584 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



major, Vahl in Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Copenh. VI. 110 ; Wight Contrib. 

 66 [in part). 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 1114 (perhaps also, but doubtfully, K.D. 

 1116, with rather large flatter leaves and frequent pustules) ; Griffith 

 3779. SiNGAPOBE : Walker. — Distrib. Burma {Wallich 4207), Java. 



We do not feel (any more than, apparently, did the author of the Fl. Br. Ind.) 

 quite sure of the identification of Griffith's specimens with those herein described 

 (Maingay 1114), but believe that they correctly belong to this plant, representing 

 terminal small-leaved sprays. Conchophyllmn imbricatum, Bl. Bijdr. 1061, cannot be 

 this species, as it is described as having no staminal corona-processes. 



4. DiscHiDiA cocciNEA, Griff. Notul. IV. 45 (1854), and Ic. PI. 

 Asiat. CCCCIX. A small creeping epiphyte, trailing over and rooting on 

 the stems and branches of trees ; stems slender, smooth or papillose or 

 with rounded warts ; rootlets very numerous and spreading. Leaves 

 fleshy, coriaceous when dry, sessile ; orbicular, convex above, the 

 margins broadly recurved, wrinkled above and with prominent large 

 bullate protuberances, pitted below by the protuberances and minutely 

 papillose, white when young, red when old ; "5 to 1 in. in diam. ; mid- 

 rib and 1 to 2 pairs of branching nerves prominent beneath. Umhels 

 about 5- to 6-flowered, on short enlarged rachises at the ends of thick 

 peduncles about -1 in. long; the peduncles in pairs in the axils of the 

 leaf-pairs; pedicels slender, clavate, -15 to -2 in. long; buds broadly 

 conical ; flowers scarlet with lilac tips. Calyx membranous, hyaline ; 

 lol^es very small, obtuse, glabrous. Corolla urceolate; tube gradually 

 attenuate upwards from an inflated base, "1 in. long, slightly puberulous 

 without, glabrous within, with an undulately 5-lobed ridge at a little 

 above half height ; lobes triangular-ovate, thickened, "03 in. long, 

 glabrous. (7oro7ia-processes 5, membranous, linear, with an emarginate 

 top bearing broad incurved lobes. Staminal-colunm slender; the anther- 

 wings minutely horned ; appendages ovate-acute, connivent over the 

 style-apex ; pollen-masses oblong, slender, attached by minute cup- 

 shaped caudicles to the ovoid dark brown pollen-carriers. Style-apex 

 5-angled, conical with a subulate capitate tip. Follicles (usually 2) 

 about 1 in. long, curved and much recurved, rather broad ; pericarp 

 crustaceous, smooth. Seeds obovoid, '05 in. long, the base minutely 

 winged, the wing dentate ; testa thin, pale brown ; albumen scanty ; 

 cotyledons very small, 3 to 4 times smaller than the ovoid fleshy 

 radicle. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 51. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 1119; Griffith 3780. Perak: at 4000 to 

 4500 feet near Lariit, King's Collector 3840, 6905 ; at Gunong Ijuk, 

 Scortechini 1185. 



