Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 549 



Pergularia puberula, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 495 (1856). A 

 twining shrub ; branchlets slender, terete, puberulous as are the 

 innovations. Leaves membranous ; ovate or oblong-ovate, acuminate 

 at apex, rounded or shallowly cordate at base, puberulous when young, 

 when older only on the nerves ; 3 to 5 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad; midrib 

 slender, with a tuft of minute glands at the base above the petiole ; 

 main nerves 6 to 7 pairs, the lowest 2 pairs rather close together, the 

 rest distant, curving upwards to anastomose near the margin ; reticula- 

 tions transverse, prominent on the lower surface ; petiole slender, 

 puberulous, 1 to 1'5 in. long. Cymes umbelliform, in pairs on the top 

 of a "5 to 2 in. long peduncle, puberulous, many-flowered; bracts minute, 

 subulate ; pedicels slender, -25 to -5 in. long ; buds oblong-conical. 

 Calyx membranous ; lobes ovate-obtuse, unequal, -05 to -1 in. long, 

 puberulous, ciliate on the margins ; scales obscure. Corolla pubescent 

 without ; tube '25 in. long, inflated below, slightly contracted at the 

 mouth ; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, hispidly ciliate, as long as tube. 

 Co?"owa-processes laterally compressed, 2-winged below, beaked above, 

 the inner face with a subulate curved appendage arching over the 

 anthers and longer than them. Pollen-ma,sses oblong, obtuse, attached 

 a little above their bases by very short stout caudicles to the bifid 

 pollen-carriers. Style-apex rounded-conical. Fruit not known. Hook, 

 f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 38. 



Penang: Phillips; at Penara Bakit, Curtis 932. — Disteib. Java 

 {Hors field, Kurz). 



P. minor, Andr. Bot. Kep. t. 184, is a garden species found in cultivation in India 

 and Malaya, and prized for its greenish-yellow scented flowers. Its native home is 

 uncertain. Malacca : Griffith. 



24. Stephanotis, Thouars. 



Twining shrubs, often long-scandent. Leaves opposite, coriaceous. 

 Flowers in umbelliform axillary pedunculate cymes, usually large, white 

 and sweet-scented. Calyx 5-partite, with large lobes ; glandular scales 

 usually none. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube long, cylindric, inflated at 

 the base; lobes twisted, overlapping to the right. Corona of 5 processes, 

 adnate to the back of the anthers, flattened, sometimes none. Staminal- 

 column arising from the base of the corolla ; anthers erect, with 

 erect or inflexed membranous appendages ; pollen-masses solitary in 

 each anther-cell, erect, attached in pairs to the carriers by very short 

 caudicles. Ovary of 2 carpels ; style short ; style-apex conical or 

 shortly beaked, hardly or not exserted. FrtUt of 2 very thick, obtuse 

 or acuminate, follicular mericarps. Seeds comose. — Distrib. About 



