858 Flora of the Malayan Pemnsida. 



bracteoles very small, numerous ; pedicels slender, very short ; buds 

 globose; flowers white. Calyx -1 in. long ; lobes acute, glabrous within. 

 Corolla glabrous within, pubescent without ; lower midlobe -15 in. long, 

 the rest -1 in. Stamens deflexed ; filaments thickened towards the base. 

 Ovary villous, as is the base of the style. Capsule densely tawny- 

 pubescent, -125 in. broad, -1 in. long. Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. I. 152 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 9075 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 627 ; Wight Ic. t. 1460 ; 

 Griff. Notul. IV. 177 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 909 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. IV. 599 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 214. P. heterojjhyllum, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 570. 



Penang : Eacecourse, Curtis 2427. Peeak : at Ijuk, Scortechini 

 1160. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 6015. Pahang : Bidley 2247. 

 SiNGAPOEE : at Bukit Mandai, Bidley 3993. — Disteib. Sumatra {Teys- 

 mann, Forbes 2655), Java, Borneo {Motley 870). 



12. Pete^ovitex, Oliver. 



Shrubs, usually climbing. Leaves opposite, simple or 3-foliolate or 

 bipinnate, petiolate. Inflorescence of terminal or axillary paniculate 

 cymes with puberulous spreading branches ; bracts subulate ; flowers 

 very small, shortly pedicellate. Calyx short, campanulate, much accres- 

 cent after flowering, the tube then long, and the lobes converted into 

 oblanceolate scarious reticulate wings. Corolla oblique, 2-lipped ; the 

 lobes obtuse, incurved at the tip. Stamens 4, subequal or didynamous ; 

 exsert or included ; anthers oblong ; cells parallel. Ovary obovoid, 

 imperfectly 2-celled, cells 2-ovuled ; ovules pendulous ; style slender ; 

 stigma bifid. Fruit capsular, oblong or wedge-shaped ; exocarp thin. 

 Seeds 2 (or 1 by suppression), attached to the central placenta ; testa 

 membranous ; albumen none ; cotyledons oblong or obovate, emarginate, 

 fleshy ; radicle thick, inferior. — Disteib. About 3 species, native of the 

 Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Tawny-pubescent ; leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets under 3 in. long ; 



capsule prominently ribbed .. .. .. .. 1. P. Scortechmii. 



Glabrous or very slightly puberulous ; leaves 1 to 3-foliolate, 



leaflets over 3 in. long; capsule not ribbed . . . . 2. P. hamhtisetornm. 



1. PETEiEOViTEX ScoETECHiNii, King & Gamble in Kew Bull. 113 

 (1908). A shrub, perhap sclimbing ; branchlets pale brown, somewhat 

 angular, puberulous ; innovations tawny-pubescent. Leaves opposite, 

 membranous, trifoliolate ; end leaflet ovate, shortly and obtusely acute 

 at apex, rounded or slightly cuneate at base ; 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 2 in. 

 broad ; upper surface minutely pubescent, lower grey-pubescent ; margins 

 entire or undulate, main nerves 4 paii^s, curving sharply upwards ; sidq 



