274 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
oblong, nearly as long as the radicle. Hook.f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 233; 
Merr. in Philipp. Journ. Sc. I. Suppl. 50. 
PrenaneG: Lobb 334!; Government Hill, Maingay K.D. 1315!; 
Curtis 1393, etc.!; Ridley!. Panane: at Praman and Katapang, 
Ridley 1239!. Mauacca: Griffith; Mainyay K.D. 1313!. Stne@a- 
PORE: at Changi, Ridley 4697!, 4728!, 5909!; Kunstler (King’s Col- 
lector) 1181!.—Disrrit. Borneo (Haviland 84!), Philippine Islands. 
6. HENSLOWIA BUXIFOLIA, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 224 
(1850). A slender climbing parasitic shrub reaching 5--10 m. in 
length, sometimes trailing on the ground; the branches terete, wiry, 
dark brown. Leaves yellowish-green, subcoriaceous; elliptic or obo- 
vate, obtuse or obtusely acute at apex, narrowed at base, young ones 
often spathulate; glabrous on both surfaces and dull, the upper 
sometimes shining; 1—6 cm. long, 0°5—2 cm. broad: ribs 3, or 5 or 
7 by the subdivision of the outer pair, the inner 3 only reaching to 
and joining at the apex; nerves rarely 1—2; reticulation obscure ; 
petiole broad, 3—6 mm. long, bordered by the decurrent margins of 
the blade. Flowers minute, sessile, or very minutely pedicelled on 
the top of a peduncle scarcely 5 mm. long; 3 very scarce, without 
bracts, ¢ bracteate at base; all from very short tubercles on the 
branchlets. Perianth-tube very short in 3, the lobes triangular, 
under 1 mm. long, hooked at the apex; in ¢ surrounding the ovary, 
the lobes persistent in fruit. Diskin 3 flat, 5-lobed; in ¢ concave 
with a minute 5-lobed stigma. Drwpe dark red or purplish-black, 
globose, rugose, 3 mm. in diam.; endocarp 4—6-furrowed. A. DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 631; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 234. Dendrotrophe buxifolia, 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 781. Osyris rotundaia, Griff. Notul. N. 742 
and Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 627, f. 2. 
KepaH: at Kedah Peak, Ridley!. Prnana: at Polo Inajah, 
Curtis 477!. Prax: at Larut, under 100 m. alt., King’s Collector 
4179!. Trinacanu: at Bundi, Ridley!. Panane: at Kluang Ter- 
bang, Barnes 10908!; at Praman Pekan, Ridley 3!, 89!. Manacca: 
in littoral woods, Tanjong Cling, Griffith K.D. 4391!; Cuming 2366; 
at Gunong Mering, Ridley 3159!. Jonorz: at Tanah Runto, Good- 
enough 3381!; top of Bukit Pengaram, Ridley 11032!. SINGAPORE: at 
Kranji, Bajan, etc., Ridley!.—Disrris. Bangka (7'eysmann) Borneo. 
7. HENSLOWIA MONTICOLA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 201 (1912). A 
parasitic shrub; branchlets smooth, angular, striate, nearly black. 
