516 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Kedah : at Coah, Langkawi Island, Curtis 2591. Penang : Wallich 

 4458. — DiSTEiB. Java [Lobb, &c.). 



In Curtis' specimen the glands between the filaments are very small or sometimes 

 none ; but otherwise the specimen agrees well enough with Wallich's. 



8. Streptocaulon, Wight & Arn. 



Twining herbs and shrubs, usually tomentose. Leaves opposite. 

 Floioers small, often minute, in lax sessile or peduncled trichotomous 

 panicled cymes in one axil only of a pair of leaves. Calyx minute, 

 5-partite, with 5 scales within at the base. CoroZZa rotate; tube ver^^ 

 short ; lobes ovate, slightly overlapping to the right ; buds conical or 

 pyramidal. Corowa-processes filiform, adnate to the backs of the fila- 

 ments. Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla ; filaments ver}- 

 short, alternating with minute glands ; anthers oblong, adherent to the 

 style-apex ; appendages small, black, triangular, connate over the 

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

 style-apex ; appendicles spathulate-funnel-shaped ; pollen-masses 2 in 

 each anther-cell composed of pollen-granules, each of which consists of 

 3 to 4 grains arranged in lines or tetrads. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels ; 

 style short ; style-apex 5-angled, depressed, top convex. Fruit of 2 divari- 

 cate follicular mericarps, usually pubescent. Seeds flattened, keeled on 

 the ventral surface, oblong ; tip broad, surmounted by a long white silky 

 coma ; testa very thin ; albumen very scanty ; cotyledons ovate-oblong, 

 flat ; radicle cylindric, nearly as long as cotyledons. — Distrib. 6 to 7 

 species, of India and the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, and the 

 Philippine Islands. 



Main nerves of leaf 6 to 8 pairs ; corolla-lobes under •! in. long ; 



follicles under 3 in. long . . . . . . .. 1. S. Wallichii. 



Main nerves of leaf 14 to 18 pairs ; corolla-lobes over -1 in. 



long ; follicles over 3 in. long . . . . .. 2. S. GriffitJiii. 



1. Streptocaulon Wallichii, Wight Contrib. 65 (1834). A slen- 

 der climbing shrub with very milky juice; branchlets slightly angled, 

 with dark brown bark and occasional small lenticels, uppermost and 

 innovations densely shortly brown-pubescent. Leaves subcoriaceous ; 

 elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acute with a short apiculus at apex, euneate 

 at base or occasionally rounded ; upper surface dull brown when dry 

 and puberulous, lower densely and softly brown-tomentose ; margins 

 slightly recurved ; 2 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, 

 slightly impressed above, prominent beneath; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 

 at an angle of about 60° with the midrib, curved gradually upwards to 



