498 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



stricted at the mouth and sometimes almost closed with the folds ; 

 lobes 5, oblique, twisted to the left, overlapping to the right. Stamens 

 inserted above the middle of the tube, included or the apices shortly 

 exsert ; filaments very short, broad ; anthers sagittate, shortly acuminate, 

 connivent around the stigma and adhering to it ; the cells produced 

 below in shai'p spurs. Disk annular, truncate or 5-lobed. Ovary of 2 

 carpels, longer than the disk ; style filiform ; stigma columnar, base 

 shortly ringed, tip conical ; ovules very numerous. Fruit of 2 

 elongate incurved follicular mericarps. Seeds linear, not beaked, 

 crowned at the apex with a long dense coma ; albumen copious ; 

 cotyledons linear, flat ; radicle short, superior. — Disteib. India, Malaya 

 and Eastern Asia as far as Japan ; about 8 species. 



Teachelospeemum Cuetisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing 

 shrub ; branchlets terete, slender, uppermost with innovations and 

 inflorescence tawny-villous ; nodes with a prominent pubescent ridge. 

 Leaves membranous ; elliptic or elliptic-ovate, abruptly acuminate at 

 apex, auriculately cordate at base ; strigosely hispid on both surfaces 

 especially on the nerves, finally glabrous ; 3 to 5 in. long, 2 to 3 in. 

 broad ; midrib slender, impressed and keeled in old leaves ; main nerves 



8 to 10 pairs, the lowest pair small deflexed, the rest at about 50° to 60° 

 with the midrib, curved upwards to meet in an inconspicuous looped 

 intramarginal nerve, and joined by the prominent transverse reticu- 

 lations ; petiole -3 to -5 in. long, tawny-villous. Cymes terminal, sessile, 

 corymbose, tawny- villous, up to 6 in. long and 8 in. in diam. ; main 

 branches 3 to 5 ; cymules congested ; pedicels short, •! to -2 in. long ; 

 bracts leafy, caducous; bracteoles linear- subulate, densely tawny-villous 

 at the joints and the bases of the pedicels ; buds clavate, apex conoidal ; 

 flowers white, very sweet-scented. Calyx-\ohe& linear-lanceolate, slightly 

 villous without, •! in. long, longer than the tube, with small subulate 

 scales at the base between the lobes. C'o?'o//rt-tube narrowed below, 

 then dilated opposite the stamens, then gradually narrowed to the con- 

 stricted mouth, -5 to '6 in. long in all, glabrous within ; lobes obliquely 

 triangular-spathulate, dentate at apex, -^ to '5 in. long, twisted to the 

 left, glabrous. Stamens inserted at or a little below the middle of the 

 tube ; filaments stout, short, rugose, decurrent below ; anthers sagittate, 

 membranously apiculate ; spurs as long as or longer than the pollen- 

 bearing cells, slender, inciu-ved below. Disk annular, 5-lobed, fleshy ; 

 lobes slightly emarginate. Ovary of 2 carpels, villous above, rounded ; 

 style slender, gradually enlarged ; stigma columnar, obscurely angled, 

 with a short spreading ring below and conical point. Follicles 8 to 



9 in. long, -25 in. broad, somewhat flattened, divergent at about right 

 angles and curved inwards to an acute tip; pericai'p scabrous-puberulous. 



