606 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



2 pairs of broadly ovate, acute, fleshy bracteoles. Calyx -7 to '9 in. long, 

 very coriaceous, narrowly campanulate, cut one-third of the way down 

 into 5 rounded lobes. Corolla thickly coriaceous, 3-25 in. long, funnel- 

 shaped ; tube 1"75 in. long, much widened towards the mouth ; limb 

 spreading, with 5 deep broadly elliptic lobes, with obtusely, minutely, 

 and bluntly apiculate apices. Stamens slightly exserted ; anthers ob- 

 long, blunt. Fruit unknown. 



Kedah : in Langkawi Island, Curtis 1676. 



5. FAGE.EA OBOVATA, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II., 33 

 (1824). Scandent, glabrous, epiphytic ; young branches nearly as thick as 

 a goosequill, brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous ; oblong-oblanceolate to 

 elliptic sometimes obovate, the apex abruptly and shortly acuminate 

 or mucronate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces brown when dry, the 

 upper tinged olivaceous ; main nerves almost invisible ; midrib very 

 prominent on the lower surface, less so on the upper ; length 3-5 (rarely 

 2-5 in.) to 5 in., breadth 1*5 to 2-25 in. (rarely only 1 in.) ; petiole -6 to 

 1 in. long, swollen at the base. Floioers 2 to 2-25 in. long, sessile or on 

 peduncles -3 in. long, in small terminal sessile cymes of 4 or 5 ; the 

 cymes with 2 thick oblong bracts at their bases. Calyx -5 to -75 in. long, 

 •4 in. wide, tubular with 2 thick triangular bracteoles at the base ; lobes 

 of limb ovate-elliptic or subrotund, obtuse. Corolla funnel-shaped, 1'8 

 to 2-15 in. long ; the tube '75 in. long, narrowly cylindric below, wider 

 upwards ; limb 1*5 in. wide, deeply cut into 5 oblong, blunt, spreading 

 lobes ; filaments slender, attached near the apex of the tube, shorter 

 than the corolla-lobes ; anthers included, oblong, deeply cleft at the 

 base. Ovary elliptic ; style slightly shorter than the anthers ; stigma 

 capitate. Fr^dt elliptic-ovoid, smooth, shining, crowned by the short 

 remains of the style, 1-5 in. long. Wall. Cat. 1595 ; Blume Bijdr. 1021 

 and Eumph. II. t. 75 ; DC. Prodr. IX. 29 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4205 ; Griff 

 Notul. IV. 35, and Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 382 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 369 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 83 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 205. F. crassi- 

 folia, Blume Eumph. II. 78, fig. 1, and Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 166 

 Thwaites Enum. 200; Miq. I.e. 373 ; Wall. Cat. 1602. F. malaharica and 

 F. obovato-javana, Blume Eumph. II. 29, t. 75, and Mus. Bot. I. c. 164 

 Wight Ic. 1317. F. Blumei, Steud. ; DC. I. c. 30. F. coromandeliana 

 Wight Ic. 1316; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 224. F. celebica, Blume Mus. Bot 

 I. c. 167. F. globosa, Wall. Cat. 1598 ; DC. I. c. 29. Willughbeia 

 obovata, Spreng. Syst. euro, post. 71. 



Kedah : Curtis. Penang : Curtis 246, 2432, 3013. Pbrak : Wray 

 1139, 2115, 2248, 2426, 2714, 3075, 4181, 4269 ; Scortechini 202, 758 ; 

 Kinrj's Collector 3122, 4024, 4878, 5748, 6214, 6438, 7553, 7578, 8855, 

 10109, 10634, 10776. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3737 ; Mamgay (K.D.) 



