538 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



glaucous ; 2 to 4 in. long, -2 to -4 in. broad ; midrib slender, prominent ; 

 main nerves about 12 pairs, obscure, acutely curving upwards to meet 

 an intramarginal slightly-looped nerve ; reticulations hardly visible ; 

 petiole none or up to -1 in. long; stem clasping at base. C^/mes race- 

 mose, 1- to 6-flowered, very short ; peduncles very short ; pedicels 

 capillary, -2 to "25 in. long; bracts minute; flowers white; buds conical. 

 Calyx-\ohe'& ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, '06 in. long ; glands dark. 

 CoroWa-lobes caudate-acuminate from a broad base, -25 in. long ; tip 

 obtuse. Corona-processes short, obscurely 4-lobed behind ; lobes with 

 several short obtuse teeth in front. Follicles 1-75 to 3 in. long, very 

 slender, straight ; pericarp thin. Seeds ovate-spathulate, with a minute 

 wing near the base, concave, '15 in. long ; tip obliquely tj-uncate wdth a 

 white silky coma -5 to "75 in. long ; testa thin, brown, papillose; cotyle- 

 dons ovate, '05 in. long; radicle cylindric, -025 in. long. Wight Contrib. 

 60 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 627 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 501 ; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 28. Spiladocorys angustifolia, Ridley in Trans. Linn. 

 See. Ser. 2, III. 322, t. 63. 



Peeak : growing on rocks in the beds of streams ; Curtis ; Bidley 

 2885; ScortecUni I'S.IO; TFray 1980 ; Kincj's Collector lOm^. Pahang: 

 on Tahan river, Bidley 2589. — Disteib. India (Khasia Hills, Patkoi 

 Hills, and Sylhet), Burma. 



20. Gymnema, Br. 



Twining shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. Floioers small, 

 in crowded sublateral or opposite umbelliform cymes. Calyx 5-partite, 

 eglandular or with 5 to 10 glandular scales at the base within. Corolla 

 subrotate, campanulate or urceolate, 5-fid ; lobes thick, narrowly over- 

 lapping to the right in bud or subvalvate. Co?"o«a-processes 5, arising 

 from and adnate to the corolla-tube, either of 5 fleshy lobes adnate up 

 to the mouth of the corolla-tube with more or less free incurved points, 

 or of 5 pairs of fleshy ridges on the lower part of the tube, alternating 

 with the corolla-lobes. Staminal-column arising from the base of the 

 corolla ; anthers short, erect, with short membranous appendages ; 

 pollen-masses erect, attached to the pollen-carriers by very short caudicles. 

 Ovary of 2 carpels ; styles free to near the top ; style-apex large, conical, 

 clavate or capitate, exserted beyond the anthers. Fruit of 2 (or 1) 

 smooth follicular mericarps. Seeds comose. — Disteib. About 20 species, 

 chiefly Asiatic, two extending to Central Africa, others to Australia. 



Corolla-tube short, with corona-processes of 5 fleshy villous 



lobes on the throat, the free points exserted in the sinuses : — 

 Leaves 3 to 6 in. long, tawny-pubescent beneath; cymes sub- 

 capitate, shortly peduncled .. .. ..1. G. acuminatum. 



