Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 817 



A shrubby climber; branches brown, sparsely lenticellate, glabrous, 

 smooth. Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous ; elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, 

 sometimes -obovate, shortly and bluntly acute at apex, narrowed or 

 cuneate at base ; both surfaces glabrous, even the nerves, slightly 

 rugose; margins entire, slightly recurved ; 3 to 5 in. long, 1-5 to 2-25 in. 

 broad ; midrib stout, impressed above, raised beneath ; main nerves 

 5 to 6 pairs, also impressed above and raised beneath, the lowest pair 

 opposite and from close to the base, starting at from 25° to 40° with the 

 midrib and nearly straight, curving only near the margin where they 

 form a looped intramarginal nerve ; transverse nervules many, incon- 

 spicuous ; petiole "5 to '75 in. long, glabrous, channelled above. Corymbs 

 spreading, tawny-puberulous, reaching 6 in. in length and in diam., 

 3-chotomous, afterwards 2-chotomous, sessile or on stout peduncles 

 2 to 3 in. long ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, those of lower divisions leafy ; 

 pedicels ; flowers pale green with white stamens. Calyx obscurely 

 quadrangular, pubescent, nerved, the nerves prominent in fruiting 

 examples, "06 in. long ; 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-lobed, the lower entire 

 or obscurely 2-lobed. Corolla funnel-shaped ; the tube "125 in. long, 

 densely white-villous in the upper half ; limb subequally 4-lobed, the 

 lobes recurved, ciliate. Stamens inserted at the mouth of the corolla- 

 tube, long exsert ; filaments somewhat flattened ; anther-cells nearly 

 globose, didymous, opening by circular pores ; connective glandular. 

 Ovary glabrous ; style long exsert ; stigma divaricately 2-fid. Drupe 

 smooth, pyriform, one cell only fertile. Seed ovate-oblong, flattened ; 

 testa membranous. 



Peeak: in rocky places in forest, at 800 to 1000 ft.. King's Collector 

 7247, 10738 ; Scortechini 516. 



This species comes very near to P. tricJwstoma, but has several important points 

 of difference, such as the narrower, thicker leaves with glabrous nerves, the darker 

 branches, the markedly nervose fruiting calyx, the large bracts, and the round open- 

 ings of the anther-cells, so that we have preferred to describe it as a species instead of 

 as a variety. In the corolla it nearly agrees, as also it does in the absence of pedicels 

 and the one-seeded, pyriform drupe. 



9. Peemna punctulata, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 575 

 (1885). A shrub or small tree; branchlets dark brown, terete, lenti- 

 cellate. Leaves chartaceous ; broadly elliptic, suddenly shortly acumi- 

 nate at apex, rounded at base ; upper surface glabrous, shining, lower 

 surface paler, reddish, puncticulate, pubescent on the nerves ; margins 

 entire ; 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; midrib prominent ; main 

 nerves 4 to 5 pairs, the lowest pair very small, close to the base, the 

 next pair a little above, the rest more distant, all curving upwards to 



