580 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



than the anthers. Staminal- column with filament-tube free from the 

 corona, otherwise short; anthers short, cells parallel ; appendages scari- 

 ous, ovate, curved over the style-apex ; pollen-masses flattened, oblong, 

 obliquely truncate with membranous margins, attached by broadly in- 

 flated cup-like caudicles to the conical pollen-carriers. Style-apex 

 5-angled, thick, concave above with a conical apiculus. Fruit not 

 seen. 



Perak : at Gunong Batu Pateh, 4300 ft., Wray 371. 



28. DiscHiDiA, Br. 



Herbs or undershrubs, usually epiphytic, climbing and rooting on 

 trees or pendulous from them, sometimes almost leafless. Leaves 

 usually opposite, fleshy, sometimes converted into pitchers [ascidia), 

 sometimes convex and sessile, rugose or bullate. Flowers very small, 

 often minute, white yellow or red, in axillary racemose or umbellate 

 cymes or fascicles; the rachis short, thick, tuberculate; peduncles stout. 

 Calyx small, 5-partite, membranous, with 5 glandular scales. Corolla 

 campanulate tubular or urceolate; the tube ovoid or globose or cylin- 

 dric ; the mouth usually contracted ; lobes 5, thick, valvate. Corona 

 staminal, of 5 membranous processes, adnate to the back of the 

 staminal-column, erect, the tips entire, notched or bifid or with in- 

 curved or recurved arms ; sometimes none or replaced by a corolline 

 corona (Subg. I. Conchophyllum). Staminal-column very short ; 

 filaments connate in a tube ; anthers erect, with membranous appen- 

 dages ; pollen-masses 1 in each cell, compressed, waxy, attached by 

 long curved caudicles, usually of cornucopia shape, to the hard oblong 

 pollen -carriers, caudicles in D. coccinea very short. Ovary of 2 carpels ; 

 styles short ; style-apex flat or with a conical sometimes capitate tip. 

 Fruit of 2 or 1 small slender or thick acuminate follicles ; pericarp 

 smooth. Seeds very small, flask-shaped, tipped with a long silky coma. 

 — DisTRiB. About 50 species : in tropical India, the Malay Peninsula 

 and Archipelago, the Philippine Islands, New Guinea and Australia. 



Staminal-corona absent (Subgenus I. Conchophyllum) : — 

 Corolla with a corona like a toothed hanging fold ; leaves of 

 two kinds— (1) orbicular, flattened ; (2) reniform, markedly 

 convex and bullate, under -75 in. long and 1 in. broad . . 1. D. astephana. 



Corolla with a corona like a thickened undulate fold ; leaves 

 of one kind (so far as known), reniform, slightly convex and 

 bullate, usually over 1 in. long and I'o in. broad . . 2. D. clepressa. 



Staminal-corona present, membranous, erect, with incurved or 



recurved arms (Subgenus II. Eudibchidia) : — ' 



