Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 519 



dilated, ending in a flattened ring and produced in a beak above it ; 

 style-apex rounded or bifid, exserted beyond the anthers. Fruit of 

 2 divaricate follicular mericarps, terete or angular, acuminate, smooth. 

 Seeds flattened, oblong, ending in a long white silky coma ; albumen 

 scanty ; cotyledons linear-oblong ; radicle rather long, cylindric. — 

 DiSTRiB. Species about 30, chiefly of South and Tropical Africa and 

 the Mascarene Islands ; a few in India, Malaya, and the islands, 

 extending to Australia. 



Secamone miceantha, Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 501 (1814). A 

 small climbing shrub ; branchlets slender, terete, the size of a crow- 

 quill; nodes enlarged. Leaves membranous; ovate-lanceolate, acuminate 

 and apiculate at apex, attenuate at base ; both surfaces olive-green when 

 dry, the lower paler, glabrous ; margins recurved ; 1'5 to 3 in. long, 

 •35 to 1 in. broad; midrib slender; main nerves about 8 to 10 pairs, 

 obscure, cm'ving acutely upwards to meet an obscure intramarginal 

 nerve; reticulations scarcely visible ; petiole slender, -1 to -25 in. long. 

 Cymes spreading, pubescent, 1 to 2 in. long and the same broad; 

 branches sually 2-chotomous below, 3-chotomous above ; main 

 peduncle variable, reaching 1 in. long ; branch peduncles slender, 

 flexuous, often zigzag, about -25 in. long ; pedicels -1 in. ; bracts very 

 small, ovate-acute, hispidly hairy ; buds globose ; flowers pale yellow. 

 Calyx deeply cleft, lobes ovate, cihate on the margins, scarious above, 

 black-gland-dotted on the claw, '05 in. long. Corolla-\ohe% deeply cleft, 

 glabrous, "075 in. long, obtuse, 3-nerved. Co rowa-processes verj- narrow, 

 compressed, with a rounded tooth on the back. Follicles 2, slender, 

 divaricate in a straight line (180°) or nearly so, 3 in. long, -3 in. broad; 

 acuminate tips slightly incurved; pericarp thin, glabrous, striate. 

 Seeds ovate-spathulate, truncate at tip, flattened, submembranous 

 on the margins, bearing a copious white silky coma, '5 in. long, 

 •125 in. broad; testa thin, brown, shining. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 472. 

 Tylophoramicrantha, Dene. Herb. Tim. Desc. in Nouv. Ann. Mus. Sc. III. 

 (1834) 377. 



Siamese States: TrdaUg, King' s Collector IH^:. Kedah: onLangkawi 

 Island, Curtis 2800. Penang : Curtis 225, 992, 1896.— Disteib. Java, 

 Timor. 



We cannot separate from this S. Finlayscnii, Wight Contrib. 61 (1834) ; Wall. 

 Arch. No. 103, probably from Siam. 



10. ToxocAEPUs, "Wight & Arn. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite. Floivers small or moderate- 

 sized, in axillary dichotomous paniculate or racemose cymes. Calyx 

 minute, 5-partite, with or without 5 minute scales within at the base. 



