Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 515 



grains adherent lineally. Style short, rather slender; style-apex 5-angled 

 below, convex above. Fruit and seeds not known. 

 Kedah : small islands near Langkawi, Curtis 3684. 



7. x\theeandea, Dene. 



Slender glabrous climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite. Floioers in 

 lax axillary and terminal peduncled dichotomous cymes. Galyx-\iuhe 

 turbinate, 5-partite, patent in end ; scales 5, quadrate, crenulate. Corolla 

 rotate ; tube short, narrowed at the base ; lobes elongate, slender, 

 linear-lanceolate, overlapping to the right, twisted to the left in end. 

 Corowa-processes 5, filiform, at the back of the bases of the filaments. 

 Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla-tube; filaments free, alternate 

 with erect glands ; anthers ovate, subhastate at base, connate with the 

 style-apex ; appendages long, acute, membranous, combined in a cone 

 over the style-apex ; pollen-carriers of a viscid basal gland attached to 

 the base of the style-apex ; appendicles oblong-spathulate, bearing many 

 pollen-granules of 4 grains arranged in line or in tetrads. Ovary conical, 

 sunk in the calyx-tube ; style slender, short ; style-apex long, conical, 

 5-lobed at base. Fruit not known. — Disteib. One species. 



Atheeandea acutifolia. Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 497 (1844). A 

 slender twining shrub ; branchlets dark brown, slightly rough ; innova- 

 tions puberulous. Leaves chartaceous when dry ; oblong-lanceolate or 

 obovate-oblong, acute or cuspidate at apex, attenuate and then rounded 

 at base ; glabrous on both surfaces and reddish or greyish black when 

 dry, dark on the upper, almost glaucous on the lower ; margins slightly 

 recurved ; 2 to 3"5 in. long, '75 to 1*75 in. broad ; midrib slender, 

 raised beneath, sometimes puberulous ; main nerves 5 to 8 pairs, very 

 slender, arching upwards to and along the margin ; secondary nerves 

 few, reticulations inconspicuous ; petiole slender, -2 to -4 in. long. 

 Cymes very slender, reaching 3 in. in length and about the same in 

 breadth ; peduncles slender, about 1 in. long ; branches capillary, nearly 

 as long ; bracts in pairs, linear-subulate, •! to '15 in. long ; pedicels 

 capillary, curved, -75 in. long, somewhat enlarged under the calyx ; buds 

 conical, acuminate, '5 in. long ; flowers few, brownish-yellow, distant. 

 Calyx-iwhe turbinate, with 5 small scales at the throat ; lobes spreading, 

 lanceolate, -06 in. long. CoroZ/a-tube very short ; lobes linear, -75 in. 

 long, twisted in bud to the right, then straight, reciirved in flower. 

 Corona-processes filiform, nearly -1 in. long, behind the stamens. Fruit 

 and seeds not known. Miq. PL Ind. Bat. II. 467 ; Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. 

 IV. 9. A. pubescens, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 147, t. xxvi ; 

 Miq. I.e. 468. A. cuspidata,'B\um.e I.e. ; Miq. I.e. Cryptolejns filiformis, 

 Wall. Cat. 4458. 



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