562 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



cotyledons oblong, 0'75 in. long ; radicle cylindric, -05 in. long. Hook, 

 f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 52. H. coriacea, Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 1839, t. 18, not of 

 Blume. Cyrtoceras multiflorum, Benn. in Herb. Horsf. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 514. Cyrtoceras reflexmn, Benn. in Horsf. PI. Jav. Ear. 90, t. 21 ; 

 Eidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 321. C. florihundum, Maund 

 Botanist, IV. t. 178. Gentrostemma multiflorum, Dene, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 Ser. 2, IX. 272, and in DC. Prodr. VIII. 634 ; Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.- 

 Bat. I. 45 ; Hassk. Flor. Bot. Zeit. IX. (1845) 250 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5173. 

 C. Lindleyanum, Dene, in DC. I. c. 



Penang : (drawing in Herb. Kew) ; at Gunong Pulai, 1800 ft., 

 G. King. Peeak: at Tea Gardens, Curtis; at Gunong 'KelididJig, Bidley 

 9739 ; at Birjay Malacca, and Gunong Haram Paroh, Scortechini 635, 

 1905 ; on tree branches in forest, 1000 to 3000 ft., King's Collector 

 {Kunstler) 2423, 7297. Malacca : on Mount Ophir, Maingay (K.D.) 

 1123. — DisTEiB. Burma (Boronga Island, Arracan, Kurz), Java, Borneo, 

 Pliilippine Islands. 



2. HoYA lasiantha, Korthals in Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 526 (1856). 

 A climbing and perhaps epiphytic undershrub ; branchlets rather stout, 

 smooth, yellowish when dry. Leaves thinly fleshy when fresh, charta- 

 ceous when dry ; elliptic or lanceolate, cuspidate-acuminate at apex, 

 acute or rounded at base ; both surfaces glabrous, upper shining ; mar- 

 gins slightly recurved ; 4 to 6 in. long, 1 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, 

 impressed above, raised beneath, with a small pit or gland just above 

 the petiole ; main nerves prominent, impressed above, 8 to 10 pairs, at 

 an angle of 50° to 60° with the midrib, curving upwards to and along 

 the margin, the upper ones forming a looped intramarginal nerve ; 

 reticulations netted, most prominent on the upper surface ; petiole stout, 

 •5 to '75 in. long. Umbels 8- to 12-flowered, on short tubercular 

 rachises at the ends of stout axillary or lateral peduncles 1 to 3 in. long ; 

 pedicels slender, 1-5 to 2 in. long, glabrous ; flowers orange-yellow with 

 white soft hairs, the corona ochreous-yellow, shining. Calyx membranous, 

 hyaline with dark nerves ; lobes ovate to nearly orbicular ; scales 

 subulate. Corolla about -8 in. broad when spread open ; tube very 

 short ; lobes lanceolate-acuminate, densely white-villous at their base, 

 recurved in flower. Corona of 5 shining processes, horny when dry, 

 adnate to the lower part of the anthers ; the lower lobe ovoid, somewhat 

 laterally flattened, inflated, cleft beneath into two wings ; the upper also 

 erect, tongue-like, rounded. Staminal-column moderately long ; anthers 

 closely appressed to the upper lobe of the corona, cells slightly diver- 

 gent ; appendages scarious, broad, obtuse; pollen-masses rather long, 

 waxy, flattened, oblong, attached by short, rather thick, cup-like caudicles 

 to the conical pollen-carriers. Style-aj^ex 5-angled, tip conical, acumi- 



