1903.] King & Gamble— Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 191 



minate, shining when dry, the main^nerves very 



prominent ... ... ... ... 6. U. glabrum. 



Umbels 4- to 6-flowered ; leaves shortly acumin- 



ate, dull when dry ; nerves not prominent ... 5. U. streptopodium. 



Flowers 4-merous : — 



Umbels compound, trichotomous ; flowers pedi- 

 celled, with hirsute permanent bracteoles ; corolla 

 puberulous outside, hirsute inside ... ... 7. U. trifurcum. 



Cymes 8- to 10-flowered ; flowers "sessile puberu- 

 lous... ... ... ... ... 8. U, potatorum. 



1. Urophyllum villosdm, Jack & Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey & Wall. II. 185. A shrub to 10 feet high; young branches 

 nearly as thick as a goose-quill, covered with adpressed yellowish hair. 

 Leaves coriaceous, pale, yellowish-green when dry, oblong-elliptic, 

 caudate-acuminate, the base slightly narrowed or rounded; upper sur- 

 face glabrous; the lower boldly reticulate and bearing many pale sub- 

 adpressed hairs especially on the nerves and veins ; midrib prominent, 

 tomentose; main-nerves 10 or 11 pairs, much curved, ascending, bold on 

 the lower surface ; length 7 to 10 in. ; breadth 2*75 to 325 in. ; petiole 

 •3 in., tomentose. Stipules narrowly oblong-lanceolate, blunt, tomentose 

 below, *8 in. long. Cymes *4 to *8 in. long, on pedicels of the same 

 length, about *8 „in. in diam., condensed ; bracts numerous, narrowly 

 oblong, blunt, pilose, persistent. Flowers densely crowded, their pedicels 

 short, pubescent. Calyx campanulate, *25 in. long, with 5 triangular 

 blunt spreading lobes, pubescent on both surfaces. Corolla longer than 

 the calyx, cylindric-campanulate, thick, deeply divided into 5 oblong 

 concave lobes, the throat densely pilose; stamens linear, glabrous. 

 Fruit sub-globular, truncate at the apex and crowned by the short 

 triangular calyx-teeth, sparsely villous, 3 in. in diam. when dry. Wall. 

 Cat. 8314; DC. Prod. IV. 441 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 99. 



Penang: WalUch; King; Maingay (K.D.) 884; Curtis 178, 7201. 

 Perak: Wray 2634; Scortechini 1983; King's Collector 526, 2563 ; 

 Ridley 9711. Singapore : Lobb 322. 



2. Urophyllum macrophyllum, Korth. Young branches slender, 

 obtusely 4-angled, at first densely and minutely pubescent, sometimes 

 becoming ultimately almost glabrous. Leaves membranous, elliptic- 

 oblong, sometimes obovate-elliptic, shortly and rather abruptly acumin- 

 ate, the base cuneate; upper surface olivaceous-green when dry, glab- 

 rous except the depressed-pubescent midrib ; the lower pale-olivaceous, 

 the midrib and 9 to 11 pairs of curved ascending main-nerves prom: 

 nent and pale pubescent, the interspaces and rather distinct transverse 

 veins also pubescent ; length 6 to 10 in. ; breadth 175 to 3 in. ; petiole 

 *4 to *6 in. ; stipules lanceolate, adpressed-pubescent, *4 to ' 6 in. long 



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