524 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



single or in pairs in each cell attached to minute pollen-carriers without 

 caudicles. Ovary of 2 carpels ; style-apex 5-angled below, produced 

 above in a long fusiform tip. Fruit of 2 follicular mericarps ; follicles 

 nearly parallel, thick, lanceolate. Seeds large, flattened, broadly 

 winged ; cotyledons elliptic, nerved ; radicle cylindric. — Distrib. 

 One species. 



GoNiosTEMMA ACUMINATUM, Wight Contrib. 62 (1834). A slender 

 climbing shrub ; stem glabrous, pustular ; branchlets with smooth 

 brown bark. Leaves somewhat fleshy when green, chartaceous and 

 ^vrinkled when dry ; ovate-oblong, acuminate at apex, cuneate to 

 almost rounded at base ; dark green, when dry dark olive-green on the 

 upper and pale brown on the lower surface ; margins recurved ; 3 to 



5 in. long, 1 to 1'75 in. broad ; midrib broad, conspicuous and usually 

 pale on the upper, obscure on the lower siu'face ; main nerves very 

 obscm'e, about 10 to 14 pairs, at about 70° with the midrib, straight to 

 join an obscure intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves many, irregular ; 

 reticulations indistinct ; petiole slender, -75 to 1'25 in. long, channelled 

 above. Cymes axillary or terminal, paniculately corymbose, reaching 



6 to 7 in. in length and 5 to 6 in. in breadth, 2-to 3-chotomous ; main 

 peduncles slender, 1*5 to 3 in. long or sometimes ; primary branches 

 1 to 2 in. long, remainder smaller by degrees ; pedicels slender, -2 in. 

 long; bracts minute, acute; flower-buds oblong, "2 to "3 in. long; flowers 

 cream-coloured. Calyx-lobes orbicular, -05 in. long, ciliate on the 

 margins, gland-dotted near the base, usually with 5 minute scales 

 within, alternate with them. Corolla-lohes oblong-acute, glabrous, 

 •15 in. long ; tube "1 in. long, lined within by a membrane which ends 

 in 5 triangular acute ciliate teeth. Style-apex fusiform, -1 in. long. 

 Follicles thick, recurved so as to lie nearly parallel and nearly meet 

 at the tips, which are slightly hooked ; 4 to 6 in. long, -75 in. broad ; 

 pericarp smooth. Seeds many, flat, ovate, '75 in. long, -25 in. broad, 

 ending in a broad flat beak, surmounted by a 2 in. long white silky 

 coma ; margins winged ; testa thin, brown ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons 

 oblong, 3-nerved, "2 in. long, -1 in. broad ; radicle cylindric, '15 in. 

 long. WaU. Cat. 8242 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 504. Toxocarpus 

 acuminatus, Benth. in Gen. PI. II. 747 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 15. 



Penang: on Government Hill, 1000 to 1200 ft., Curtis 244; 

 Hullett 182. Pebak : at Thaipeng and Sungie Larut, Wray 2369, 2868, 

 3046 ; clinging to trees in dense forest near Lariit, King's Collector 

 (Kunstler) 2520, 6546, 6686, 10490.— Distrib. India (Sylhet, Wallich 

 8242). 



