1. 



G. 



Wallichii. 



2. 



G. 



Curtisii. 



3. 



G. 



bracteolatum. 



4. 



G. 



Wrayi. 



5i2 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Corolla urceolate ; cymes shorter than the petioles ; corona 

 rounded, more or less adherent to the staminal-column : — 



Leaves rounded at base ; caudicles of poUinia curved, slender 



Leaves cordate at base ; caudicles of poUinia clavate 

 Corolla campanulate ; cymes longer than the petioles ; corona 

 ligulate, angularly bent upwards ; caudicles slender, straight . . 

 Corolla campanulate, almost hypocrateriform ; cymes shorter 

 than the petioles ; corona dorsally iiattened below, radically 

 flattened above ; caudicles long, much curved 



1. GoNGRONEMA Wallichii, Dcne. in DC. Prodr. VIII. 624 (1844). 

 A small twining shrub; branchlets slender, pale brown, smooth. Leaves 

 firmly membranous ; elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, shortly acuminate 

 at apex, rounded at base ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower paler ; 

 margins slightly recurved ; 3 to 6 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender, impressed above, raised beneath, with a small tuft of glands at 

 the base just above the petiole ; main nerves 5 to 6 pairs, arched 

 upwards to meet in a prominent intramarginal looped nerve ; secondary 

 nerves and reticulations few, irregular ; petiole "5 to "75 in. long, 

 slender, twisted. Cymes subsessile, racemiform, few-flowered, shorter 

 than the petioles, on a stout rachis tuberculate with many persistent 

 small rounded imbricate bracts ; pedicels slender, -1 to 'IS in. long ; 

 buds globose. Calyx-lohen ovate-acute, scarious, -05 in. long ; scales 

 5, minute. Corolla urceolate ; tube •! in. long, nearly globose, minutely 

 hahy within ; teeth acuminate, erect or spreading, "05 in. long. Corona- 

 processes broad, somew^iat incurved, rounded at the tip from a broad 

 base, adherent to the base of the staminal-column, fleshy. Staminal- 

 column short ; appendages membranous, acuminate ; pollen-masses 

 oblong-ovoid, attached by slender cuired caudicles to the ovoid pollen- 

 carriers. Style-apex shortly 5-lobed, with a conical apiculus. Follicles 

 slender, straight or gently curved, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 6 in. 

 long, -3 to '4 in. broad ; pericarp smooth. Seeds ovate, spathulate, 

 flattened, -3 to -35 in. long, twisted, with a broad wing. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 500 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 33. Gymnema Wallichii, Wight 

 Contrib. 46 ; Wall. Cat. 819oa. 



Peovince Wellesley: Bidley 7029. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 

 3770 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1113.— Disteib. Borneo {Haviland 3503). 



2. GoNGEONEMA CuETisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender small 

 twining shrub ; branchlets pale brown, slender, smooth ; innovations 

 ta\vny-pubescent. Leaves membranous when dry ; elliptic-lanceolate 

 or -obovate, broadly acuminate at apex, shortly cordate at base ; 

 tawny-pubescent on both surfaces when young, glabrescent when 

 older, except on the margins and midrib, under surface pale grey; 2-5 to 

 3 in. long, -75 to I'O in. broad ; midrib broad, prominent beneath, with 



