520 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Corolla shortly subrotate or camiJanulate, 5-fid ; tube short or about as 

 long as the lobes ; lobes linear-oblong, recurved, overlapping to the 

 left. Corowa-processes 5, attached to the staminal tube, dorsally 

 flattened, toothed, the tooth usually curving upwards. Stamens in- 

 serted at the base of the corolla ; filaments connate ; anthers small, 

 erect or connivent around the style-apex ; appendages often minutely 

 fimbriate ; pollen-masses very minute, pendulous, single or obscurely 

 in pairs in each cell, attached to minute pale soft pollen-carriers, 

 without caudicles. Ovary of 2 carpels ; style slender ; style-apex 

 columnar or clavate, produced far beyond the anthers ; tip often bifid. 

 Fruit of 2 divaricate follicular mericarps ; pericarp smooth. Seeds 

 oblong, flattened, tipped with a silky coma; testa thin; cotyledons 

 oblong; radicle cylindric. — Disteib. Species about 20; found in India, 

 Malaya and Tropical Africa. 



Corolla-tube much shorter than the lobes : — 



Corolla-lobes linear, twisted when open ; style-apex long- 

 acuminate : — 



Cymes reaching 2 in. in length ; leaves more or less elliptic ; 



follicles 12 in. long and slender . . . . . . 1. T. Griffithii. 



Cymes scarcely reaching -o in. long ; leaves more or less 



obovate ; follicles linear-lanceolate, '4 in. long . . 2. T. Gurtisii. 



Corolla-lobes obovate-oblong, not twisted ; style-apex pyri- 

 form : — 3. T. Scortechinii. 



Corolla campanulate ; tube longer than lobes : — • 



Cymes rusty-pubescent, reaching 2 in. long ; leaves lanceolate 4. T. penangianus. 



Cymes pubescent, under 1 in. long ; leaves elliptic . . 5. T. lankawiensis. 



1. ToxocAEPUs Geiffithii, Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 505 (1844). 

 A slender climbing shrub ; branchlets slender, more or less hispid with 

 purplish-brown stiff hairs ; nodes swollen. Leaves chartaceous ; 

 elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, cuspidately acuminate at apex, cuneate 

 at base ; both surfaces glabrous except the midrib and main nerves 

 beneath, upper greyish-brown, lower greyish when dry ; margins 

 recurved ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, slightly 

 impressed above, raised beneath ; main nerves 6 to 7 pairs, curving 

 upwards to and along the margin where they anastomose ; secondary 

 nerves few ; reticulations irregular, fairly prominent beneath when 

 dry ; petiole slender, twisted, "3 to '5 in. long. Cymes shorter than the 

 leaves, reaching 2 in. in length, rusty-pubescent ; peduncle about 

 •25 in. long; branches 2 to 3, racemosely paniculate; the flowers in 

 small clusters on a somewhat zigzag red rachis ; bracts many, per- 

 sistent, ovate-acute ; pedicels very short ; buds conical ; flowers creamy 

 white. Calyx pubescent without ; lobes ovate-oblong, -05 in. long. 

 C'oro^/a-lobes linear-oblong, glabrous except for slight pubescence near 



