Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 857 



short, -1 in. long ; upper lip -075 in. long, acute or rounded, often 

 2-lobed ; lower lip acutely 2-lobed, the lobes -05 in. long. CoroZZa-tube 

 slender, -45 in. long, very glandular ; upper lip shortly 2-lobed ; lower 

 lip 3-lobed, side lobes short, narrow, midlobe longer, obtuse. Anther- 

 cells, with a short rounded beak. Otherwise as in type. 



Perak: at Ulu Bubong, in open jungle at 400 to 600 ft., King's 

 Collector 10605. Teingganu : at Bunda, Bostado (Herb. Bidley 11982). 

 — DisTEiB. Sumatra (Forbes 2685). 



This is a well-marked variety, but is not quite deserving of specific rank. 



Tribe III. Cartopteeide^. 

 11. Peeonema, Jack. 



A small tree ; branchlets grey-tomentose. Leaves opposite, impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets sub-opposite, in several pairs, entire. Inflorescence of 

 large compound, spreading, terminal, trichotomous panicles of corym- 

 bose cymes ; flowers very small ; bracts small, setaceous. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, 5-partite, not accrescent. Coro/Za-tube short ; limb 2-lipped, 

 5-lobed, the midlobe of the lower lip longer than the rest. Stamens 2, 

 involute in bud, exsert ; anthers broadly ovate-reniform with parallel 

 cells. Ovary 4-celled, the cells l-ovrded ; style filiform ; stigma entire 

 or bifid ; ovules attached laterally near the top of the placenta. Fruit 

 a small globose capsule of 4 crustaceous valves, the valves separating 

 from the base together with the adjoining portions of the central 

 placenta. Seeds attached centrally near their top, pendulous, exal- 

 buminous ; testa thin, as are the cotyledons ; radicle minute. — Disteib. 

 One species, Malayan. 



Peeonema canescens, Jack in Mai. Misc. II. No. 7, 46 (1822). A 

 small tree ; bark grey ; branchlets stout, grey, obtusely quadrangular ; 

 pith quadrangular. Leaves chartaceous, reaching 1 to 2 ft. in length ; 

 pinnules 7 to 9 pairs, the upper pairs usually opposite, the lower sub- 

 opposite or nearly alternate ; the rachis winged, the wings narrow, from 

 •05 to '25 in. broad ; petiole 2 to 7 in. long; leaflets sessile, lanceolate, 

 acuminate at apex, cuneate at base, gradually increasing in size up- 

 wards, from 1 in. by -5 in. at the base to as much as 9 in. by 2-5 in. at 

 the tip ; upper surface glabrous, lower puberulous, tawny-canescent ; 

 margins entire or serrate ; midrib prominent ; main nerves 20 to 30 

 pairs, regular, straight, joined by loops near the margin ; reticulations 

 netted. Panicle reaching 12 in. in length and about 20 in. in breadth, 

 tawny-puberulous ; peduncle stout ; rachis quadrangular ; lower 

 branches opposite, long- (4 to 5 in.) peduncled, ending, as the upper 

 ones, in corymbose, many-flowered cymes ; bracts scarcely "2 in. long, 



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