1897.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 59 



lanceolate about as long as the narrowly campanulate tube. Gorolla 

 •25 in. long reddish, standard emarginate, wings overarching the slight- 

 ly shorter keel. Pod glabrous recurved linear J'5-2 in. long, '2 in. 

 broad, 8-12 seeded. Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. VIII, 265 ; Bak. in 

 Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 184. Glycine labialis Linn. fil. Suppl. 325 ; Roxb. 

 Flor. Ind. Ill, 318 ; W. & A. Prodr. 208 ; Wight, Ic. t. 168 ; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, 222. 0. parviflora DC. Prodr. II, 242; Wall. Cat, 5508 

 (excl. G., H.) G. debilis DC. Prodr. II, 242. 0. pollens Grah. in Wall. 

 Cat. 5518. 



Penang; Wallich 5518 ! Distrib. Throughout the tropics. 

 Var. mollis Baker (Teramnus mollis Benth), should be looked for in the Malay- 

 Peninsula, for though it has not yet been reported from our area it occurs in Burma 

 where it has been collected by Wallich and by Kurz, and again in Java where it appears 

 to be commoner than T. labialis proper. It is distinguished from T. labialis by the 

 presence of spreading hairs on the stem and by the pods being strigosely hirsute 

 with long spreading hairs. Its leaflets also are densely pubescent beneath and its 

 calyx-teeth are shorter than the tube. 



16. Dioclea H. B. K. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, stipellate. Flowers 

 blue or white, in elongated racemes with thickened nodes ; bracts and 

 bracteoles caducous. Calyx-tube campanulate, teeth shorter than tube, 

 two npper quite connate. Gorolla exserted ; petals about equal in length ; 

 keel incurved but not beaked. Stamens monadelphous ; the vexillary 

 stamen free below connate with the others in the middle shorter than the 

 rest and with a perfect anther ; anthers of keel stamens (in Malay 

 species) alternately perfect and abortive. Ovary subsessile hirsute, 

 few-ovuled, style incurved beardless, stigma capitate. Pod oblong 

 turgid 1-3-seeded, flattened along the upper suture. Species 17-18, one 

 Indo-Malayan, one extending to Africa and America, the rest tropical 

 American. 



Leaflets glabrescent beneath, larger ; flowers "75 in. long ; calyx 



teeth half as long as tube .., ... ... ... 1, D. refiexa. 



Leaflets densely velvety beneath; flowers 1 in. long; calyx teeth 



wider one-third the length of tube ... ... ... 2. D. javanica. 



1. Dioclea eeflexa Hook. f. Niger Flora 306. A strong woody 

 climber 20-30 feet long with rounded black early glabrescent branches. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate 9 in. long ; leaflets 3, dull green above paler beneath, 

 subcoriaceous when young sparsely hairy on both surfaces but early 

 becoming glabrous above and glabrous except for a few adpressed hairs 

 on the nerves beneath, ovate shortly acuminate with subtrnncate base 5 in. 

 long 3 in. across, petiole 4 in. long channelled above sparingly adpressed 

 hirsute; petiolules 25 in. rusty pubescent, stipels *2 in, long, subulate, 



