56 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, [No. 1, 



subacute appendage. Fruit unknown. D. intermedia, Scort. MSS. (not 

 of Blurne), in Herb. prop. 



Perak; Scortechini 23, 34. Penang ; Curtis 1303. 



12. Anplectrum, A. Gray. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves subcoriaceous, or rarely coriaceous, opposite, 

 short-petioled, entire, oblong, narrowed upwards, 3-5-nerved from the 

 base. Flowers white, in terminal panicles sometimes leafy at the base. 

 Calyx-tube funnel-shaped or ovoid, limb obscurely 4-lobed or truncate. 

 Petals 4. Stamens 4 perfect, rarely 8, anthers attenuated upwards, 

 opening by one pore, connective at base shortly appendaged or snbnude, 

 never with two long bristles in front, rarely with a long appendage and 

 two small erect bristles ; imperfect stamens 4, 2, or 0. Ovary 4-celled, 

 free at the apex, with 4 vertical ridges ; style simple ; ovules many, 

 placentas axile. Berry ovoid or globose, crowned with the calyx-limb. 

 Seeds very many, small, falcate, obovoid ; raphe long, lateral. Distrib. 

 Species about 18, in Malaya and the Philippines. 



Stamens 4 perfect : — 



Nodes of the young branches and of the lower 



part of the panicle with conspicuous, stellately 



lepidote, bristly annnli ... ... ... 1. A. lepidoto-setosum. 



Nodes of the young branches and of the panicle 



with a small smooth annulus or faint transverse 



ridge : — ■ 



Calyx-tube funnel-shaped ; stamens 4, all 



perfect; young branches stellate-hairy ... 2. A. glaucum. 



Calyx-tube ovoid to globular-ovoid ; stamens 



8, the anthers of 4 of them narrow and 



imperfect; young branches glabrous or 



nearly so ... ... ... 3. A, pallens, 



Nodes not annulate ; stamens 8, the anthers of 4 



of them narrow and imperfect ; young branches 



and panicles densely stellate-scaly ... ... 4. A* divaricatum, 



Stamens 8 perfect ... ... ... 5. A. anomalum, 



. ]. An plectrum lepidoto-setosum, King, n. sp. Young branches 

 slender, conspicuously annulate at the nodes, sparsely clothed with 

 coarse, spreading hairs with thickened points, the very youngest also 

 with deciduous, stellate hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 5-nerved ; 

 the base rounded and minutely cordate, the apex shortly caudate-acu- 

 minate ; both surfaces glabrous except for a few coarse hairs near tho 

 petiole ; the lower shining and pale when dry ; length 45 to 6 in. ; 

 breadth l'l to 1-8 in.; petiole very short, attached to the cup-shaped, 

 densely rufous stellate-tornentose node aud like it with scattered 



