Iodes.\ XXXIX. OLACiNE^. ^ (Maxwell T. Masters.) ' 597 



atove, over the whole surface beneath. Cymes opposite the leave?, pedicels short, 

 slender. Flowers minute, tomentose.— Only known frjm Kurz's desonptioft. 



5. X. oblong-a, Planch, in herb. Kew. ; leaves oblanceolate, base tapering 

 qiiDcoruaLe. * 



Penang? WaUicK. 



Shrubby, scandent? ^rciBc^es cylindric, grey, setose, ultimately glabrescent, with 

 prominent scars. Leaves b'hj l^m., membranous, glabrous above, setose along the 

 midnb above, and over the whole lower surface ; petiole \ in. Inflorescence inter- 

 axillary, peduncles 1 in., oymose, dichotomously branched. Flowers very minute. 

 Omry oblong, 1-celled ; stigma sessile, thick, discoid, 5-lobed; ovules 2, pendulous.— 

 I have not seen perfect flowers, but the structure of the ovary is that of lodes. 



■GEmjS OF DOUBTFUL AFFINTTY. 



23. CARDZOFTEHXS, Wall. 



A climbing herb with milky juice. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, simple 

 or lobed, cordate, palminerved. Flfjwers ebracteate, in axillary racemose or 

 panicled cymes, bisexual, dichlamydeous. Ca/yx 4-5-parted ; lobes imbricate, 

 persistent, but not, or only slightly accrescent. Corolla deciduous, between 

 rotate and funnel-shaped, 4-5-lobed. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the base of 

 the tube of the corolla, alternate with its lobes, filaments, short glabrous ; 

 anthers 2-ceUed, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally ; pollen-grains 4-angular. 

 Ovary free, surrounded at the base by a thick fleshy annular disk, 

 oblong^compressed, 1-celled ; ovules 1 (rarely 2) pendulous, naked, micro-, 

 pyle ultimately superior; style 2-branched, one branch deciduous, curved,, 

 capitate at the apex, the other accrescent, ultimately deciduous, divided at 

 the apex into 2 unequal, ovate, rather obtuse divisions. Fruit ovate-orbicu- 

 lar, emarginate or obcordate, compressed, very broadly winged, 1-celled, 

 indehiscent. Seed solitary, linear, furrowed ; embryo minute, in hard fleshy 

 albumen. — The following is the only species. 



1. C. lobata, R. Br. in Wall. Gat. 8033 A, and in Benn. PI. Jav. Bar. 

 246, t. 49. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 799., C. moluccana, Blume Rumph. 

 iv. 207, t. 177, f. 2, partly. C. javanica Blume Rumph. iii. 206, iv. t. 177. 

 C. Kumphii, Baill. in Adansonia x. 280, and in DC. Prodr. xvii. 26. Eerip- 

 terygium quinquelobum, Uassk. Cat. PI. Hort. Bogor. 351. 



Westees Bensal, in Silhet and Cachar. Rakgooh, Ava, and Tenasseeim. — 

 DiSTRiB. Yunan, Indian Archipelago, Siam, New Guinea. 



Stem terete, stiiate. Leaves 3-5 in. by 3-4J in., glabrous, membranous, polymor- 

 phous, usually more or less angular and slightly lobed, base 7-9 nerved, cordate, lobes 

 acute or acuminate, widely divergent ; petiole 3-5 in. Pedundes 2^-4 in., solitary, 

 axillary, dichotomous ; pedicels puberulous, erect, ultimately spreading or recurved. 

 Flowers rather crowded, secund, ebracteate. ' Calyx puberulous. Corolla slightly ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, whitish, deciduous. Fruit I-I4 in. by IJ in.— The plant varies 

 much in the consistence and form of the leaves, occasionally even on the same specimen, 

 hence, by some writers, several species have been proposed. Baillon, however, ranks 

 them all as varieties. The following occur wijhin the limits of this Flora. 

 , Vak. 1. moluccana, leaves rather thick subcordate or hastato-subcordate not lobed, 

 nerves snbpedate more or less conspicuous sometimes reddish, inflorescence cymose- 

 raoemose. 0.. moluccana, Blume Bumph. iii. 207, t. 177, f. 2 ; Eoyle 111. 13C ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 799. C. Eumphii, var. o integrifolia, Baill. in DO. Prodt. 

 xvii. 26; Rumph. Amh. v. 482, t. 180. Uiosoorea sativa, L. Amcen. Acad. iv. 133. 



Vak. 2. svbhamata, Baill. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 26 ; leaves cordate pedately 7-nerved 



