578 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



cotyledons elliptic, -02 in. long; radicle -01 in. long, flattened perpendicularly to the 

 cotyledons. 



21. HoYA PLiCATA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing, probably 

 epiphytic, undershrub; branchlets rather stout, terete, yellowish. Leaves 

 fleshy, coriaceous when dry ; ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, acute 

 at base ; smooth and glabrous on both surfaces ; margins slightly 

 recurved ; 3 in. long, 1 in. broad ; midrib very faint and then only when 

 dry ; remaining nerves invisible ; petiole stout, "25 in. long, flattened. 

 Umbels many-flowered, racemose, on stout tubercular racliises, '25 to 

 •5 in. long at the ends of stout '75 to 1 in. long peduncles ; pedicels 

 fleshy, broadly flattened when dry, 1 in. long ; buds 5-angled, flattened. 

 Calyx small ; lobes ovate, acuminate, hyaline ; scales subulate. Corolla 

 •4 in. broad, with a raised 5-angled villous ridge in the tube above the 

 insertion of the staminal-column, puberulous on both surfaces; lobes 

 triangular, ■! to "15 in. long. Corona of 5 shining horny processes 

 attached to the backs of the anthers ; lower lobe ovate, obtuse or bifid at 

 apex, with a broad fold on the upper surface ; upper lobe erect, acumi- 

 nate, as long as the anthers. Staminal-colimin short ; anther-cells 

 parallel ; appendages scarious, acuminate ; pollen-masses flattened, 

 granular, thin on the margin, truncate at top, seated on the face of 

 spathulate horizontal caudicles, which connect them with the rather 

 large-lobed pollen -carriers. Style-apex 5-angled, fleshy, with a short 

 conical apiculus. Fruit not known. 



Peeak : at Maxwell's Hill, 3000 ft., Scortechini 323. 



22. HoYA CAMPANULATA, BlumeBijdr. 1064 (1825). A small twining 

 shrub ; branches fleshy ; branchlets pale brown and shining when dry, 

 the bark scaling off. Leaves fleshy and bright-green when fresh, 

 coriaceous when dry ; elliptic-oblong, acuminate at apex, cuneate or 

 attenuate, sometimes rounded at base ; both surfaces glabrous, more or 

 less shining, pale when dry ; margins recurved ; 2-5 to 6*5 in. long, 

 1 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib stout, raised below, impressed above when 

 dry ; with a rounded gland at the base above the petiole ; main nerves 

 6 to 7 pairs, straight to meet, often at scarcely more than half-way to 

 the edge, a prominent (when dry) looped intramarginal nerve ; secondary 

 nerves few, similar ; reticulations many, irregular, prominent, and raised 

 above when dry ; petiole "25 in. long, stout. Umbels about 16- to 20- 

 flowered ; peduncles stout, 1 to 2 in. long, the bracteate portion -25 to 

 •5 in. long ; pedicels very slender, 1 to 1*25 in. long ; buds globose, 

 depressed ; flowers cream-coloured. Calyx-lohes membranous, hyaline, 

 subulate. Corolla glabrous, about 1 to 1'5 in. broad or broader ; lobes 

 ciliate, boat-shaped, -6 in. long ; scales very short, apiculate. Corona 

 of 5 processes ; lower lobes of spreading spurs "15 to '2 in. long. 



