258 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
prominent as is the reticulation; petiole slender, short, 2—5 mm. 
long. Flowers white, in heads of 5—9, sessile on a silky villous 
receptacle, on slender peduncles 2—7 cm. long; in bud protected by 
an involucre of 2 concave suborbicular reddish imbricating bracts 
pubescent to nearly glabrous without, minutely pubescent within. 
Perianth tubular, densely white-silky-villous without, glabrous within, 
7—9 mm. long; lobes ovate, acute or obtuse, 2—3 mm. long, alter- 
nately short and long. _ Stamens 8, the upper 4 opposite the perianth- 
lobes, the lower 4 alternate with them; anthers oblong, yellow, 1 
mm. long; filaments very short. Ovary glabrous below, densely 
silky-villous above; hypogynous disk membranous, brown, tubular, 
dentate, 1—1°5 mm. long; style slender; stigma large, capitate. 
Fruit an ovoid glabrous drupe, about 5mm. long. Koord. Exkurs. 
Fl. Jav. I. 657. D. pendula, Smith Plant. Ic. ined. IT. t. 34 (1790) ; 
Wickst. Monog. Daphn. 12; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XIV. 540; Kurz 
For. Fi. Il. 333; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 194; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
I. 1. 877. D. montana, Meissn. in Regensb. Denkschr. III. 284. 
Scopolia composita, Linon. fil Supp!. 409 (1781). Hriosolena montana, 
Bl. Bijdr. 651; Hassk. Cat. Bogor. 92. 
PERAK: at Bujong Malacca, Ridley 9682!, at Ulu Batang 
Padang, Ridley 13707!; Birch’s Hill, Wray 510!; Scortechini 531! ; 
in dense jungle on mountain tops, Larut, etc., at 1000—1409 m. alt., 
King’s Collector 3812!, 6940!. SeLancor: at Bukit Kutu, 900 m. 
alt., Ridley 7614!.—Distris. Burma, Java (Kurz!, Hasskarl!, Lobb 
247!, deVriese!, Forbes 1103!), Sumatra (Teysmann!; Beccari 2!; 
Forbes 1856!, 2468!). 
2. WixstRa@mi1A, Endl. 
Shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate. Flowers 
hermaphrodite, in terminal or axillary spikes or racemes, ebracteate. 
Perianth-tube slender, elongate: lobes 4, spreading, the throat naked. 
Stamens 8, in two series, the upper opposite the perianth-lobes near 
the mouth, the lower alternate with them at mid-tube; filaments 
short; anthers oblong. Hypogynous disk of |—4 membranous scales, 
linear, free or joined below. Ovary sessile or subsessile, 1-celled; 
style very short; stigma large, capitate or globose. Fruit a fleshy 
or dry drupe, more or less included in the persistent base of the 
perianth; pericarp fleshy or membranous. Seed conform to the 
pericarp; testa crustaceous; inner testa, if present, membranous; 
albumen 0 or very scanty; cotyledons fleshy, plano-convex.—Dis- 
