582 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. ', 



1. DiscHiDiA ASTEPHANA, Scortecliini MS. in Herb. Calc. A slender 

 creeping epiphytic herb, closely appressed to and rooting on the trunks 

 and branches of trees ; stems minutely scabrous-papillose and hirsute. 

 Leaves fleshy, sessile, appressed to the stem, dark red beneath, of 

 two kinds — (1) orbicular-villous, papillose, -25 to -35 in. in diam. ; 

 midrib slender ; main nerves about 2 pairs, very obscure ; and (2) 

 reniform, very obtuse, upper surface convex, bullate, lower concave 

 with broad pits, papillose with minute annular papillae, strigosely hir- 

 sute ; -5 to '75 in. long, -75 to 1 in. broad ; nerves visible on the under 

 surface only, irregular, branching, central one (midrib ?) thick. Umbels 

 few-flowered, on a thick tubercular rachis "25 in. long at the end of a 

 thick peduncle somewhat shorter; pedicels -1 in. long, angled; buds 

 5-angled, conical, -15 in. long ; flowers white. Calyx membranous ; 

 lobes oblong-obtuse, ciliate, hirsute beneath, "05 in. long ; scales minute. 

 Corolla urceolate ; tube 5-angied, -125 in. long, contracted at the mouth, 

 furnished within with a ring of stiff hairs below the mouth, and about 

 half-way down a coroUine corona consisting of a reflexed membranous 

 hanging annular fold with 5 bilobed teeth, otherwise glabrous ; lobes 

 ovate, "025 in. long, erect, pubescent within. Staminal-corona none. 

 Staminal-column conical, attached to the base of the corolla-tube ; fila- 

 ment-ring short ; anther-wings horny, large, 2-folded, spreading out- 

 wards ; anthers erect, cells parallel ; appendages very thin, acuminate, 

 connivent ; pollen-masses oblong or clavate, truncate, granular, seated 

 on rather long caudicles with cup-like apex, which connect them with 

 the large oblong shining pollen-carriers. Style-ajjex long, conical. 

 Follicle 1, lanceolate, 1-25 to 1-75 in. long, acuminate ; pericarp very 

 thin, opening out flat and 2-keeled ; placenta membranous. Seeds not 

 seen. 



Perak : at Bujong Malacca, Scortecliini 1897. Selangoe : at Bukit 

 Hitam, Bidley 6570 {in part). 



This very interesting species is closely allied to Conchophyllum imbricatum, Bl., 

 the " Pustula arborum " of Rumph. Herb. Amb. V. 473, t. 175, fig. 3. Beccari, in 

 Malesia, II. 258, maintains Blame's genus Conchophyllum, characterized by the 

 absence of a staminal corona. As, however, in all other respects the species seems to 

 us to bear the characters of Dischidia, we have preferred to retain it in that genus, as 

 was done by Scortechini, whose manuscript description in the Calcutta Herbarium 

 has been followed closely. 



2. Dischidia depeessa, C. B. Clarke, MS. in Herb. Kew. A slender 

 creeping epiphyte, closely appressed to and rooting on the stems 

 and branches of trees ; stems very slender, wiry ; rootlets extremely 

 numerous. Leaves fleshy, sessile, orbicular-reniform, flattened or 

 somewhat convex and slightly bullate on the upper surface, glabrous or 



