Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 593 



clear on under-surface ^Yheu dry ; midrib slender, with usually a gland 

 at tlie base above ; main nerves 3 to 5 pairs, acutely curved to join in a 

 looped intramarginal nerve ; petiole -1 to -25 in. long, pubescent. 

 Umbels few-flowered, on a cylindrical tubercular rachis about -25 in. 

 long at the end of a thick -15 in. long peduncle; buds slender, cylindric- 

 clavate, reaching -4 to -5 in. long. Calyx membranous ; lobes ovate- 

 acute, "05 in. long, pubescent without. Corolla tubular, urceolately 

 inflated below, then contracted in a neck having a small swelling in the 

 middle ; glabrous without, glabrous within, except a densely villous 

 ring at the swelling ; tube -3 to 4 in. long ; lobes linear, erect, -1 to 

 •15 in. long, villous within. Corona of 5 exceedingly thin hyaline 

 processes, which are inserted between the anther- wings, have narrow 

 stalks, and are broadly rounded above and sagittate below. Staminal- 

 colmnn elongated ; filament part cylindric, 'OTo in. long ; anther- wings 

 horny, tailed at base ; anther-cells parallel, with long-acuminate erect 

 connivent appendages ; pollen-masses oblong-ellipsoid, on slender 

 caudicles as long as themselves, and connecting them with the ovoid- 

 acute pollen-carriers ; the caudicles cornucopia-shaped, and having a 

 hyaline inner margin. Style-apex long, subulate-acuminate. Follicle 1, 

 slender, curved, 2 in. long, -1 in. broad, acuminate at tip ; pericarp 

 thin, striate, glabrous. Seeds minute, linear, -1 in. long, tipped with a 

 white silky coma ; testa thin, pale. 



Peeak : Scortechini 256, 465 ; King's Collector 2100. 



The description is from Scortechini 465, the only specimen with flowers and fruit, 

 and the only one, consequently, quite certain. 



Species of which Leaves only Known. 



16. DiscHiDiA Deschampsii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A twining 

 apparently epiphytic undershrub, rooting on the stems and branches of 

 trees ; branches slender, terete. Leaves coriaceous ; eUiptic or elliptic- 

 ovate, bluntly acute at apex, somewhat rounded at base; glabrous on 

 both surfaces and somewhat shining ; margins recin'ved ; 1-5 to 3 in. 

 long, -75 to 1 in. broad; midrib slender, raised beneath when chry: 

 main nerves about 5 pairs, the lowest pair from the base forming 

 a looped intramarginal nerve, which is joined at its sinuses by the 

 others, which are at an angle of about 70^ with the midrib ; reticula- 

 tions irregular, prominent, all raised on both sm'faces when dry ; petiole 

 thick, "15 to "25 in. long. Umbels on thickened rachises often -5 to 

 •75 in. long, at the ends of stout peduncles about 1 in. long. Floicers 

 and Fruit unknown. 



Sing.apoee : roadsides, Deschamps. 



