536 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Corona-processes fleshy or membranous, with one or 

 sometimes two apical teeth, sometimes none . . 22. Maksdenia. 



Corolla hypocrateriform : — 

 Corolla small or moderate-sized ; corona-processes com- 

 pressed, beaked . . . . . . . . 23. Pekgularia. 



Corolla large ; corona-processes none or flattened . . 24. Stephanotis. 



Corolla rotate or rotate-campauulate ; corona-processes 

 small, on the filament part of the column . . 25. Tylophoea. 



Corolla-lobes valvate : — ■ 



Corolla rotate or subcampanulate : — 



Corona-processes spreading, lower lobes usually dentate 

 or laciniate, upper lobes tubercular or absent ; leaves not 

 fleshy ; climbing shrubs . . . . . . 26. Heterostemma. 



Corona stellate, lower lobes erect or spreading, upper 

 beaked ; leaves usually fleshy ; epiphytes or epiphytic 

 climbers . . . . . . . . . . 27. Hoya. 



Corolla urceolate or cylindric or campanulate ; corona-pro- 

 cesses very membranous ; epiphytes . . . . 28. Dischidia. 



Corolla-tube short, lobes long subulate ; twining under- 



shrub . . . . . . . . . . 29. Pycnoehachis. 



18. Saecolobus, Br. 



Twining glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite. Floivers small, in 

 crowded, pedunculate, axillary or interpetiolar corymbiform cymes. 

 Calyx 5-partite, with 5 minute glandular scales at the base within. 

 Corolla campanulate or subrotate, 5-fid ; the lobes overlapping to the 

 right. Corona none. Stamens affixed to the base of the corolla ; 

 filaments connate in a short tube ; anthers broad, ending in a spathulate 

 inflexed appendage ; pollen-masses solitary in each cell, erect, com- 

 pressed, obovate, attached by long filiform twisted caudicles to the 

 narrow, long, channelled pollen-carriers. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels ; 

 styles distinct below, ending above in a 5-angled style-apex with flat or 

 slightly rounded tip. Fruit of usually 1 thick globose and smooth or 

 ovate and 2-keeled follicular mericarp ; pericarp fleshy, chartaceous 

 when dry. Seeds large, marginate, without coma. — ^Disteib. Species 

 3 : two of India, the Malay Peninsula, and the Andaman and Nicobar 

 Islands ; the third of Java. 



Saecolobus globosus. Wall, in Asiat. Eesearch. XII. 577, t. 4 

 (1818), and Cat. 4468. A twining shrub ; branchlets slender, smooth, 

 shining, callose-punctate, pale brown. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; 

 oblong or ovate-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate at apex, rounded at 

 base and usually soniewhat unequal-sided ; both surfaces brown when 

 dry, lower glaucous, young leaves slightly puberulous ; margins slightly 

 recurved ; 3 to 4-5 in. long, 1 to 1*75 in. broad ; midrib slender, chan- 

 nelled above and furnished with a small cluster of glands at the base. 



