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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



nerves. Floivers in axillary or terminal trichotomous leafy paniculate 

 cymes. Calyx small, 5-partite, glandular or not within. Corolla hypo- 

 crateriform ; the tube cylindric, little dilated opposite the stamens ; the 

 mouth contracted, without scales ; lobes narrow, overlapping to the 

 right, twisted to the left, conical and spirally striate in bud. Stamens 

 inserted below the middle of the tube ; filaments very short ; anthers 

 sagittate, connivent round and adhering to the stigma; the cells shortly 

 spurred at the base. Dish annular or cupular, entire or undulate. 

 Ovary of 2 distinct carpels sunk in the disk and attached to it by their 

 backs at the base, many-ovuled ; style very short ; stigma thick, coni- 

 cal, bi-lobed. Fruit of 2 divaricate acuminate follicular mericarps. 

 Seeds few, ovoid or oblong, compressed, beaked, tipped with a long 

 coma which extends down the upper part of the beak more or less ; 

 albumen usually copious ; cotyledons ovate, subcordate, flat ; radicle 

 superior. — Disteib. India and Malaya ; about 7 species. 



Flowers in many-branched, many-flowered, cymes, usually 6-in. 

 long or more ; buds under -25 in. long ; leaves coriaceous, more 

 than 4 in. long and l-o in. broad, with prominent nerves : — 



Main nerves 12 to 15 pairs, about "5 in. apart ; corolla-lobes 



villous within and at the throat, over -1 in. long; follicles 



with thick pericarp ; seeds obovoid, beak -25 in. long, the coma 



shortly decurrent only 



Main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, about -75 to 1 in. apart ; corolla- 

 lobes nearly glabrous within and at the throat, '05 in long ; 



follicles with thin pericarp; seeds oblong, beak 1 in. long, 



the coma decurrent on the upper half . . 

 Flowers in few-branched, few-flowered, generally axillary cymes, 

 usually under 1 in. long ; buds at least -5 in. long ; leaves char- 

 taceous, usually under 4 in. long and 1-5 in. broad, with slender 

 nerves ; follicles with thin pericarp ; the seeds obovoid, the 

 beak over 1 in. long, coma decurrent on the upper half, very 

 long .. 



Flowers in branched, corymbose, terminal cymes reaching 3 in. 

 in length; buds -4 to -5 in. long; leaves coriaceous, under 3-5 in. 

 long and 1-75 in. broad, with nerves nearly at right angles to the 

 midrib 



Flowers in axillary, paniculate, branched cymes reaching 2-5 in. 

 in length; buds -22.5 in. long; leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, reaching 3-5 to 5-5 in. long and 1 to 1-5 in. broad, with 

 nerves at about 7.5° with the midrib .. .. .. 5. A. lanceolatum. 



1. A. paniculatvm. 



2. A. CandoUeanuvi 



3. A. pauciflorum. 



4. A. Wrayi. 



1. Anodendron paniculatum, a. DC. Prodr. VIII. 444 (1844). A 

 very large climbing shrub with greyish-brown bark; branchlets stout, 

 rather fleshy, dark brown, glabrous, terete. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; 

 ovate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly and abruptly acuminate at apex, 



