614 Flora of the Malayan Peninstila. 



Corolla-tube much longer than the lobes : — 

 Corolla-tube nearly -25 in. long ; lobes •! in. long ; stamens 

 inserted at top of tube ; berry large, many-seeded ; leaves 

 glabrous, rather small . . . . . . ..U.S. Tieute. 



1. Steychnos Maingayi, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 88 

 (1883). A stout climbing shrub ; branches rough, brown ; branchlets 

 somewhat angular, nearly black, densely studded with white prominent 

 lenticels ; nodes swollen and marked by a prominent raised ring ; tendrils 

 puberulous, in pairs, about 1 in. long, circinate, thickened upwards, sup- 

 ported by 2 small acute stipules on a -5 to 1 in. long stalk, each pair 

 replacing a leaf near the ends of the branchlets. Leaves coriaceous ; 

 elliptic, acuminate atapex, rounded at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, 

 olivaceous -brown when dry ; 3 to 6 in. long, 1*25 to 3 in. broad ; 3- to 

 5-ribbed ; midrib stout, pale beneath and much raised, impressed above ; 

 inner pair of side ribs from close above the base, curved upwards, 

 parallel to the margin and looped in the upper half ; outside of them 

 and close to the margin a second pair, more or less inconspicuous, also 

 intramarginal and looped ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, commencing from 

 the midrib about half-way up, very rarely opposite, straight or nearly 

 so to join the principal pair of ribs at the loop sinuses ; secondary 

 nerves few, branching ; reticulations irregular, prominent ; petiole "15 to 

 •25 in. long, channelled above. Cymes axillary, sessile, paniculate, 

 reaching 4 in. in length, much branched, the branches short, the 

 rachis angular, pubescent; bracteoles ovate-acute, ciliate, '05 to '1 in. 

 long ; flowers extremely numerous, very small ; buds obovoid, rounded 

 at tip. Calyx very small ; tube short ; lobes spreading, ovate-acute, 

 ciliate, "03 in. long. CoroUa-tuhe very short, about -025 in. long, 

 glabrous without, long tawny-villous within ; lobes linear-oblong, "1 to 

 •125 in. long, reflexed in flower. Stamens inserted near top of tube, 

 nearly as long as corolla-lobes ; filaments slender, villous ; anthers 

 "04 to "05 in. long, ovate, densely long-villous-hairy. Ovary rounded, 

 glabrous ; style slender ; stigma capitate. Berry globose, about -5 to 

 1 in. in diam. ; endocarp smooth, black when dry. Seeds few, flattened, 

 orbicular, -5 in. in diam. ; testa coriaceous ; cotyledons cordate, 3- to 5- 

 nerved ; radicle short, stout. 



Penang: Curtis 3667. Perak : ScortecUni 1026; Wray 2009, 

 3112, 4279 ; Kincj's Collector 6291, 8190. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 

 1041, 1042. Singapore : Bidley 5045. 



2. Strychnos Curtisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A large climbing 

 shrub, the stems reaching 6 in. in diam. ; branchlets pale brown, dull, 

 somewhat angular, dotted with prominent white lenticels which are 

 often elongate, uppermost pubescent ; nodes swollen and with a pale 



