Flora of the Mnhjian Penln.si(la. 485 



albumen none ; cotyledons oblong ; radicle slioit, superior. — Distrib. 

 One species, from India to China. 



Ehynchodia Wallichii, Benth. in Gen. PI. II. 720 (1876). A large 

 climbing shrub ; branches distantly tubercled ; branchlets glaucescent, 

 rough, lenticellate, the scars of fallen leaves prominent. Leaves mem- 

 branous ; elliptic-ovate or -oblong, cuspidately or caudately acuminate 

 at apex, cuneate sometimes unequally at base or occasionally rounded 

 or even cordate ; glabrous and shining above, glabrous or puberulous 

 beneath ; 5 to 9 in. long, 2 to 4 in. broad ; midrib slender, raised 

 beneath ; main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, starting at an angle of about 

 50° with the midrib and curving upwards to and along the margin, 

 where they anastomose to form a looped intramarginal nerve, raised 

 beneath as are the few secondary nerves and the rather prominent 

 transverse reticulations ; petiole "75 to 1 in. long, slender, grooved, with 

 small auricle-like stipular glands at the base. Cymes lax, axillary or 

 subterminal, di-tri-chotomous, puberulous, reaching 5 in. long and about 

 7 in. in breadth ; peduncles 1 to 3 in. long, slender, angled, puberulous 

 or glabrous ; branches long, slender, ultimate cymules subumbellate ; 

 pedicels 'd to "5 in. long ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, ciliate, caducous ; 

 bracteoles at the bases of the pedicels, ovate-lanceolate, scarious, -1 in. 

 long ; buds clavate with conical tip ; fiow^ers white tinged with pink. 

 Calyx campanulate ; tube '1 to '15 in. long, furnished with many broad 

 bifid scales at the base within ; lobes linear-oblong, ciliate, obtuse, 

 as long as the tube, margins refiexed. Corolla-tuhe broadly inflated 

 opposite the stamens, 5-angled, -25 in. long, villous within, the throat 

 narrowed; lobes obovate-falcate, about -5 in. long, slightly villous on 

 the inner face. Anthers -15 in. long ; spurs very slender. Follicles 

 12 to 18 in. long, pendulous. Seeds ovate-oblong ; body -5 in. long ; 

 beak very slender, as long as body, crowned by a white silky coma 

 1-5 in. long ; testa leathery, keeled on one side ; cotyledons fleshy, 

 flattened, -3 in. long, -1 to -15 in. broad; radicle thick, cylindric. Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. III. 667. Bhyncospermum Wallichii and Pi. ellipticum, 

 A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 431. Echites rMjncosperma, Wall. PL As. Ear. 

 I. 43, t. 49 ; Cat. 1665. E. elliptica, Wall. Cat. 1666. E. verticalis, 

 Herb. Ham. Cercocoma Wallichii, Miq. Fi. Ind. Bat. II. 445 ; Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 255, and For. Fl. II. 187. 



Kedah : on Langkawi Island, Curtis 3203. Perak : Scortechini 

 1774 ; Ki7ig's Collector 5635, 8790.— Distrib. India (Sikkim Himalaya, 

 Assam), Burma, Tonkin. 



25. x\nodendron, a. DC. 

 Large glabrous climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, with distant 



