820 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



many-flowered paniculate corymbs reaching 9 in. long and 8 in. broad ; 

 peduncles stout, 3 to 4 in. long ; branches 3-chotomous at first, after- 

 wards 2-chotomous ; ultimate cymules crowded ; bracts linear, very 

 small, caducous ; pedicels short, slender ; flowers pale green. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, obscurely 2-lipped; the upper lip nearly entire, the lower entire 

 or obscurely toothed ; tube -05 in. long, glandular and puberulous, scaly 

 without. Corolla-tVihe funnel-shaped, puberulous, '125 in. long, densely 

 white-villous within except at the base ; 2-lipped, upper of 1 short 

 recurved lobe, lower of 3 recurved obtuse lobes, the midlobe the longest, 

 •075 in. long. Stamens e^Qexi ; the filaments twisted ; anthers ellipsoid, 

 divaricate. Ovary glabrous, depressed; style slender, nearly -25 in. long ; 

 stigma bifid with slender spreading lobes. Drupe globose, depressed, 

 much tuberculate and red when dry ; pyrene woody, tuberculate, roughly 

 4-angled. Seeds usually 1 only perfect, obovate, -1 in. long; testa mem- 

 branous ; cotyledons conform to the seed, fleshy ; radicle pointed. 



Peeak: at waterfall, Wray 1828; Scortechini; King's Collector 

 3067, 7531, 8373. 



Vae. cordata, King & Gamble, I. c. Leaves more deeply cordate at 

 base ; branches of inflorescence more distant than in type ; calyx with 

 upper lip 2-lobed, the lower entire or obscurely toothed. 



Peeak : Scortechini 273. 



13. Peemna Eidleyi, King & Gamble in Kew BuU. 109 (1908). A 

 climbing shrub ; branches stout, with grey shining bark ; branchlets 

 slender, terete, brown. Leaves chartaceous, opposite or sometimes one 

 of each pair rather higher than the other ; ovate, ovate-oblong or 

 slightly obovate, rounded or very shortly acute at apex, rounded or 

 attenuate often unequally at base ; both surfaces glabrous and dull ; 

 margins entire; 1-5 to 3 in. long, -75 to 1-5 in. broad ; midrib slender ; 

 main nerves 6 to 7 pairs, the lowest 1 or 2 pairs from the base, at an 

 angle of 30° to 40° with the midrib, straight at first, then gently curved 

 to and along the margin ; transverse nervules and reticulations faint ; 

 petiole slender, -25 to '5 in. long. Corymbs terminal, 1'5 to 5 in. long, 

 and 2 to 5 in. broad, many-flowered, tawny-puberulous ; peduncles 

 •75 to 2 in. long ; branches at first 3- afterwards 2-chotomous ; bracts 

 linear-lanceolate, small; pedicels none or minute; flowers greenish- 

 white. Calyx campanulate, subquadrangular, 2-lipped, each lip 2-lobed, 

 with minute teeth ; tube "05 in. long, puberulous. CoroUa-tnhe some- 

 what tubular, slender, -1 in. long, puberulous in the lower half within, 

 long white-viUous in the upper ; lobes 4, equal, oblong, rounded at tip, 

 •05 to ^075 in. long, incurved at length. Stamens inserted, 2 upper at 

 the top of the throat of the corolla-tube, 2 lower lower down ; filaments 

 slightly flattened, longexsert; anthers small; cells rounded, slightly 



