488 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



lets terete, darker. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic, abruptly cuspidate 

 acuminate at apex, cuneate or rounded at base ; pale beneath, glabrous 

 on both surfaces, margin recurved ; in old leaves slightly cartilaginous ; 

 5 to 9 in. long, 2 to 5 in. broad ; midrib stout, impressed and keeled on 

 the upper, raised on the lower, surface ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, the 

 lowest near the margin, the rest parallel, yellowish, very stout and 

 prominent, about -75 to 1 in. apart along the midrib in old leaves, 

 raised above, starting at from 75° to 80° with the midrib and curving 

 only near the margin and along it ; secondary nerves few ; reticulations 

 transverse, not prominent, impressed when dry ; petiole 1'5 to 2 in. 

 long, stout, twisted, keeled above. Cymes terminal and axillary, re- 

 peatedly 3-chotomously branched, reaching about 9 in. in length and 4 to 

 5 in. in breadth ; peduncles terete, 1 to 1"5 in. long ; branch peduncles 

 long, slender, somewhat flattened ; ultimate cymules in corymbose 

 clusters ; pedicels •! to -15 in. long ; bracts leafy ; bracteoles ovate, acute, 

 scarious, very small, caducous, in pairs at the nodes and below the 

 pedicels ; buds conical, spirally striate ; flowers reddish or reddish- 

 brown. Galyx-lohe^ ovate, somewhat acute ; the margins scarious, not 

 ciliate, "05 in. long; scales 0. 6'oro^^a-tube cylindrical, scarcely dilated, 

 •05 in. long ; lobes oblong falcate, glabrous except the slightly puberulous 

 mouth, -05 in. long, twisted sharply to the left. Anthers sagittate, 

 acute, '04 in. long ; spur short. Disk cupular, entire, undulate, nearly 

 enclosing the glabrous carpels. Style short, slender; stigma conical 

 vdth an annular base. Follicles slender, straight, 6 to 7 in. long, -4 in. 

 broad at the broadest one-third of the length up, long-acuminate, 

 slightly turned backwards ; pericarp chartaceous, smooth. Seeds oblong, 

 flattened, the margins incurved, about 1 in. long, produced in a slender 

 beak of the same length, the upper half of which is furnished with a 

 white silky coma 2 to 2-5 in. long ; testa thin, dark brown ; albumen 

 copious ; cotyledons ovate, acute, "75 in. long, -25 in. broad, prominently 

 nerved; radicle '2 to "25 in. long, cylindric, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 669 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 455. A. ruhescens, Teysm. & Binnend. Cat. 

 Hort. Bogor. 



Penang: West Hill, Curtis 2258. Peeak: King's Collector 5558, 

 6516, 7900, 8702. Malacca: Cap. Wight; Maingay (K.D.) 1087.— 

 DisTKiB. Borneo. 



3. Anodendeon paucifloeum, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 669 (1882). 

 A climbing shrub ; branches smooth glabrous ; branchlets terete, dark 

 brown. Leaves chartaceous ; oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtusely 

 acuminate at apex, cuneately attenuate at base ; glabrous on both sur- 

 faces, greenish above and reddish-brown beneath when dry; margins 

 thin, pale when di-y or cartilaginous ; 3 to 4 occasionally to 5 in. long. 



