588 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Dene. I.e.; Miq. I.e. 508. "■Nummularialactea viinor prima," Rumph. 

 Herb. Amb. V. 472, t. 176, fig. 1. 



Penang : Curtis ; Wallich 4204a. Peeak : Scortechini 1109. 

 Malacca: Griffith 3778; Maingaij (K.D.) 1118. Pahang : in heath 

 country Ridley (see Trans. Linn. Soc, Ser. 2, III. 321). Singapore : 

 Hullett 136, 822 ; King's Collector 1270. — Disteib. India (Cachar, 

 Chittagong, Tenasserim and Andaman Islands), Malay Archipelago, 

 Australia. " A most noxious epiphyte in Singapore, draping and 

 eventually killing trees" (Ridley, I. c). 



Scortechini 11.35 is probably this species, but ,the leaves are slightly ovate. The 

 specimen has no flowers. We cannot separate D. Gaudichaudii even by the retrorse 

 hairs in the throat of the corolla, for the character is most difficult to be sure 

 about in such minute flowers, and otherwise there seems to be no point of difference. 



9. DiscHiDiA albida. Griff. Notul. IV. 46 (1854). A slender twining 

 epiphytic herb or undershrub, rooting on the trunks and branches of 

 trees; stems very slender, scabrid-puberulous or glabrous. Leaves 

 fleshy, coriaceous when dry ; ovate-acute and mucronate at apex, 

 rounded or cordate and slightly peltate at base ; glabrous and shining 

 on both surfaces ; margins slightly recurved ; -5 to "75 in. long, -4 in. 

 broad ; nerves very faint when dry ; midrib slender ; main nerves 3 to 

 4 pairs, the lowest pair opposite starting from the base and forming an 

 intramarginal looped nerve up to the apex, the remaining 2 to 3 pairs 

 nearly horizontal joining the intramarginal nerve at the sinuses of the 

 loops ; reticulations few, netted; petiole stout, -1 to -15 in. long, puberu- 

 lous. Umbels few-flowered, on minutely tubercular, more or less thick 

 and elongated, rachises at the ends of '5 to '75 in. long rather stout 

 peduncles ; pedicels none or very slender, up to -06 in. long ; buds 

 ovoid, acute ; flowers white tipped with pink. Calyx membranous ; 

 lobes ovate-acute, '04 in. long ; scales minute. Corolla urceolate ; tube 

 ovate-globose, '15 in. long, white- villous at the throat ; lobes triangular, 

 erect, very small, with thickened margins. Corona very small, mem- 

 branous, of 5 processes attached to the base of the staminal-column, 

 linear, bifid ; the lobes broad, flat, recurved. Staminal-column rather 

 long, obconic below, conic above ; base with a rounded protuberance ; 

 anther- wings prominent ; anther-cells parallel ; appendages acuminate ; 

 pollen-masses ellipsoid, granular, seated on cornucopia-like flattened 

 caudicles as long as themselves, which connect them with the ovoid- 

 oblong rather large brown pollen-carriers. Style-apex with conical tip. 

 Follicles " very long-beaked, deeply channelled on the inner face " 

 (Griffith). " Seeds with very long slender coma" (Griffith). Hook. i. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 50. 



