554 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



minute, persistent ; pedicels slender, -1 to -15 in. long ; buds very small, 

 globose ; flowers light brown. Calyx pubescent without ; lobes ovate 

 acute, ciliate, -04 in. long ; scales minute. Corolla rotate, very small, 

 glabrous, membranous ; lobes -05 in. long, 3-nerved. Corona-^vocesses 

 inflated, obtuse, shorter than the anthers. Anthers slender ; appendages 

 short, membranous ; pollen-masses ovoid, attached by very short 

 straight caudicles to the minute slightly spurred pollen-carriers. Ovary 

 of 2 carpels ; style-apex pentagonal, flat, very slightly convex at tip. 

 Follicle 1, subulate, acuminate, 3 to 4 in. long, -25 in. broad ; pericarp 

 chartaceous, smooth, glabrous. Seeds ovate-oblong, -25 to "35 in. long, 

 •1 in. broad, slightly contracted above below the broad truncate tip, 

 which bears a white silky coma -75 to 1 in. long, denticulate at base, 

 broadly winged ; testa brown, thin, shining, striate ; cotyledons elliptic, 

 •1 in. long, 3-nerved ; radicle cylindric, -05 in. long. Wight Contrib. 

 50 ; Wall. Cat. 8206 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 608 ; Hook. f. M. Br. 

 Ind. IV. 44 ; Prain Beng. Plants 698. Pergularia exilis, Spreng. Syst. 

 I. 844. 



Perak: at Kota, Wray 2417, 3053 ; King's Collector 6470. Dindings: 

 on Pangkore Island, Scortechini 1035. Malacca : Griffith 3764. — 

 DiSTRiB. India (Assam, Sylhet, Chittagong). 



5. Tylophoea hiesuta, Wight Contrib. 49 (1834) ; Wall. Cat. 8201 ; 

 Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 607 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 43. 

 T. Jacquemo?itii, Dene. I. c. Gymnema hirsittmn, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 

 50. — DiSTEiB. India (Himalaya from Kumaon eastwards. Eastern 

 Bengal). 



Vae. i^enangensis, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 43. A climbing 

 shrub ; branchlets densely ferruginous tomentose. Leaves subcoriaceous ; 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, attenuate, rounded, or some- 

 what cordate at base ; both surfaces ferruginous-tomentose, the hairs 

 with bulbous bases ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 1'75 in. broad ; midrib rather 

 stout ; main nerves 4 to 6 pairs, curved upwards to and along the 

 margin ; reticulations netted ; petiole '5 to -75 in. long, densely 

 tomentose. Cymes ferruginous-villous, much branched, 1 to 5 in. long ; 

 branches dichotomous ; flowers in racemiform clusters on enlarged 

 many-bracteate rachises ; bracts ovate-acuminate ; pedicels very slender, 

 •25 to '5 in. long. Calyx-lohe^ pubescent, very small, -3 in. long, ovate- 

 acute. Corolla deeply cleft ; lobes triangular-ovate, acute, -1 in. long. 

 Corona of 5 subglobose processes on the backs of the anthers and 

 shorter than them. ^7i^/ter-appendages short, incurved ; pollen-masses 

 nearly globose, horizontal, attached by slender slightly curved caudicles 

 to the oblong pollen-carriers. Style-apex 5-angIed, included within 

 the anthers. Fruit not seen. T. mollissima, Wall. Cat. 8202. 



