Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 261 
3. Linostoma, Wall. 
Erect or climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, penni- 
nerved. Jlowers hermaphrodite, in small panicled sometimes um- 
belliform cymes; bracts 2, on the peduncle, subopposite, leafy, at 
length enlarged and membranous. Perianth-tube cylindric, the base 
at length turgid; lobes 5, spreading; scales 10, inserted on the 
mouth of the tube above the stamens, free or connate in pairs. 
Stamens 10, inserted at the mouth of the tube, sometimes alternately 
long and short; filaments slender, exserted, broadening above into 
the connective; anthers ovoid or oblong, obtuse, dehiscing longi- 
tudinally, the cells enclosing the broadened connective. Hypogynous 
disk 0, or of a short lobed ring surrounding the base of the ovary- 
stalk. Ovary stipitate, long-hirsute, ovoid or oblong; style filiform ; 
stigma capitate, penicillate; ovule 1. Frutti ovoid or globose 
included in or supported on the more or less cleft inflated base of the 
perianth-tube; pericarp red, crustaceous. Seed conform to the peri- 
carp; testa membranous; albumen 0; cotyledons large, hemispheric, 
fleshy.—Distris. Species 6, 3 in India and Malaya, 3in 8S. America. 
LINOSTOMA PAUCIFLORUM, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist.iv. 234 
in note (1844). An erect or scandent shrub ; branchlets long, slender, 
black when dry. Leaves opposite, chartaceous, glabrous; elliptic or 
obovate, obtuse or retuse and mucronate at apex, rounded or nearly 
acute at base; lower surface almost glabrous; margin entire, thick- 
ened from being closely reflexed; 2>5—5 cm. long, 1:5—2°5 cm. 
broad; main nerves very numerous, often nearly 50 pairs, at from 
‘70°—90° with the midrib, parallel, ending in the margin; secondary 
nerves also numerous; reticulation obscure: petiole slender, up to 3 
mm.long. Cymesterminal or axillary, few- (2—4-) flowered supported 
by pairs of leafy, white, ovate or ovate-oblong, floral leaves, thinner 
than and with fewer nerves than the regular leaves, reaching 4 cm. 
long by 2 cm. broad ; peduncles filiform, glabrous; pedicels slender ; 
flowers greenish-white. Perianth-tube slender, glabrous on both 
surfaces, somewhat constricted at mouth, 10-nerved, 1—2 cm. long; 
lobes 5 imbricate, 2 outer narrower than 3 inner, linear-oblong, 8— 
10 mm. long; scales clavate, crenulately rugose, about 5 mm. long. 
Stamens nearly as long as the corolla-lobes, the connective broadened 
and decurrent into the filament. Disk annular, lobed. Fruzt en- 
closed in the slightly cleft, urceolate, enlarged, 10-ridged perianth- 
tube nearly 1:5 cm. long, ;pericarp glabrous, crustaceous. Seed 
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