816 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Ovary rounded ; style as long as stamens ; stigma very shortly bifid. 

 Drupe ovoid, -25 in. long ; epicarp smooth ; pericarp fleshy ; endocarp 

 ribbed ; pyrenes 3- to 4-celled. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 681 ; Clarke 

 Id Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. IV. 575. P. lucidula, Kurz For. Fl. II. 263, 

 not of Miq. 



Penang : beach at Tanjong Bunga, Curtis 215. Bindings : Pang- 

 kore Island, Ridley 7180. Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 1198-9; at 

 Sungei Hudang, Goodenough 1350. Singapoee : gardens in scrub, 

 Bidley 10841. — Disteib. Java. 



7. Peemna teichostoma, Miq. M. Ind. Bat. II. 892 (1856). A 

 large climbing shrub, reaching to a considerable height, the stem 

 reaching 3 to 5 in. in diam. ; branchlets thick, shining, glabrous, pale 

 brown. Leaves at first chartaceous, afterwards subcoriaceous, very 

 variable; ovate- or obovate-elliptic, sometimes nearly orbicular, shortly 

 acuminate at apex or sometimes attenuately acute, rounded or subcor- 

 date or cuneate at base ; glabrous on both surfaces except on the 

 nerves ; margins entire or sometimes undulate at apex ; 4 to 7 in. long, 

 2 to 5 in. broad ; midrib slender, raised beneath ; main nerves 6 to 6 

 pairs, at from 30° to 45° with the midrib, the lowest pair from the base, 

 the next rather close, the rest distant, all straight at first, then branched 

 outwards and curved to join near the margin, raised on both surfaces 

 when old ; transverse nervules many ; petiole "75 to 1 in. long, pube- 

 rulous. Corymbs terminal, reaching 4 to 5 in. in diam., puberulous, 

 sessile or on 1 in. long peduncles ; branches 3- afterwards 2-chotomous, 

 thickening in fruit ; bracts lanceolate, short ; pedicels none ; flowers 

 cream-coloured. Calyx cup-shaped, obscurely tetragonous, puberulous 

 without, -05 to '07 in. long, 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-lobed, the lower 

 faintly 2-toothed or entire ; all teeth less prominent in fruit. Corolla 

 campanulate ; tube 4 in. long, densely villous within in the upper half ; 

 limb subequally 4-lobed, the lobes rounded, lower one slightly smaller, 

 all recurved. Stamens inserted at the mouth of the corolla-tube, long 

 exsert ; filaments slightly flattened ; anther-cells small, rounded, didy- 

 mous, opening by elongated pores. Stigma 2-fid, the divisions divaricate, 

 rather long. Drupe pyriform, 4-celled, one cell only enlarged and seed- 

 bearing. Seeds oblong, flattened ; testa membranous. Koord. & Val. 

 Bijdr. VII. 184. P. parasitica, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 574, 

 not of Blume. 



Kedah: Langkawi Island, Cz«-^is 2796. Peeak: at waterfall, 300 ft., 

 Wray 2403 ; Kitvg's Collector 3008, 10310; Scortechini 192. Malacca : 

 Griffith 6019. Johgee : Bidley lllSQ. Singapoee: Bidley 5026, 6828, 

 8914. — Disteib. Borneo (Haviland). 



8. Peemna peeakensis. King & Gamble in Kew Bull. 107 (1908). 



