28 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Klotzsch in Monatsb. Berl. Akad. (1859) 589 ; Duchart. in DC. Prodr. 
XV. i. 428; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 1068; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 
74; Ridley in Journ. Str. Br. R. As. Soc. (1900) 127. 
PERAK : dense jungle near Ulu Kerling, 150—250 m. alt., King’s 
Collector 8770!. Matacca: Griffith K. D. 4439!; Maingay K. D. 
1318! ; at Belimbing, Hervey! ; Hullett 204! ; at Bukit Benang, Curtis 
3662!. Smncapore: Oxley!; Lobb 594!; T. Anderson 192!; Kurz! ; 
at Selitar and Bukit Mandai, Ridley 178!, 4691!. Vern. ‘‘Seburut ”’ 
(Ridley). 
2. THOTTEA DEPENDENS, Klotzsch in Monatsh. Berl. Akad. 
589 (1859). A shrub, reaching 1—2°5 m. in height ; branches stout, 
fistular, glabrous, enlarged, jointed and geniculate at the nodes ; inter- 
nodes terete. Leaves distichous, chartaceous; obovate or obovate-lan- 
ceolate, cuspidate-acuminate at apex, cuneate at base, entire; glabrous 
on both surfaces ; 15—25 cm. long, 6—12 cm. broad ; 5-ribbed from the 
base, the lower pair slender, short, close to the margin, the upper 
at first along the midrib and then straight towards the margin ending 
about half way up, the midrib stout, conspicuous ; main nerves from 
the midrib like the ribs but more widely curved to and along the 
margin, 8 to 9 pairs, joined by prominent transverse nervules and these 
again by reticulations ; petiole stout, 5—10 mm. long. Cymes simple 
or branched, spicate, often drooping, from near the base of the stems, 
5—7 cm. long, minutely puberulous ; bracts conspicuous, leafy, lan- 
ceolate; rhachis flexuose; buds depressed, triangular. Perianth pale 
yellow with centre and margin streaked with claret-colour ; urceolate 
below for about 1 cm. in height, then erecto-patent and divided into 3 
broad cordate acute lobes about 15 mm. long and 25 mm. broad, each 
7-nerved and reticulate, glabrous. Stamens in two series, the outer 
ring of about 16, the inner of about 10; filaments slender, 4—5 mm. 
long; anthers linear, curved, 4 mm. long. Ovary elongate, slender, 
puberulous ; column of styles thick, glabrous, spreading in 6 slender 
stigmatic rays, 3—4 mm. long. Capsule slender, 5—10 cm. long, toru- 
lose, keeled, constricted between the seeds when dry. Seeds trigo- 
nous, 3—4 mm. long, acute at both ends, tubercled. Duchart. in DC. 
Prodr. XV. i. 428; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 74. Lobbia dependens, 
Planch. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. VI. 144, t. 3; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
I. i. 1068. Piper arborescens, Roxb. ex Wall. Cat. 6648 B. 
Prnane : at Waterfall, etc., Curtis 1170!, 1507!; at 250—300 
m. in dense jungle, King’s Collector 1661!. Prax: at Tapa, Wray 
1318!, 3151!; at Lumut Dinding, Ridley 10346!. StNGAPoRE : 
Wallich 6648 B.; Lobb 289! 
