Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 481 



nent; petiole stout, channelled, about -2 in. long. Inflorescence termi- 

 nal, or axillary to the upper leaves, rusty-pubescent, densely coiymbosely 

 paniculate, sessile, reaching 6 in. in length, and about 4 to 5 in. in 

 breadth ; main peduncles 1 to 1-5 in. long, flattened, stout ; branches 

 opposite or verticellate, also flattened, as are the minor and much 

 shorter branches ; pedicels slender, about -15 in. long ; bracts leafy ; 

 bracteoles small, ovate, acute ; buds broadly clavate. Calyx verj- 

 small ; lobes ovate, acute, pubescent without, glabrous within, -03 in. 

 long ; scales 3 to 5 to each lobe, obscure. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube 

 rather slender, minutely pubescent without, -15 in. long ; lobes ovate- 

 oblique, twisted to the right, glabrous. Anthers apiculate ; filaments 

 very short. Ovary almost glabrous ; style short, obconic ; stigma 

 conical. Follicles slender, 11 to 14 in. long, nearly at right angles 

 and curved inwards, distantly torulose, the spaces 1 to 1'25 in. long ; 

 the swellings ellipsoid, -5 in. long ; interspaces less near the tip ; peri- 

 carp bro^^^l, minutely rusty-puberulous at first, afterwards giabrescent. 

 Seeds 10 to 12, -4 in. long, oblong, curved, obtuse at the tip, glabrous, 

 dark reddish brown, the tip with a tuft of tawny bristles surrounding a 

 white silky coma 1 in. long ; integuments 2, the outer hard. 

 Penang : on Government Hill, Curtis 158 ; Hullett 159. 



22. EcDYSANTHERA, Hook. & Am. 



Glabrous climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, acuminate with distant 

 main nerves. Flowers small, white or pink, in terminal or axillary lax 

 trichotomous paniculate cymes. Calyx small, deeply 5-fid, with few or 

 no glandular scales at the base within. Corolla suburceolate, the throat 

 naked; lobes 5, very short, obtuse, overlapping to the right, hardly 

 twisted. Stamens inserted at the base of the coroUa-tube, included ; 

 filaments short ; anthers sagittate, conniving over and adhering to the 

 stigma ; cells produced at the base in empty spurs. Disk annular. 

 Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, longer than the disk ; style short ; stigma 

 obpyriform ; ovules many. Fritit of 2 divaricate, terete, acuminate 

 follicular mericarps. Seeds few, oblong or linear, compressed, little 

 contracted at the apex and crowned by a persistent ring of short hairs 

 and a long deciduous coma ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons oblong or 

 ovate, leafy; radicle short. — Disteib. India, Malaya and Southern 

 China ; about 4 or 5 species. 



Cymes terminal, branches rather stout ; leaves with main 



nerves very oblique {io°) to the midrib . . . . ..I.E. micrantha. 



Cymes lateral, branches slender; leaves with main nerves at 



about 60° with the midrib . . . . . . .. 2. E. multiflora. 



