558 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Perak: at Kwala Dipang, Bidley 9619; at Lariit, 200 to 500 ft., 

 King's Collector 2338, 7973 ; at Ijuk, Scortechini 1097, 1150. 



At first sight this species closely resembles H. chrysanthum (Symphysicarpxis 

 chrysanthiis, Hassk.), but differs completely in the corona and in the very divaricate 

 follicles. 



Var. cordattmi, King & Gamble. Leaves cordate to a depth of about 

 •1 in. ; main nerves 5 to 6 pairs, the basal pairs 3, of which the lowest 

 much deilexed in the lobes of the leaf. Corona-\ohe's> usually entire. 

 Eest as in the type. 



Perak : Scortechini. Only one rather poor specimen of this is 

 available. 



2. Heterostemma fimbriatum, King & Gamble, n. sp. A twining 

 shrub ; stems pale brown, with 2 longitudinal lines of hairs. Leaves 

 fleshy, chartaceous when dry ; oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at 

 apex, cuneate at base ; both surfaces glabrous, lower pale ; margins slightly 

 recurved; 3*5 to 4-5 in. long, 1'5 to 2 in. broad; midrib stout, raised 

 beneath when dry, furnished with a cluster of rounded glands at the 

 base above the petiole ; main nerves 5 pairs, prominent and raised when 

 dry, with a slender obscure pair in addition from the very base, the 

 second pair from about "25 in. above the base, all obliquely curved 

 upwards to join in a looped intramarginal nerve ; reticulations not 

 visible even when dry ; petiole stout, '5 to "75 in. long, much curved 

 and swollen at the base. Cymes racemose, on short (-15 in.) very stout 

 peduncles ; the rachises of the racemes about '3 in. long, thick, strobilate, 

 with cushion-like bracts ; pedicels slender, angular, -5 in. long, puberu- 

 lous ; buds rather large, ovoid-orbicular. Calyx very small ; lobes 

 minute, ovate-acute, ciliate. Corolla ovoid-urceolate, thick, fleshy, 

 pubescent without, glabrous within, -3 to '4 in. long, divided at most to 

 one-third of its length in triangular lobes slightly overlapping to the 

 right and erect. Corowa-processes nearly erect, attached to the 

 staminal-column, thick, fimbriate at the tips in 2 rows of subulate 

 teeth. Staminal-column short; anther-cells rounded; appendages very 

 small, membranous, bifid; pollen-masses rounded, with a thin straight 

 margin on the inner side, nearly horizontal, sessile on a triangular 

 pollen-carrier. Carpels distinct, elongate ; style-apex 5-gonal, tip 

 concave. Fruit not known. 



Perak : at G. Ijub, Scortechini 1220. 



Only one rather poor specimen of this is available. The plant seems to be an 

 Oianthus; but that genus — as suggested by Hooker in the Fl. Br. Ind.,and by Bentham 

 in his remarks to Ic. PI. t. 1191, under 0. iirceolatus, Benth., to which this species is 

 very close — seems scarcely separable from Heterostemma. In many ways our species 

 strongly resembles H. alitum, Wight. 



