<^'86 Flora of the Malaijan Pemnsula. 



Peeak : at Larut, Kunstler. Malacca : on islands, growing on 

 Anacardiwn, Maingay (K.D.) 1117. Pahang : near Pekan and Kwala 

 Pahang, Biclley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 320. Singapgee : 

 Wallich 4208 ; Kurz ; Deschanqos ; Kunstler {King's Collector) 1209. — 

 DiSTRiB. India (Cachar, Tenasserim), Borneo, Australia. A coast plant, 

 abundant in dry spots near the sea, disappearing inland {Biclley). The 

 pitchers are usually occupied by ants. 



6. DiscHiDiA COMPLEX, Griff. Notul. IV. 50 (1854). A twining 

 epiphyte, growing and rooting on the stems and branches of trees ; 

 stems very slender, terete. Leaves replaced by pitchers {ascidia), the 

 pitchers subreniform, compressed, about 2 in. in diam.,the orifice small, 

 near the petiole, its margin inflexed, formed into a second pitcher much 

 smaller than the outer one, opening on each side by an oblique opening 

 deeply furrowed on the upper, carinate on the lower, side ; the outer 

 cavity filled with rootlets, the inner surfaces lurid purple. Floioers 

 subumbellate, white, on thickened rachises at the ends of 1 to 3 in. long 

 stout peduncles. Corolla with sub-globose tube, scarcely narrowed at 

 the mouth ; lobes broadly ovate, fleshy, inflexed ; the throat of the 

 corolla closed with a ring of hairs. Coro7ia-processes with long narrow^ 

 arms dilated at the tips. Staminal-coliimn truncate ; pollen-masses 

 subobovate, attached by much dilated long keeled caudicles to the 

 pollen-carriers (from Griffith). Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 51 ; Beccari 

 Malesia II. 265. 



Malacca : Griffith, on trees. 



7. DiscHiDiA BBNGHALENSis, Colcbr. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XII. 357, 

 t. 15 (1817). A fleshy epiphytic undershrub, rooting on the trunk and 

 branches of trees, often matted and often hanging in flagelliform sprays ; 

 stems rather stout, as thick as a goosequill, glabrous, winged when dry. 

 Leaves very fleshy, thick, subsessile ; linear-oblong elliptic obovate or 

 'spathulate, obtuse and apiculate at apex, attenuate at base ; -5 to 2 in. 

 long, -25 to '75 in. broad ; midrib and nerves scarcely ever visible, in 

 dried specimens sometimes 3 to 5 pairs of main nerves at an acute 

 angle with the midrib ; petiole twisted, "1 to -15 in. long. Umbels 

 axillary, very short-peduncled, about 10-flowered, usually on stout en- 

 larged rachises ; pedicels '05 to "1 in. long, slender ; buds ovoid; flowers 

 pale yellowish- white. Calyx fleshy; lobes ovate, "03 in. long. Corolla 

 urceolate, glabrous on both sides; tube globose, "05 to -1 in. indiam. ; 

 lobes triangular, acute, '03 in. long, thickened within. Corona of 

 5 slender processes, membranous ; stalk linear, branching in 2 falcate 

 recurved subulate laciniae. Staminal-column short ; anther-wings 

 spreading ; appendages short, connivent ; pollen-masses falcate, trun- 

 cate above, joined by a curved cup-shaped caudicle half as long as 



