nerves usually with a tuft of hair 

 in their axils ; petiole •! to -2 in. long, articulate near the base. Inflo- 

 rescence paniculate, terminal, sessile, trichotomous, 4- to 5-pinnate, 

 tawny-puberulous, usually about 6 in. long and 6 to 8 in. broad ; 

 primary branches 1"5 to 2'5 in. long, flattened ; subsequent branches 

 gradually shorter ; pedicels short, -1 in. long, slender ; cymules corym- 

 bose ; bracts leafy ; bracteoles very minute, ovate ; buds shortly clavate ; 

 flowers white, with a pink throat. Galyx-tnhe short ; lobes ovate, 

 acute, ciliate, about -04 in. long ; glandular scales minute, generally 

 subulate. Gorolla-inhe campanulate, contracted at the base, •! in. long, 

 glabrous within, sparsely pubescent without ; lobes ovate-oblique, twisted 

 to the right, rotate in flower, as long as tube. Anthers very small, with 

 a triangular membranous tip. Dish faintly 5-lobed. Ovary villous ; 

 style obconical ; stigma conoidal. Follicles slender, straight, 20 to 

 24 in. long, glabrous, acuminate, diverging at 60° to 90° and then 

 slightly curving to lie parallel ; the swellings opposite the seeds elongate, 



1 in. long and about 2 in. apart from centre to centre ; pericarp thin, 

 smooth ; placenta enlarged opposite the seeds which embrace it. Seeds 

 fusiform, 1 to 1'25 in. long, concave on the ventral surface, ending in a 

 somewhat dilated cup-shaped tip, which bears a silky white coma up to 



2 in. long ; testa thin, minutely pubescent ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons 

 oblong, -2 in. long ; radicle cylindric, as long as cotyledons. 



Penang: Curtis 1455, 3025. Perak: Wray 2308,3459; Scortechini 

 58, 1838 ; King's Collector 3337, 3640, 5687, 7491. Malacca: Griffith; 

 Maingay (K.D.) 1078 ; Hervey ; Derry 1013, 1206 ; Goodenough 1241 ; 

 Bidley 10790. Singapore: Bidley 2713, 2721; Cantley 140; Hullett 

 849, — DiSTRiB. Tenasserim (Lobb) ; Borneo [Haviland 1598, 1796 ; 

 Fraser 255) ; Sumatra {Forbes 2951). 



3. Parameria densiplora, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1520 (1886). A 

 shrub ; branchlets stout, about -25 in. in diameter, fistular, densely 

 rusty-tomentose. Leaves chartaceous ; obovate, oblong or oblanceolate, 

 abruptly acuminate at apex, cuneate and at last rounded at base, 

 glabrous and shining on the upper surface, sparsely pilose on the lower 

 surface, especially on the nerves ; margins recurved ; 5 to 8 in. long, 

 1*75 to 2"5 in. broad ; midrib stout ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, at an 

 angle of about 30° with the midrib ; at first nearly straight, then 

 curving upwards to anastomose near the margin, impressed above ; 

 secondary nerves short ; reticulations transverse, distant, not promi- 



