1904.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 59 



crowquill, pale, terete; spines few, slender, curved, shorter than the 

 petioles, supra-axillary. Leaves membranous, elliptic-ovate, shortly and 

 somewhat obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces pale 

 olivaceous-brown when dry, dull ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, spreading, 

 somewhat prominent on the lower surface but evanescing at the tips, 

 almost obsolete on the upper ; length 4 or 5 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 2'25 in. ; 

 petioles '15 to '25 in.; stipules small, broadly triangular. Flowers 

 about 1 in. long, solitary or in pairs on a short minutely bracteo- 

 late axillary branch. Calyx '2 in. long, cupular-campanulate, the 

 mouth .with 5 short broad acute teeth. Corolla with a wide cylindric 

 tube '5 in. long, having a ring of hairs inside near the base, otherwise 

 glabrous ; the limb with 5 lanceolate erect or spreading lobes half as 

 long as the tube. Anthers exserted, narrowly oblong, inserted by short 

 filaments in the glabrous throat. Ovary 2-celled ; style exserted ; 

 stigma mitriform, oblong, 2-partite. Fruit nearly 1 in. long, pulpy, 

 smooth, crowned by the large wide calyx-tube. Plectronia faucifiora, 

 K. & G. MS. 



Perak : Scortechinij 62. 



At once distingaishable by its large flowers, solitary or in pairs. 

 2. Canthidm PARViFOLiUM, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 15 : Fl. Br. Ind. I. 

 534. A rambling spiny shrub often subscandent or scandent ; young 

 branches thicker than a crow-quill, angled, at first densely rusty ad- 

 dreesed-pilose, ultimately often sub-glabrous ; spines supra-axillary, 05 

 to '2 in. in length, straight or curved, pubescent at the base, the 

 tips glabrous and shining. Leaves small, subcoriaceous, greenish when 

 dry, ovate or elliptic, acute, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous ; 

 the lower often sparsely hairy; the three pairs of slightly curved 

 ascending main-nerves and the midrib pubescent usually on both sur- 

 faces; length '75 to 1*5 in.; breadth "5 to '75 in. : petioles '05 to '15 in.; 

 stipules broad and short with an acute abrupt point. Flowers. '2 in. 

 long, in small axillary clusters, on short pedicels. Calyx cupular-trun- 

 cate, entire, or minutely 4- to 5- toothed. Corolla several times longer 

 than the calyx : the tube widely tubular in bud and constricted below the 

 limb, when expanded the tube globular, glabrous outside, but with a 

 ring of dense deflexed white hairs inside ; the limb with 4 or 5 lan- 

 ceolate deflexed lobes. Anthers partly exserted, ovate, on short fila- 

 ments. Stigma mitriform, sulcate. Fruit when ripe the size of a small 

 cherry or black currant, glabrous. DC. Prod. IV, 474. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. Ill, 135. C. scandens, Blume Bijdr. 966 ; DC. Prod. IV, 475. 

 G. horridum, Blume Bijdr. 966; DC. Prod. IV, 474; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 11,255: Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. Ill, 135. Plectronia parvifolia and P. 

 horrida^ Kurz. For. Fl. Burm. II, 36. Gardenia rigida, Wall. Cat. 8257 

 in part. C. zizyphinumt Wall. Cat. 8288 A. C. Bubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8288 



