Flnrti of the Malayan Peninsula. 531 



nearly as loii"' as cotyledons. Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 20 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t. 349 : Bot. Reg. I. t. 81 ; Dene, in DC. Piodr. VIII. 566 ; Dalz. and 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 54 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 485 ; Baill. Hist, des 

 PL X. 221, figs. 157-165 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 18 ; N. E. Brown in 

 Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. i. 328 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 180 ; Prain Beng. 

 Plants 689. 



Perak : Scortechini. Johgee : Curtis. Singapobe : Hidlett 85. An 

 introduced plant, now natm'alized in Africa, India and Malaya, chiefly 

 in waste places near villages. — Distrib. Tropical x\merica, where 

 native. 



15. Ehaphistemma, Vv'all. 



Climbing glabrous shrubs with milky juice. Leaves opposite, mem- 

 branous. Flowers in axillary long-peduncled umbelliform or subrace- 

 mose cymes, large, white, long-pedicelled. Calyx deeply 5-fid or 

 5-partite, 5-glandular within at base. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed ; 

 lobes spreading, twisted in bud, overlapping to the right ; tube broad. 

 Coro7ia-processes 5, membranous, subulate-acuminate, adnate to the 

 staminal-column and produced above it to twice its length. Stamens 

 affixed to the base of the corolla ; filaments connate in a short tube ; 

 anthers with an inflexed membranous appendage ; pollen-masses one in 

 each cell, oblong, not compressed, pendulous, waxy, attached to the thick 

 hollow furrowed hard poUen-carrier by short clavate caudicles. Ovary 

 of 2 cai-pels ; style distinct to near the top ; style-apex large, fleshy, 

 5-lobed, convex at tip. Fruit of (by abortion) 1 thick, fleshy, smooth, 

 subventricose follicle. Seeds plano-convex, margined, comose. — Distrib. 

 Two species ; one of India and Burma and the Malay Peninsula, the 

 other of Java. 



Rh.aphistemma pulchellum, Wall. PI. As. Ear. II. 50, t. 163 (1831) 

 and Cat. 8221a. k glabrous climbing shrub ; branches greyish-brown 

 when dry, terete, much twisted ; the nodes with a line of small glands 

 between the leaf-petioles. Leaves membranous ; ovate-acuminate at 

 apex, cordate at base, with wide sinus often -75 to 1 in. deep ; lower 

 surface pale when dry ; 3 to 7 in. long, 2-5 to 4-5 in. broad ; midrib pro- 

 minent, bearing at its base a cluster of subulate small fleshy glands ; 

 main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, the low^est 2 to 3 pairs radiating from opposite 

 the gland- cluster, the rest curving upwards and anastomosing near the 

 margin, raised beneath ; reticulations few, conspicuous, transverse ; 

 petiole 2 to 5 in. long, sulcate above. Cymes 4- to 6-flowered ; pedun- 

 cle 1"5 to 5 in. long ; branches few ; pedicels slender, -5 to 2 in. long ; 

 bracts short, lanceolate, deciduous ; buds oblong, -5 to 1 in. long ; flowers 

 white, thick. Calyx-\ohe'& ovate-oblong, variable in size, usually '15 to 

 •2 in. long ; glands minute. Coro//a-lobes oblong, obtuse, reflexed in 



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