358 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
mm. long, reflexed in flower from about the middle, margins of 
slightly enlarged base ciliate. Stamens inserted a little below the 
middle of the petal, which is rugose below them; filaments broad, 
4 mm. long; anthers about 3—4 mm. long, curved when mature : 
cells parallel, introrse, transversely septately pitted in a double row 
of cells, inner valves shorter than outer. Ovary ovoid ; style linear, 
angled, rugose, slightly geniculate a little below the middle; stigma 
small, truncate. Fruit globose, 6—S mm. in diam., smooth, 
crowned by the persistent rather long cylindric calyx-limb and 
enveloped at base by the persistent bract which forms a flat- 
tened cup; seed obovoid, surrounded except at the base by the sticky 
gum, embryo linear. Cyathiscus productus, van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. 
Bot. Fr. XLI. 539. ‘ 
Perak: Scortechini 391!, 581!; camp on Ulu Badang Padang, 
1500 m. alt., Wray 1531!, 2949!; near Larut at 1000—1200 m. alt., 
King’ s Collector 3240!. 
7. LopantHus Logsit, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 204 (1886). A 
parasitic shrub; branchlets terete with pale greyish-brown obscurely 
puberulous scaly bark, innovations ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves 
opposite,’ thickly coriaceous, glabrous; ovate-lanceolate, acuminate 
at apex, rounded oracute at base; when fresh dark green above, 
brownish-green beneath, both surfaces nearly black when dry and 
minutely impressed-punctate through contraction of the tissues ; 5—15 
em. long, 2—6 cm. broad; midrib thick, main nerves about 4—6 
pairs rarely at all visible; petiole none or up to 7 mm. long, thick. 
Flowers pale yellow, minute, sessile, clustered on a thickened cushion- 
like peduncle, 6 —20 in each cluster, the clusters in opposite pairs in 
the axils of the leaves or in whorls at intervals along the internodes ; 
bract scale-like. Calyx tubular, rusty-pubescent, 2 mm. long, the 
limb very faintly toothed. Petals 4, free, linear-oblong, thick, pu- 
berulous, 4mm. long. Stamens minute, inserted above the middle of 
the petals; anthers 1 mm. long, filaments as long. Ovary globose ; 
style very short; stigma cylindric, papillose, 3 mm. long, obtuse and 
obscurely 4-lobed at apex. Fruit brown, ellipsoid, 4—5 mm. long, 
puberulous, tipped with the remains of the calyx-limb. King in 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng: LVI. ii.90. Baratranthus Lobbit, Kingit, Scorte- 
chinit, bicolor, van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XLI. 537. 
KepauH: on Kedah peak, Ridley 5486!. Pmnanea: Lobb 338!; 
Maingay K.D. 695/2!; at 600—750 m. alt., King’s Collector 1318!, 
1695!; on Government Hill, Curtis 85!; 389!; Balik Pulau Road, 
