604 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Species IjirERFECTLY Known. 

 Leaves broadly obovate, very coriaceous ; fruit 2 in. or 

 more in length, ovoid, apiculate . . . . . . M. F. Ridleyi. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, thin when dry ; fruit narrowly 

 ovoid, tapered to' the base, crowned by the remains of the 

 thick style . . . . . . . . .. 15. F. oblonga. 



1. Fage^a tubulosa, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1. 167 (1850). A 

 straggling, glabrous, climbing shrub ; branches half as thick as a goose- 

 quill, terete, pale, sending out rootlets at intervals on the bark of trees. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous ; oblong-elliptic, shortly abruptly acuminate, 

 the base cuneate ; both surfaces pale yellowish-green, and dull when 

 dry ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, inconspicuous on both surfaces ; midrib 

 conspicuous; length 4 to 8 in., breadth 1-75 to 2-5 in. ; petiole '8 to 

 1 in. long. Floivers about 3 in. long, sessile, 3 or 4 crowded in a sessile 

 glomerulus at the apex of a branch, with a subcampanulate bract, 

 •15 in. long, at the base of each. Calyx 4 in. long, fleshy, tubular ; the 

 mouth with 5 short, broad, imbricate teeth. Corolla 3 in. long, salver- 

 shaped ; the tube slender, cylindric, very slightly wider at the throat, 

 •1 in. in diam. ; limb divided to its base into 5 oblong-oblanceolate 

 lobes -45 in. long. Stamens attached near the mouth of the tube and 

 slightly exserted beyond it. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, tapering into a 

 glabrous style about as long as the corolla ; stigma capitate. Fruit 

 unknown. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 373. 



Peeak: Scortec/im* 1839 ; King's Collector 514:8; at Bujong Malacca, 

 Bidley 9738. — -Disteib. Bangka, Sumatra. 



2. Fage^a caenosa, Jack in Mai. Misc. II. n. 7, 81 (1822). Epiphytal, 

 glabrous ; young branches as thick as a swan's quill, smooth, pale brown 

 when dry. Leaves coriaceous; elliptic, sometimes subobovate or sub- 

 rotund, the apex rounded or subtruncate, mucronate ; edges recurved ; 

 upper surface when dry somewhat olivaceous, the lower dull brown ; 

 main nerves invisible on either surface ; midrib prominent on the lower, 

 depressed on the upper surface ; length 3 to 4*5 in. ; breadth 2 to 2-5 in. ; 

 petiole "4 to '5 in. long, swollen at the base. Flowers fleshy, about 6 in. 

 long, solitary or in pairs, terminal, with 2 or more short, woody, pointed 

 bracteoles at their bases, sessile or subsessile. Calyx narrowly cam- 

 panulate, nearly 1 in. long ; its tube very short ; the limb with 5 oblong, 

 blunt, suberect lobes. Corolla-tube 4 in. long, cylindric, '35 in. in diam. 

 at the middle, slightly wider towards the mouth ; limb campanulate, 

 about 1-25 in. across, with 5 broadly oblong, blunt, spreading lobes. 

 Stamens subsessile near the apex of the tube, included. Style slightly 

 longer than the tube. Fruit the size of a small hen's egg, but narrower 

 and more tapering to the apex. DC. Prodr. IX. 30 ; Benth. in Journ. 



