534 Flora of the Malayan Peniiuula. 



to 2 in. broad ; the axillary leaflets about "5 in. long ; midrib rather 

 broad, channelled above ; main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, at first straight, then 

 curved upwards to form a looped intramarginal nerve near the edge ; 

 secondary nerves few ; reticulations few, obscure ; petiole "5 to '75 in, 

 long, articulate near the base, the upper side channelled and with a line 

 of hairs, the base enlarged, those of each pair forming a cup round the 

 branchlet. Cymes lateral, l^etween the leaves, about 4-to 8-flowered, 

 racemose ; peduncle -5 to -75 in. long ; pedicels -1 to -15 in. long, 

 puberulous ; bracts small, obtuse ; flower-buds spherical. Calyx-\ohe% 

 ovate, "05 in. long ; glandular scales 5, minute, alternate ^vith the lobes. 

 Corolla cleft nearly to the base ; lobes concave, obtuse, '15 in. long. 

 Corona membranous, ■! to '15 in. deep, cyhndric, divided above into 10 

 or more irregular teeth. Staminal-column rather long ; wings horny, 

 sagittate at base; appendages membranous rounded, crenate, erect or 

 slightly curved over the style-apex ; pollen-masses ellipsoid, waxy, 

 attached by clavate caudicles to the rather large black pollen-carriers. 

 Style-apex 5-angled, depressed, with a small rounded tip. Follicles 

 usually 1 only, thickly coriaceous, nearly straight on the dorsal, curved 

 on the ventral edge, 3 to 5 in. long by '75 to 1 in. broad, tip recurved- 

 hooked, base slightly gibbous ; pericarp smooth. Seeds nearly orbicular, 

 plano-convex, broadly winged, "3 to "35 in. long, -25 in. broad, ending in 

 a broad tip which bears a white silky coma 1"5 in. long ; testa thin, 

 granular and wrinkled, dark brown ; cotyledons ovate, obtuse, •! in. by 

 •075 in. ; radicle cyhndric, -05 in. long. Wall. Cat. 8226 ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. IV. 23. Cynoctonum ovalifoliuvi, Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 

 529 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 479. 



Penang : Wallich 8226 ; Curtis 871, 1270. Peovince Wellesley : 

 on the road to Arakuda, Ridley 7029. Peeak : Wray 1763, 2061, 

 2939 ; Kincfs Collector, 2575, 8385, 8450 ; Scortechini 789. Malacca: 

 Main^ay (K.D.) 1140. Singapoee: Bidley 10160. — Disteib. Java. 



2. Ctnanchum coeymbosum, Wight Contrib. 56 (1834). A slender 

 climbing shrub ; stem rather stout ; branchlets terete, glabrous, with 

 rather long internodes. Leaves membranous when dry, dull green 

 when fresh ; ovate or orbicular, cuspidately acuminate at apex, cordate 

 at base with a sinus -4 in. deep, '5 in. broad ; under surface pale, 

 glaucous, upper sm'face glabrous except the midrib and main nerves ; 

 margins slightly recur^^ed, 2 to 6 in. long, 1 to 3 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender, raised beneath, furnished at the base with a tuft of minute 

 glands ; main nerves 5 to 6 pairs, the lowest 3 pairs spreading from 

 opposite the gland-tuft, the rest curved upwards to near the margin ; 

 reticulations rather scanty, chiefly transverse ; petiole 1*5 to 3 in. long, 

 slender. Cymes corymbiform, man^^-flowered, 2 to 3 in. long, glabrous; 



