484 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



joining tiie irregular transverse reticulations, all much raised beneath ; 

 petiole stout, -5 to 1-5 in. long. Panicles up to 10 in. long and 8 in. 

 broad, pubescent ; peduncles stout, 3 to 4 in. long ; branches also stout, 

 angled or flattened, more or less racemose ; bracteoles ovate, acute, 

 persistent ; pedicels about "3 to "4 in. long, usually shorter than the 

 calyces ; buds clavate, the tip acute ; flovs^ers white. Calyx tubular, 

 wider than the corolla-tube and less than half its length ; the mouth 

 with 5 short rounded or subacute teeth. Corolla 3 in. or more across ; 

 tube '75 to 1 in. long, villous within in 5 bands between the stamens; 

 lobes spreading, obovate-cuneate. Anthers -5 in. long. Follicles 12 to 

 18 in. long, straight, boldly 3-angled, the tips incurved, -75 to 1 in. 

 broad ; pericarp woody. Seeds about 1 in. long, ovate below, narrowed 

 half-way up into a beak and again expanded to receive the coma, which 

 is softly white silky and 2-5 in. long ; albumen very thin ; cotyledons 

 ovate-oblong, thick, -5 in. lojig ; radicle cylindric, slender, -25 in. long. 

 A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 430; Wight Ic. t. 432 ; Brandis For. M. 328; Kurz 

 in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 257, and For. Fl. II. 187 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 444 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 661; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. 

 III. 138; Cooke Bomb. Fl. II. 139 ; Prain Beng. Plants 678. C. mollis, 

 Miq. I.e. Echites macrophylla, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 13 ; Wall. Cat. 1657. 

 E. grandis, Wall. Cat. 1658 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147, " BeUtta- 

 kdka-kodi," Eheede Hort. Mai. IX. tt. 5, 6. 



Penang: Bidley 3441; Ctirtis 832. Perak : Wray 2183, 2685, 

 3661 ; Scortechini 921 ; King's Collector 3636, 6000, 7304, 10574. 

 Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 1074; Derry 543. — Distrib. India, Ceylon, 

 Malay Archipelago. 



24. Ehynchodia, Benth. 



Large climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, membranous, broad, penni- 

 nerved. Flotvers in lax, broad, axillary or subterminal, paniculate 

 cymes. Calyx 5-partite or -fid ; lobes about as long as tube ; glandular 

 scales many. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube enlarged opposite the 

 stamens, contracted at the throat, villous ; lobes large, twisted, obliquely 

 obcuneate or obovate-falcate, twisted to the left, overlapping to the 

 right. Stamens inserted on the middle of the tube ; filaments broad, 

 short ; anthers sagittate, conniving round and adhering to the stigma ; 

 cells with narrow incurved spurs. Disk annular, 5-fid. Ovary of 

 2 distinct carpels, longer than the disk ; style slender, with an ovate 

 truncate top ; stigma columnar. Fruit of 2 narrow parallel com- 

 pressed follicular mericarps. Seeds ovate or oblong, compressed, pro- 

 duced in a slender beak which is crowned by a deciduous coma ; 



