24 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, often large, usually lurid; terminal, axillary 
or lateral ; solitary , racemose or cymose ; bracts various, often wanting. 
Perianth simple, more or less adnate to the top of the ovary, regular 
or irregular, 3-lobed or tubular and variously shaped, the lobes valvate. 
Stamens 6 or more, adnate in 1 or, 2 series to the style-column ; cells 
parallel, extrorse, opening longitudinally. Ovary 4—6-celled; pla- 
centas parietal, free or meeting in the axis; ovules numerous, an- 
atropous ; style columnar ending in stigmatic lobes. Fruit capsular 
or baccate. Seeds numerous, horizontal or pendulous; albumen 
fleshy, copious, embryo minute-——Distris. Species about 200, 
chiefly tropical. 
Perianth regular ; ovary 4-celled ; capsule elongate 
Stamens uniseriate. . a #6 .. 1. APAMA. 
Stamens biseriate .. .. 2. THOTTEA. 
Perianth irregular, usually tubular ih an inated base and 
expanded limb ; capsule not elongate wife .. 93. ARISTOLOCHIA. 
1. Apama, Lamk. 
Shrubs or undershrubs, with stellate hairs or glabrate. Leaves 
alternate, petiolate, 3—5-ribbed, nerves and reticulations promment 
beneath ; stipules 0. Flowers in axillary or terminal or sub-radical 
bracteate cymes. Perianth shortly campanulate, equally 3-lobed, val- 
vate. Stamens 6 to 12, uniseriate, free or connate around the style ; 
anthers extrorse; cells 2; connective thick. Ovary inferior, elongate, 
4-celled ; style short ; stigmas 3 or more, free or spreading in a flattened 
disk ; ovules numerous, uniseriate in vertical rows from the axis, 
pendulous. Capsule elongate, 4-gonous, the keeled valves dehiscing 
septicidally from the central placenta of cruciform section. Seeds 
very many, oblong, trigonous, sometimes winged, attached in the 
furrows of the placenta in a vertical row; testa rugose, with a 
crustaceous outer and a membranous inner integument ; albumen 
fleshy ; embryo minute.—Distris. Species 4 or 5, India and Malaya, 
one species in China. 
Style column expanded in a disk ; perianth-tube spreading ; 
stamens more than 6, short, connate ; leaf-ribs reaching 
nearly to the apex of the ovate long acuminate leaf (Sect. 
1. BRAGANTIA) at ..1. A. corymbosa. 
Style column divided in 3 Hest peice ; Be thine 
urceolate-campanulate ; stamens 6, long, free ; leaf-ribs 
reaching scarcely to the middle of the ode nee eeine 
acute leaf (Sect. 2. CycLopiscus) oe ..2. A. tomentosa. 
