Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 487 



cuneate and rounded at base ; both surfaces glabrous ; margins slightly 

 recurved ; 4 to 8 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. broad; midrib stout, impressed and 

 keeled above, raised beneath; main nerves 12 to 15 pairs, parallel, '4 to 

 ■6 in. apart along the midrib, starting at an angle of from 60° to 70° 

 w^ith the midrib and arching upwards to and along the margin where 

 they anastomose ; secondary nerves few, short, between the main nerves ; 

 reticulations transverse, conspicuous only in young leaves when dry; 

 petiole -5 in. long, stout, slightly winged. Cymes axillary and terminal, 

 repeatedly trichotomously branched, reaching about 10 in. in length and 

 6 in. in breadth, glabrous; peduncles slender, angled, '5 to 1 in. long; 

 successive branchings similar but shorter; ultimate cymules 3-flowered; 

 bracts similar to the leaves and gradually smaller; bracteoles ovate 

 acute, in pairs at the bases of the upper cyme-branches and of the 

 pedicels, which are about -05 to "1 in. long; buds conical, striated spirally 

 by the twisted lobes of the corolla ; flowers white or pale yellow. Galyx- 

 lobes ovate, rounded, ciliate, the margins somewhat scarious, "06 in. 

 long; scales none or very minute. Gorolla-t\xhe cylindric, dilated op- 

 posite the stamens and then contracted at the throat, -06 in. long ; lobes 

 oblong falcate, villous within and at the throat, -1 to 425 in. long, 

 twisted sharply to the left. Anthers sagittate, acuminate, '04 in. long; 

 spurs short. Disk cupular, entire, undulate, nearly enclosing the 

 adherent glabrous carpels. Style almost none; stigma conical with an 

 annular base. Follicles hard, woody, divergent in one line, 3 to 6 in. 

 long, '5 to '75 in. broad near the base and thence narrowed to the blunt 

 tip. Seeds few, obovoid, flattened, '5 to 1 in. long; beak -25 in. long, 

 slender, slightly broadened at the tip, and bearing a 2 in. long white- 

 silky spreading coma which extends a short way down the tip ; testa 

 dark brown, thin ; albumen copious ; cotyledons oblong, rounded, 4 in. long 

 by "25 in. broad, prominently nerved; radicle cylindric, 45 to '2 in. long. 

 Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. 

 ii. 255, and For. Fl. II. 188; Wight Ic. t. 1309 (fruit and seeds only); 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 668; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 454; Trimen Fl. 

 Ceyl. III. 141 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 141 ; Prain Beng. Plants 679. 

 Echites ijaniculata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 17 ; Wight Ic. t. 396. E. coriacea, 

 Wall. Gat. 1586. E. manubriata and E. polyantha, Wall. Gat. 1663, 

 1664. ^' Kaka-kodi," Eheede Hort. Mai. IX. t. 8. 



JuNKSEYLON (Tongka) : at Puket, Curtis 2933. Penang : Curtis 

 1740. — DiSTEiB. Western India, Geylon, Eastern Bengal, Burma, Malay 

 Archipelago, Philippines. 



2. Anodendeon Candolleanum, Wight Ic. t. 1309 (1850) (ex- 

 chiding fruit and seeds). A very large glaljrous climbing shrub ; 

 branches stout, rather fleshy, somewhat angular, light brown ; branch- 



