590 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



11. DiscHiDiA ACUTiFOLiA, Maingay MS. ; Hook. f. El. Br. Ind. 

 IV. 51 (1883). A slender twining epiphytic undershrub, rather dis- 

 tantly rooting on the stems and branches of trees ; stems terete, 

 glabrous, striate when dry. Leaves coriaceous, pergamaceous when 

 dry ; lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate ; shining and glabrous on both sur- 

 faces ; margins recurved; 2-5 to 4 in. long, -75 to 1-25 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender, impressed above when dry ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, the lowest 

 pair close to the lower margin, all at from 40° to 60° with the midrib, 

 straight or curving to join an intramarginal looped nerve ; reticulations 

 netted ; petiole stout, "25 in. long. Umhels few-flowered, in pairs on 

 thickened rachises at the ends of '5 to 1-5 in. long peduncles ; pedicels 

 very short ; buds conical ; flowers pale yellow with pink tips. Calyx 

 very thin, membranous, hyaline ; lobes ovate-acute, "025 in. long. 

 Corolla urceolate ; tube globose, "05 in. long, throat with a row of 

 usually erect stiff hairs ; lobes as long, villous within, triangular, acute, 

 thickened. Corona of 5 exceedingly thin membranous hyaline processes ; 

 stem subulate from a broad base, top obtuse, rounded, with 2 rather 

 short spathulate recurved arms. Staminal- column somewhat elongate, 

 filament portion membranous ; anther-wings rounded ; appendages 

 crenate with erect acuminate tips ; pollen-masses oblong, truncate, on 

 cornucopia-shaped curved caudicles as long as themselves, and connected 

 by them to the very slender lanceolate brown pollen-carriers. Style- 

 apex pyramidal. Fruit not known. 



Perak : Scortechini. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1122. 



We were only able to dissect one flower, and that with some difficulty. In his 

 MS. notes (Vol. IV. pp. 48, 67) Maingay says: " Leaves of staminal-corona minute, so 

 closely adpressed to the anthers that I question if in dried specimens of so minute 

 a plant (flower ?) they could be discoverable at all; obtuse with short brachia." The 

 corona-processes are, in fact, excessively thin, but they can be separated with care. 



12. DiscHiDiA CORDIFOLIA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A creeping 

 epiphytic undershrub, rooting on the trunks and branches of trees ; 

 stems about as thick as a crowquill, terete ; internodes long. Leaves 

 fleshy, thinly coriaceous when dry; ovate, bluntly acute at apex, rounded 

 or slightly cordate at base ; both surfaces glabrous ; margins slightly 

 recurved ; 1"5 to 2-5 in. long, 1 to 1'75 in. broad ; 5- to 7-nerved at the 

 base ; midrib slender ; marginal pair of nerves very short and faint, 

 second pair curving up to about half the length of the leaf, third pair at 

 an angle of about 30° with the midrib, curving near the margins to form 

 an intramarginal nerve rejoining the midrib a little below the tip; other 

 main nerves none ; secondary nerves about 2 pairs ; reticulations irregu- 

 larly netted ; petiole '5 in. long, broad, flattened. Umbels few-flowered, 

 in pairs on tubercular rachises about -15 in. long at the ends of stout 



