Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 495 



acute. Disk with 5 linear-subulate, not capitate, lobes. Ovary of 2 

 villous carpels ; style slender, -03 in. long ; stigma globose, with a long 

 conical tip. Follicles cylindric, divaricate, densely rusty-pubescent. 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 670; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 449. I. affinis, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. & Th. I. latifolius, Herb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 

 1652. Echites affinis, Eoem. & Sch. Syst. IV. 393. Springia indica, 

 Muell. & Van Heurck in Plant. Nov. Van Heurck 143. 



Penang: Cwriis 810, 3082. Province Wellesley ; Ridley 9392. 

 Peeak: Scortechini; Kunstler 181 ; King's Collector 105S1. Malacca: 

 Griffith; Maingay (K.D.) 1075, 1103. Pahang: Ridley 2179. Selangor: 

 Ridley. — Distrib. India (Sylhet and Khasia Hills), Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Celebes, Timor, Philippines. 



28. Aganosma, G. Don. 

 Stout evergreen climbing shrvibs. Leaves opposite. Floivers in 

 many-flowered, terminal or axillary, tomentose or puberulous cymes, 

 large or medium-sized, often sweet-scented, usually white. Calyx 

 5-partite to the base or nearly so ; lobes lanceolate, more or less gland- 

 bearing at the base within. Corolla hjrpocrateriform, lower part of the 

 tube cylindric, upper campanulate or cylindric, broader than the lower, 

 bearing villous longitudinal bands behind the anthers ; lobes broad or 

 narrow, overlapping to the right, twisted more or less to the left. 

 Stamens inserted on the base of the upper part of the corolla-tube ; 

 filaments very short ; anthers sagittate, conniving over and adherent to 

 the stigma ; the cells spurred at the base, upper half only pollen-bearing. 

 Dish cupular or cylindric, 5-lobed. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, in- 

 cluded in or somewhat exsert from the disk, usually hirsute, many- 

 ovuled ; style short, top urn-shaped ; stigma columnar, conical at tip. 

 Fruit of 2 terete, straight or curved, follicular mericarps. Seeds oblong- 

 obovate or linear-obovate, flattened, not beaked, tipped with a deciduous 

 silky coma ; testa thin ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons oblong ; radicle 

 short, superior. — Distrib. India and Malaya ; about 6 species. 



Calyx-glands many, opposite the lobes, which are -25 in. long; 



ovary half-exsert from the disk ; corolla-lobes narrow, linear ; 



leaves with a prominent intramarginal nerve . . . . 1. A. marginata. 



Calyx-glands under -5, alternate with the lobes, which are -To to 



1 in. long; ovary included in the disk; corolla-lobes broad, 



rhomboid; leaves without a prominent intramarginal nerve .. "2. A. calycina. 



1. Aganosma marginata, G. Don Gen. Hist. Dichl. PL IV. 77 (1838). 

 A stout scandent or subscandent shrub ; branches stout, prominently 

 dotted with raised warts ; branchlets slender, brown, lenticellate ; inno- 

 vations glabrous or rusty-pubescent ; nodes, both of branches and 



