508 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. Phyllantheea, Blume. 



Glabrous climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, with nerves at right 

 angles to the midrib, pale beneath. Flowers long-pedicelled, sub- 

 racemose, reddish, in lax pedunculate cymes from one axil of a pair of 

 leaves. Calyx short, 5-fid ; lobes ovate ; scales 5, alternate with the 

 lobes within, membranous. Corolla campanulate-rotate, fleshy, deeply 

 5-fid, papillose within ; lobes suboblique, concave, overlapping to the 

 right. Corona none. Stamens affixed near the base of the corolla ; 

 filaments free ; anthers agglutinated with the style-apex, not bearded ; 

 appendages erect, thick, naked, curving inwards at the tip. Pollen 

 granular, composed of 3 to 4 granules cross-wise adherent ; pollen- 

 carriers globose, bearing short slender caudicles ending in obliquely 

 funnel-shaped appendicles which carry the pollen-masses. Style-apex 

 capitate, obscurely 5-angled. Fruit of 2 slender divaricate follicular 

 mericarps. Seeds oblong ; testa thin, with few silky hairs ending in a 

 tufted long silky coma ; albumen thin ; cotyledons oblong ; radicle 

 cylindric, nearly as long as the cotyledons. — Distrib. Species 2, one of 

 the Malay Peninsula, the other of Java. 



Phyllantheea pbrakensis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous 

 slender climbing shrub, with thin slender terete branchlets. Leaves 

 somewhat fleshy, membranous when dry ; oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate at apex, rounded at base; glabrous on both surfaces, the 

 lower pale, almost glaucous; margins recurved; 2-5 to 4 in. long, -75 to 

 1-25 in. broad; midrib prominent, impressed above, raised beneath; 

 main nerves 8 to 10 pairs at right angles to the midrib, obscure, slender, 

 straight to join an intramarginal looped nerve at the sinus of the loops ; 

 secondary nerves very few, between and parallel to the main nerves, 

 very obscure; reticulations not visible; petiole slender, -25 to "5 in. long, 

 slightly thickened below. Cymes few-flowered ; peduncles slender, up to 

 about -25 in. long; branches usually 2, reaching -5 in. in length, sub- 

 racemose, with pairs of persistent small ovate acute scarious bracts ; 

 pedicels very slender, about -25 in. long; buds globose; flowers reddish- 

 brown or mottled red and yellow. Calyx-loheB ovate, hyaline, -05 in. 

 long ; scales -1 to -2 in. long, membranous. Corolla-lohe^ orbicular, 

 imbricate, '2 to '3 in. long, minutely papillose within; tube very short. 

 Anthers with appendages -05 to -075 in. long. Follicles slender, 6 to 

 7 in. long, -25 in. broad, the tip hooked inwards, divaricate in one straight 

 line ; pericarp smooth, thin, dark brown, striate. Seeds many, oblong, 

 ridged on the ventral surface, -3 in. long, -06 in. broad, with a few 

 sparse white hairs and a deciduous silky white spreading coma 1-5 to 

 2 in. long; testa thin, dark brown; albumen very thin; cotyledons oblong, 

 rather fleshy, -15 in, long, -05 in. broad ; radicle cyhndric, -1 in. long. 



