494 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



long, linear-falcate, with a twisted sparsely hirsute tip, white-hirsute 

 within. Stamens very small ; anthers "05 in. long, with small spurs. 

 Disk with 5 linear capitate lobes. Ovary of 2 villous carpels ; style 

 slender, -05 in. long ; stigma globose, with a conical tip. Follicles 

 very slender, cylindrical, 3 to 6 in. long, -1 to "15 in. broad, curved, 

 rusty-pubescent at first, afterwards glabrous ; pericarp thin. Seeds 

 linear-cylindric, -4 to -75 in. long, very slender, deeply grooved, scarcely 

 beaked, tipped with a scanty white coma 1 in. long ; testa thin, dark 

 brown ; cotyledons linear, very thin, -3 to "4 in. long, very narrow ; 

 radicle barely -05 in. long. A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 315; Benth. El. 

 Austral. IV. 315 ; Wight Ic. t. 430 ; Wall. Cat. 1674 ; Brandis For. Fl. 

 327 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 XLVI. ii. 256, and For. Fl. II. 186; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 669; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 448 and Suppl. 556 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 142 ; Cooke 

 Fl. Bomb. II. 142 ; Prain Beng. Plants 680. I. radicans, Wall. Cat. 

 1676. I. dasycalyx, Miq. I. c. 449. Echites frutescens, Wall. Cat. 

 1674 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 12. 



Pbeak: Scortechini 2199; King's Collector 820, 7049, 10986.— 

 DiSTBiB. India, Ceylon, Burma, Sumatra, Java, Australia (Queensland). 



2. ICHNOCARPUS ovATiFOLius, A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 435 (1844). A 

 climbing shrub ; branchlets blackish-brown, terete ; innovations slightly 

 rusty-pubescent. Leaves variable, chartaceous ; orbicular ovate or 

 elliptic, obtuse acute or cuspidate at apex, rounded or attenuate or 

 cuneate at base ; glabrous on the upper surface, glabrous and paler on 

 the lower or the midrib, villous ; margins slightly recurved ; 3 to 6 in. 

 long, 1-5 to 3 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above ; main 

 nerves 5 to 6 pairs, curved upwards to and along the margin ; secondary 

 nerves few; reticulations elegantly netted, conspicuous on the under 

 surface of young leaves, scarcely visible in old ones, impressed above as 

 are the main nerves ; petiole slender, usually pubescent, '4 to '6 in. long. 

 Cymes paniculate, up to 5 in. long, terminal and axillary, often forming 

 an elongated, broad, leafy thyrsus at the ends of the branchlets ; the 

 rachises rusty-pubescent or glabrescent ; the cymules densely pubescent ; 

 peduncles variable ; branches trichotomous ; pedicels stout, '05 to '1 in. 

 long ; bracts leafy or at the uppermost nodes ; bracteoles very many, 

 broadly ovate-acute, at the bases of the pedicels ; buds obovate, tip 

 rounded ; flowers white. Calyx campanulate ; tube -05 in. long ; lobes 

 ovate-acute or -acuminate, "06 in. long ; glands none. Corolla-tube 

 •1 in. long, pubescent, cylindric below, then dilated opposite the 

 stamens ; mouth not contracted, but thickened in a fold within ; lobes 

 •15 in. long, linear-falcate, villous within, especially at the tips, much 

 twisted. Stamens very small ; anthers "04 in. long, with small spurs, tip 



