500 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Leaves not tufted in the nerve axils, sparsely strigose-hiisute 

 beneath ; flower-buds over 1 in. long ; corolla-lobes squared 

 at tip . . . . . . . . .. A. E. Ridleyi. 



1. Epigynum perakensb, King & Gamble, n. sp. A large climbing 

 shrub ; branchlets slender, reddish-brown, terete, uppermost and 

 innovations minutely puberulous ; nodes ringed. Leaves membranous ; 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate at apex, acute- 

 cuneate rhomboid or almost rounded at base ; glabrous on both sur- 

 faces except for tufts of hair in the axils of the main nerves beneath ; 

 margins slightly recurved ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1-5 to 2*5 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender, pale, raised beneath ; main nerves 6 to 7 pairs, prominently 

 raised beneath and pale, at from 50° to 70° with the midrib, nearly 

 straight, meeting in a widely looped intramarginal nerve ; secondary 

 nerves few; reticulations irregular, scanty, prominent; petiole '25 to 

 •5 in. long, twisted, articulate. Cymes terminal or axillary, crowded, 

 grey-tomentose, trichotomous, up to about 1-5 to 2 in. long and broad ; 

 peduncles none or short ; branch peduncles short ; pedicels about '15 in. 

 long ; bracts leafy, caducous ; bracteoles many, usually 2 to 3 to each 

 pedicel, ovate-acuminate, similar to the calyx-lobes ; buds clavate, 

 twisted, -5 to -75 in. long ; flowers white. Calyx small, lobes 

 ovate-acuminate, -075 in. long, with minute scales at the base. 

 Joi-olla-tuhe cylindric, dilated below opposite the stamens, '6 to 

 7 in. long, grey-tomentose without, slightly villous within; throat 

 with tufts of hair between the lobes ; lobes -25 in. long, oblong, 

 crenulate, rounded, twisted to the left, glabrous within, glabrous on the 

 upper, tomentose on the lower half without. Stamens inserted a little 

 above the base of the tube ; filaments short, slender ; anthers sagittate- 

 acuminate with long spurs, -15 to -175 in. long. Disk annular, 5-lobed, 

 glabrous. Ovary of 2 glabrous carpels attached by their backs to the 

 disk and within it ; style slender ; stigma cylindric, with a spreading ring 

 below and conical tip. Follicles 10 to 12 in. long, densely brown- 

 tomentose when young, tawny-puberulous when old, divaricate at about 

 a right angle, torulose, the swellings opposite the seeds nearly -25 in. in 

 diam., between them about -1 in. ; pericarp chartaceous, thin. Seeds 

 slender, fusiform, 1 in. long, flattened, gradually broadening upwards to 

 an oblique tip, and furnished with a 1 in. long white silky coma ; testa 

 thin, scabrous ; cotyledons narrowly linear-oblong, -25 in. long ; radicle 

 very small, -05 in. long. 



Perak: Wray 1802, 1946, 2365, 4267; Scortechini 1474; King's 

 Collector 1971, 2324. 



This species comes near to E. Grijfithianum, Wt., but has rather different more 

 ucaminate leaves with pale nerves when dry, and larger flowers not so villous within. 



