Fhrn of the Malayan PeninHula. 497 



2. Aganosma calycina, a. DC. Prodr. VIII. 432 (1844). An im- 

 mense (Scortechini) climbing shrub ; branchlets stout, as thick as a 

 goosequill, ferruginous-puberulous ; nodes faintly ringed. Leaves coriaceo- 

 chartaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong or elliptic-ovate, shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate at the rounded apex, attenuately rounded at base ; 

 glabrous on both sides except for a few sparse hairs beneath ; margins 

 recui-ved ; 3-5 to 6 in. long, 1-5 to 3-5 in. broad : midrib stout, impressed 

 above, raised beneath ; main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, starting at an angle 

 of about 80^ to 85° with the midrib and curving upwards to and along 

 the margin ; secondary nerves few, inconspicuous ; reticulations minutely 

 netted, impressed and prominent beneath ; petiole '5 in. long, articulate. 

 Cymes terminal, sessile, dichotomous, rusty-puberulous, corymbosely 

 flattened, reaching to 5 in. in length and 8 in breadth ; main peduncles 

 1 to 3 in. long, somewhat flattened, stout ; branches similar but shorter 

 and thinner ; pedicels '5 to "75 in. long ; bracts leafy, ovate-acuminate, 

 caducous ; bracteoles lanceolate, similar to cal}Tf-lobes ; buds conical ; 

 flowers large, white, handsome. Calyx-lohes, lanceolate acuminate, "75 

 to 1 in. long, fulvous-tomentose, the inner 3 broadly keeled on the back ; 

 scales minute, subulate, 3 to 5 at the base within and between the 

 lobes. Corolla-tuhQ cylindric, rather stout, lower part narrowed, upper 

 part broad and then slightly narrowed upwards, '4 to -5 in. long, 5- 

 sulcate, pubescent without, ferruginous -villous within in bands behind 

 the stamens ; lobes rhomboid, broad, half glabrous, half tomentose, as 

 long as tube, twisted to the left. Stamens inserted on the broadest part 

 of the tube within ; filaments very short, densely villous ; anthers 

 sagittate, very slender, -3 in. long ; basal spurs somewhat rounded ; con- 

 nective pubescent. Disk glabrous, conical, 5-fiTrrowed and -lobed, -15 in. 

 long, enclosing the ovary. Ovary of 2 carpels, glabrous below, long- 

 villous above ; style slender, enlarged upwards and dilated into a villous 

 lobed cup ; stigma conical, elongate. Fruit not seen. Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 256, and For. Fl. II. 186 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. III. 664. A. Boxhurghii, G. Don Ex. Wight Ic. t. 440. .4. 

 Wallichii, G. Don Gen. Hist. Dichl. PL IV. 77. Echites calycina, 

 Wall. Cat. 1653. E. caryophyllata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 11. 



Peeak : Scortechini 16, from Gunong Chabary ; King's Collector 

 10808.— DiSTRiB. Tavoy. 



29. Tkachelospeemum, Lemaire. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, penninerved. Flowers white or 

 purplish, in lax terminal or pseudo-axillary cymes. Calyx small, 5- 

 partite, wnth 5 to 10 small scales or glands at the base w^ithin. Corolla 

 h}^ocrateriform, the tube cylindric, dilated opposite the stamens, con- 



