618 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



stout ; inner pair of ribs more slender from a short distance only above the 

 base, at about 40° with the midrib, slightly looped above ; outer pair incon- 

 spicuous, much looped ; main nerves 3 to 4 pairs, joining the midrib and 

 side nerves and nearly straight ; secondary nerves many, arched ; reticu- 

 lations fairly conspicuous ; petiole -15 in. long. Cymes small, axillary, 

 scarcely reaching -5 in. long, -75 in. broad; sessile, rufous-pubescent; 

 branches trichotomous ; pedicels slender, -1 in. long ; bracteoles linear, 

 small ; buds small, oblong. Calyx very small ; lobes ovate, acute, 

 •05 in. long. Corolla-tvhe campanulate, '06 in. long, glabrous within, 

 puberulous without ; lobes a little shorter than tube, also glabrous 

 within, but with a thick white tuft of bristly hairs at the base of each. 

 Stamens inserted at about two-thirds of the height of the tube ; 

 filaments very short ; anthers ovate, apiculate, retrorsely villous-hairy 

 below. Ovary globose, glabrous ; style very short ; stigma capitate. Berry 

 globose or oblong, '5 to 1"25 in. in diam., few-seeded ; pericarp thick. Seeds 

 ovate-oblong, compressed, "To in. long by '5 in. broad ; albumen thin. 



Perak : at Tapa and Eelan Tujor, Wray 1334, 4033 ; at Campar, 

 Bidley 9698 ; King's Collector 3973, 6199, 10187. Malacca : Maingay 

 (K.D.) 1034. Selangob : at Kwala Lumpor, Curtis 2398. 



We have felt a little doubt about this species, which is merely represented by one 

 fruiting specimen in the Kew Herbarium ; but believe the identifications to be correct. 

 The flowers are described from Curtis's specimen, the fruits from Maingay's and 

 Wray's 1334. 



7. Steychnos malaccensis, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I. 101 

 (1857). A climbing shrub ; branchlets dark brown, terete, puberulous ; 

 nodes slightly swollen ; tendrils pubescent, single or in pairs, reaching 

 1 to 2 in. in length, circinate, thickened upwards but again reduced at 

 the tip, each replacing a leaf at the ends of the branchlets. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous ; ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute at apex, cuneate to rounded at 

 base ; glabrous on both surfaces, except in young leaves and on the 

 midrib beneath ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; 3- to 5-ribbed ; 

 midrib slender, impressed above ; inner pair of ribs from about -5 in. 

 above the base, starting at an angle of about 30° with the midrib, curving 

 upwards to the apex, looped in the upper third ; outer pair intra- 

 marginal, slender, looped; main nerves about 5 pairs, straight from the 

 midrib to the inner ribs ; reticulations many, in an elegant network ; 

 petiole '2 to -3 in. long, slender. Cymes axillary, corymbose, reaching 1 

 in. long and broad, fulvous-pubescent ; peduncles -3 in. long ; bracteoles 

 very small ; pedicels slender ; flowers small, greyish-white ; buds obovoid. 

 Calyx very small ; tube short ; lobes ovate, acute, ciliate, puberulous, 

 •05 in. long. 6'oro^/a-tube campanulate, -06 to '07 in. long, minutely 



