32& Petr/eovitex. 



4. P. bambusetorum King et Gamble, Kew Bull., 

 113 (1908); iid. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 859. - 

 A creeping shrub, 10—17 M. long; branchlets, inflores- 

 cences and petioles fulvous-hairy, glabrescent; leaves 

 opposite, 1— 3-foliolate; leaflets chartaceous, ovate, base 

 rotundate-cuneate, apex acuminate, margins entire, glabrous 

 on both sides, pairs of nerves 8; 7—10 by 4—6 cM.; 

 petiolules 0.6—1.2 cM., petioles 2V2— 5 cM.; the terminal 

 leaflet larger; cymes in sessile or peduncled, axillary 

 panicles, reaching 10—12 cM. by 7V2 cM., glabrate or 

 puberulous; bracts leafy, lanceolate; calyx ia bud ±0.12 cM., 

 in fruit very enlarged, tube to 0.6—0.9 cM., lobes to 1 — 

 1.3cM., 3-nerved; coroZ/a smaU; 2-lipped,5-lobed, glabrous; 

 stamens 4, subequal with stout filaments; style short with 

 bifid stigma, ovary rounded; capsule 0.7 — 0.8 cM. long, 

 not ribbed. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula, Borneo! (Haviland and 

 Hose no. 1913 E; corolla white; Sarawak, Mt. Sugla). 



5. P. pubescens Warburg, Engl. Jahrb. XIII, 427, 

 (1891). — A climbing shrub; branchlets quadrangular, with 

 inflorescences and petioles pubescent; leaves opposite, 

 biternate, leaflets ovate, base obtuse, rotundate or sub- 

 cordate; apex gradually narrowing, with obtuse acumen, 

 margins usually coarsely and irregularly dentate, sometimes 

 subentire, with sparse hairs or subglabrous above, pubes- 

 cent beneath, especially on the nerves, glandular, the 

 terminal leaflets larger, reaching 6V2 by 3V2 cM.; petioles 

 3—5 cM., petiolules of 1st degree 1— 3V2 cM., petiolules 



'of 2nd degree 0.3—0.6 cM. in the lateral, and 0.6—1.2 

 cM. in the terminal leaflets; inflorescences axillary, pani- 

 culate, pyramidal, 20—30 cM. long, 6—8 cM. broad, bracts 

 subulate, flowers subsessile; calyx in fruit with narrow- 

 oblanceolate, 1 cM. long, 0.2 cM. broad, glabrous lobes, 

 tube pubescent. 



Distribution: Little Key-Islands. 



