546 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



caudicles to the rather small pollen-carrier. Style-apex annular, 5-rayed ; 

 the top depressed with a very short umbo. Follicle 1, pendulous ; 

 linear-lanceolate, 3 in. long, -5 in. in diam., somewhat gibbous at base, 

 acuminate and slightly hooked at tip ; pericarp pubescent. Seeds com- 

 pressed, ovate, shortly beaked, "5 in. long, -25 in. broad, with a narrow 

 wing. Wight Contrib. 40, and Icones t. 519 ; Wall. Cat. 8173 ; Griff. 

 Notul. IV. 52, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 389 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 615 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 491 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 34 ; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 332 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 201 ; Prain Beng. Plants 696. M. mono- 

 stachya, Wall. MSS. Asclejnas tinctoria, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 20, and Fl. 

 Ind. II. 43. Percjularia tinctoria, Spreng. Syst. I. 844. P. parvijlora, 

 Blume Bijdr. 1056. Cynanchtmi tingens, Hort. Ham. 



Kedah : King's Collector 1731. Peeak : Ridley 9672 (in very young 

 fruit and in some respects slightly different-looking) ; Scortechini 

 1299. — DiSTEiB. India (Sikkim, Assam, and E. Bengal), Burma, 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo, China. 



The description of the fruit requires verification for the Malay Peninsula. 



2, Maesdenia Scoetechinii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A twining 

 shrub ; branchlets very slender, pale brown. Leaves membranous when 

 dry ; ovate, long-acuminate at apex, rounded or cordate at base ; both 

 surfaces slightly puberulous when young, afterwards glabrous, brown 

 when dry ; 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 1*5 in. broad ; midrib slender, with a 

 tuft of small glands at the base above the petiole ; main nerves 5 to 7 

 pairs, curving upwards to anastomose near the margin ; reticulations 

 many, transverse and netted ; petiole slender, -5 to 1 in. long, twisted. 

 Cymes axillary between the petioles, pedunculate, corymbose, puberulous, 

 about 1 in. long and broad ; peduncles '5 in. long ; flowers very many ; 

 buds conical-acuminate; pedicels "15 in. long; bracts ovate-acuminate. 

 Calyx-lohe^ oblong, acute, membranous, ciliate, -1 in. long ; scales 5, 

 minute. Corolla tubular-campanulate ; tube '1 in. long, glabrous 

 within ; lobes linear-oblong, -15 in. long, glabrous. Co?wza.-processes 

 membranous, bifid ; outer lobe flattened, rounded ; inner erect, acute, 

 shorter than the anther-column. Anthers with prominent cells; appen- 

 dages membranous, acute, erect ; pollen-masses large, oblong, attached 

 by rather short caudicles to the rather large ovate, channelled, pollen- 

 carriers. Style-apex rounded at top, bearing a rather large dome-shaped 

 apex. Fruit not known. 



Peeak : at Tjuk, Scortechini 1162. 



3. Maesdenia thyesifloea. Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 37 (1883). 

 A climbing shrub ; branches pale brown, terete ; uppermost branchlets 

 minutely puberulous. Leaves membranous ; broadly ovate or deltoid- 



