1890.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. Ii5 



by a few ovate, pointed scarious bracts : petals 5, equal to the sepals, 

 yellow : stamens 8 to 12 : style 3-8-clet't : seeds punctate : Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. II, 463; W. & A. Prodi-. 356. P. hevis, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6811. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 246. P. stiff ruticosa, Thw. Enum. 24 (not of 

 Wight). 



In the Andamans, and probably in all the Provinces, in waste places. 

 Distrib. All warm climates. 



2. PoRTULACA QUADPviFiDA, Linn. An annual with diffuse filiform 

 stems, rooting at the nodes ; nodal appendages copious, pilose. Leaves 

 flat, opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, almost sessile ; length "2 

 to "35 in. Floivers solitary, terminal ; calyx tube partly immersed in 

 the extremity of the axis, surrounded by long silky hairs and by about 

 4 bracteoles : petals 4i, yellow ; stamens 8 to 12 ; style filiform, deeply 

 4-fid. Seeds minutely tuberculate. DC. Prod. Ill, 354. Wight 111. ii, t. 

 109. Hook, fil Fl. Br. Ind. I, 247. Oliver Fl. Trop. Africa, I, 149. P. 

 meridiana, L. Roxb., Fl. Ind. II, 463. JP. geniculata, Royle 111. 221. 

 P. anceps, Rich. Fl. Abyssin., I, 301. 



Penang, in the Fort ; Curtis. Distrib. Throughout the Tropics of 

 Asia, S. Africa. 



Order XIII. HYPERICINE^. 

 Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, often punctate with 

 pellucid glands or dark glandular dots, entire or glandular-toothed ; 

 stipules 0. Floivers solitary or cymose, terminal, rarely axillary. Sepals 

 and petals each 5, rarely 4 ; petals contorted in bud. Stamens inde- 

 finite, or rarely definite, 3- or 5-adelphous, rarely free or all connate ; 

 anthers versatile. Ovary 3- 5-carpellary, 1- or 3-5-celled; styles as many, 

 filiform, free or united ; ovules few or numerous, on parietal or axile 

 placentas, anatropous, raphe lateral or superior. Fruit capsular or bac- 

 tate. Seeds exalbuminous, sometimes winged ; embryo straight or 

 curved. Distrib. Temp, countries and mountains of warm regions ; 

 genera 8, species about 210. 



1. Cratoxtlon, Blume. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves entire, usually papery. Inflorescence axil- 

 lary or terminal, cymose. Sepals and petals each 5, Stamens 3- or 5- 

 adelphous, with fleshy hypogynous glands alternating with the bundles. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; styles distinct; ovules 4-8 in each cell. Capsule 3- 

 valved, seeds winged. Distrib. Trojoical Asia; species about 12. 



Sect. I. Ancistrolobds, Spach. Petals sub-persistent, inappendi- 

 culate. Stamens 3-delphous ; glands more or less cucullate. 



1. Cratoxtlon polyanthum, Korth. Verhand. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 175, 

 t. 36. A large shrub, or tree 30 to 40 feet high, all parts glabrous ; 



