1904.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 105 



testa membranous, albumen horny. Embryo small, basal, the cotyledons 

 leafy. — Distrib. Species about 70, all tropical. 



Stipules coriaceous, their bases coriaceous and leaving bold scars on the stem : — 



Capitala sessile, 1 to 3 in. across ; leaves 3 to 5 in. broad ; 



stipules broadly ovate, 8 in. long ... ... 1. C. Qriffi^thii. 



Oapitnla pedunculate, '75 to 1 in. across; leaves '5 to 3'5 



in. broad ; stipules coriaceous, broadly ovate with dis- 

 coloured edges, *1 to '5 in. long ... ... 2. C. cuneata. 



Stipules not coriaceous, leaving no scars on the stem ... 3. 0. JRidleyi. 



1. Oephaelis G-riffithii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 178. Young 

 branches thicker than a swan-quill, lenticellate. Leaves membranous, 

 oblong-oblanceolate, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, gradually 

 narrowed from above the middle into the long slightly winged petiole, 

 both surfaces glabrous, brown when dry, the lower the paler ; main- 

 nerves 12 to 20 pairs, curving upwards, prominent like the midrib on the 

 lower surface, rather faint on the upper surface when dry ; length 10 

 to 16 in. ; breadth 3 to 5 in. ; petioles 2*5 to 3 in. Stipules coriaceous, 

 sub-orbicular, their apices sub-acute, '8 in. long, the margins entire, 

 thin, and discoloured. Gapittihim sub-globular, from 1 to 2 in. in 

 diam., sessile or shortly stalked, bearing numerous orbicular bratcs 

 like the stipules, but smaller. Flowers '75 in. long, on short pedicels. 

 Calyx '15 in. long, the tube n arrow- cylindric ; the mouth abruptly 

 campanulate, entire, truncate. Corolla funnel-shaped, '65 in. long, 

 mouth with 5 ovate-acute reflexed lobes. Fruit '35 in. long, compressed, 

 slightly grooved along the edges, with a broad dorsal rib on each side, 

 crowned by the calyx- limb. Seed thin. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3032; Maingay (K.D.) 928. Negri Sem- 

 bilan: Uidley 10109. Perak: King's Collector 746, 2534, 6251, 6399, 

 10782; Wray 1197, 1338, 3027; Ridley 9755; ScortecUni.—DiBiB.iB. 

 Sumatra: Forbes, 2511. 



Differs from G. cuneata in the longer and sessile capitulum and somewhat 

 larger leaves and stipules. 



2. Oephaelis cuneata, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 248. A 

 shrub ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, glabrous, the nodes 

 sometimes close together and always marked by the pale coriaceous 

 bases of the deciduous stipules. Leaves thickly membranous, oblanceo- 

 late or elliptic-oblanceolate, gradually narrowed from above the middle 

 into the slightly winged petiole ; both surfaces glabrous, olivaceous 

 when dry, the lower the paler; main-nerves 10 to 18 pairs, curved 

 spreading and ascending, indistinct on the upper surface when dry but 

 distinct on the lower, the midrib broad ; length from 5 to 10 in.; breadth 

 1 to 2*5 in.; petioles narrowly winged, 5 to TS in. long. Stipules 



