526 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



tube short, -025 in. long ; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, recurved in flower, 

 covered within with yellowish villous hairs. Corowa-processes 2-lobed, 

 dark, longer than the staminal-column. Style-apex clavate, acute, '05 in. 

 long. Fruit not known. 



Peeak : on trees in dense jungle near Lariit, King's Collector 5119. 

 Singapore : Maingay (K.D.) 1106. 



2. Genianthus Eidleyi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender twining 

 shrub ; branchlets striate, with scattered round tubercles and covered 

 with thick ferruginous pubescence. Leaves fleshy when fresh, charta- 

 ceous when dry ; ovate-oblong or -lanceolate, acuminate at apex, 

 rounded at base ; dark olive-brown, dull and glabrous on the upper 

 surface, pale and mottled and glabrous on the lower except along the 

 midrib ; margins recurved ; 3 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender, pale, raised on the lower surface, a cluster of small glands at 

 the base ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, pale, starting at an angle of about 

 70"^ with the midrib and curved upwards to meet in loops near the 

 margin ; secondary nerves irregular ; reticulations obscure, chiefly 

 transverse ; petiole rusty-pubescent, twisted, -5 to -75 in. long. Cymes 

 slender, divaricate, rusty-pubescent, racemosely paniculate, reaching 

 6 in. in length and 8 in. in breadth; peduncles none or short (up to 

 ■5 in. long) ; branches slender, the flowers in distinct clusters of about 

 3 to 5 ; bracts very small, ovate, deciduous ; pedicels slender, up to 

 about -15 in. long ; buds ovoid. Caly x-tuhe short ; lobes ovate-oblong, 

 rounded, -05 in. long, glabrous within, densely ferruginous-villous 

 without. Corolla-lohes, free almost to the base, oblong, bluntly apiculate, 

 recurved in flower, -15 in. long, covered in the upper half within with 

 a dense white beard. (7oro7za-processes acuminate, longer than the 

 anthers. PoUen-c&rnev gland rounded, bifid ; pollen-masses obscurely 

 in fours. Style-apex columnar, -075 in. long. Fruit not known. 



Pebak : on Maxwell's Hill, Bidley 2988 ; Scortechini 1172 ; at 

 Lariit, 8000 to 3500 ft.. King's Collector 2612. 



3. Genianthus rufo-velutinus, King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing 

 shrub ; branches and branchlets stout, densely clothed with soft choco- 

 late-brown tomentum ; nodes somewhat swollen. Leaves coriaceous ; 

 elliptic-ovate or -obovate, acuminate at apex, cuneate or attenuate or 

 rounded at base ; upper surface shining, glabrous or slightly villous, 

 pubescent on the midrib and main nerves ; lower surface ferruginous- 

 villous, especially on the nerves, dull ; margins strongly recurved ; 4 to 



6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; midrib stout, impressed above, as are the 



7 to 9 pairs of main nerves which, leaving the midrib at an angle of 

 about 50°, are at first straight and then curve upwards to join a rather 

 obscure intramarginal looped nerve, also impressed ; secondary nerves 



