592 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



D. monticola. In the glabrous flowers D. monticola and D. cordifolia come very near 

 to each other. 



14. DiscHiDiA ScoRTBCHiNii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender 

 glabrous creeping epiphytic undershrub, sparingly rooting on and often 

 pendulous from the trunks and branches of trees ; stems terete ; inter- 

 nodes long, 2 to 4 in. or more. Leaves fleshy, pergamaceous when dry; 

 ovate-lanceolate, attenuately acuminate at apex, rounded at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces ; 2 to 2-5 in. long, about -5 in. broad ; 

 3- to 5-nerved ; midrib slender, raised beneath, sometimes with a gland 

 at the base ; lowest pair of nerves short and faint ; next pair prominent 

 forming an intramarginal looped nerve "1 to "15 in. from the midrib 

 nearly or quite to the tip ; main nerves about 4 to 5 pairs, leaving the 

 midrib at nearly right angles, and joining the intramarginal nerve at 

 the loop-sinuses; reticulations netted; petiole -15 to -20 in. long, rugose. 

 Umbels few- (5- to 6-) flowered, on short rounded tubercular thick 

 rachises at the ends of stout axillary -3 in. long peduncles ; pedicels 

 reddish, slender, -05 in. long; buds lanceolate-ovoid, -15 to '2 in. long; 

 flowers white tipped with scarlet. Calyx membranous ; lobes ovate- 

 acute, "05 in. long, slightly puberulous without ; scales very minute. 

 Corolla urceolate ; tube ovoid, glabrous without, pubescent above 

 within, -125 in. long ; throat gradually contracted ; lobes erect, -1 in. 

 long, thickly villous within, especially in their lower half. Corona of 

 5 exceedingly thin membranous processes, attached to the backs of the 

 anther part of the column, each process on a narrow base, soon 

 spreading into a rounded obtusely sagittate tip. Staminal- column 

 rather long ; filament portion free ; anther-wings broad, shining, horny ; 

 anther-cells parallel, with acuminate, erect, connivent, membranous 

 appendages ; pollen-masses oblong-ellipsoid, attached by slender 

 caudicles as long as themselves to the very narrow slender pollen- 

 carriers ; the caudicles cornucopia-shaped, with a narrow membranous 

 wing on the inside edge. Style-apex long-conical, membranous. 

 Follicles not known. 



Perak : Scortechini 543. 



We at first thought that this was D. lanceolata, Dene. (Leptostemma lanceolatiim, 

 Bl. Bijdr. 1057), but in that species the bases of the leaves are markedly attenuate 

 into the broad flat petiole, and the venation is more strongly 3- to 5-nerved. 



15. DiscHiDiA TUBuiiiFj^GEA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender 

 creeping epiphytic undershrub, rooting on the trunk and branches of 

 trees ; stems wiry, puberulous. Leaves fleshy, coriaceous when dry ; 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex, rounded at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces, shining above and wrinkled when dry ; 

 margins recurved ; -75 to 1-25 in. long, -3 to -6 in. broad ; nerves only 



