1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 191 



specimens are said by Mr. Bentham to be from the Malay Archipelago, by Mr. Baker 

 to be from the Peninsula ; we know, however, from Dr. Wallich's correspondence 

 th.it the mnjority of Fiulayson's specimens, more particularly those without any 

 definite locality, came from Siam. 



J9. Baxjhinia Wrayi Prain. A shrubby creeper 15-30 feet long, 

 with slender glabrous branches and circinate glabrous tendrils. Leaves 

 flexible, truncate Very rarely cordate at the base, tapering from about 

 the middle to an acute entire, very rarely an obtuse emarginate apex, 

 rather longer than broad, 2-3 in. long, 1*25— J*75 in. across, medium- 

 green, glabrous above, glaucescent glabrous or faintly puberulous only 

 on the nerves beneath ; very uniformly 5-nerved ; petiole slender, glab- 

 rous, *5-*6 in. long. Flowers in dense close-fld. terminal and axillary 

 racemes, 2*5-4 in. long, the lower flowers deciduous except the few that 

 become fertilised, the remaining terminal portion corymbose 2*5 in. long 

 and broad; pedicels very slender, thickening in fruit, 1*35 in. long, 

 sparsely rusty as is the slightly nodose main-rachis, bracts subulate 

 *2 in. long, very deciduous; bud clove-shaped, only '2 in. long, the 

 spherical minutely apiculate upper part in diameter equalling the length 

 of the slender cylindric base. Calyx glabrous, tube *15 in. long, limb 

 splitting into 5 spathulate subequal lobes *15 in. long. Petals pale 

 greenish-yellow, or white at length pinkish, broadly oblanceolate, long- 

 clawed, 6 in. long, 2 in. across, margins slightly wavy, sparsely pubes- 

 cent externally. Stamens 3 fertile, anthers shortly oblong. Ovary small, 

 3-4 ovuled, distinctly stalked, quite glabrous throughout, style "15 in. 

 long, stigma small peltate. Pod obovate to oblong-obtuse, tapering to 

 base, thin, woody, stipe '2 in. long, 2-3 in. long, 1 in. across, quite glab- 

 rous. Seeds 1-2, rarely 3, very much compressed, broadly ovate, *5 in. 

 long, *4 in. across, testa dark-brown, dull. 



Perak; Kunstler 2238! 2466! 4049! 5243! Scortechini 1652! 

 Wray 1934! 2782! Selangor ; Kunstler 8758 ! 



Very distinct frcm any other Peninsular species, and by its inflorescence (in 

 which it most resembles B. integrifolia among the Phaneras) connecting Phanera with 

 Lasiobema, its small flowers approaching those of the latter section. It is extremely 

 nearly allied to a Bornean species (represented by Mottley n. 376 and Haviland n. 

 95) which differs in having deeply cordate leaves, in having quite glabrous pedicels, 

 and in having the petals, though similarly crenulate, larger and almost glabrous. 

 It is j-ust possible that the Borneo plant may be the lost B. cordifolia Roxb. 



20. Bauhinta integrifolia Roxb. Hort, Beng. 90. A large climber 

 over 100 feet long, branehes slender rusty-pubernlous, tendrils circinate 

 rusty. Leaves usually deeply cordate, always about as long as broad, 

 mostly 4-6 in. across and with a deltoid apical sinus '4- # 6 in. deep; 

 the leaves in the region of inflorescences usually small 1*25 in. long, 1 

 in. across, not infrequently entire ; the leaves on young root-shoots 



