1892.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. 101 



5. Oxymitba glauca, H. f. and Th. Fl. Incl. 146 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. I, 71. A slender woody climber : young branches slightly tomen- 

 tose, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic, ellip- 

 tic-lanceolate to lanceolate, obtuse, acute or shortly acuminate ; the 

 base rounded, sometimes slightly narrowed ; upper surface glabrous, the 

 midrib and sometimes the nerves pubescent ; the lower very pale, glauc- 

 ous, glabrous or sparsely pubeiailous, the midrib pubescent ; main nerves 

 8 to 12 spairs, spreading, prominent beneath : length 4 to 6 in., breadth 

 1*5 to 2 in. ; petiole "2 in., pubescent. Floioers solitary, extra-axillary, 

 narrow and elongate ; pedicels slender, *5 in. long, with a median subulate 

 bract, longer in fruit. Sepals connate at the base, broadly ovate, much 

 acuminate, adpressed-pubescent, "25 in., long. Fetals very unequal : the 

 outer thickly coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, slightly expanded 

 and sub-concave at the base, outside minutely pubescent; inside glab- 

 rous, the midrib prominent : inner petals with sub-orbicular bases 

 (cleft in the middle), and long acuminate points, glabrous, only about 

 one-fifth as long as the outer. Ovaries hairy ; ovule solitary. Carpels 

 many, ovoid, slightly apiculate, "4 in. long and "25 in. in diam., minutely 

 tomentose ; stalks slender, "75 in. long. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 50. 



Penang, Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 58. Perak ; com- 

 mon at low-elevations. Distrib. : Sumatra, Beccari, No. 626. 



19. Melodoeum, Dunal. 

 Climbing shrubs. Floioers terminal, axillary and leaf-opposed, fasci- 

 cled or panicled ; buds triquetrous. Sepals 3, small, valvate, connate 

 below. Petals 6, valvate, in 2 rows ; outer plano-convex or trigonous : 

 inner triquetrous above, hollowed below on the inner face. Stamens 

 many ; anther-cells dorsal, contiguous ; top of connective more or less 

 flattened, triangular, quadrate or orbicular. Pistils many, free ; style 

 oblong ; ovules 2 or more. Pipe carpels berried. — Distrib : — species 

 about 35. Tropical Asia and Africa ; Australia. 



Section I. Melodoeum proper. Outer petals oblong-ovate ; ovaries 

 hairy, ovules usually more than 4. Seeds smooth (unknown in M. litseae- 

 foliuni) . 



Flowers not more than '4 in. long (often '5 

 in. in M. fulgens), flower-buds broadly pyra- 

 midal. 



Flowers '2 to '25 in. long, in few-flower- 

 ed, lax, axillary racemes ; leaves be- 

 neath hoary-pubescent with a super- 

 ficial layer of flexuose hairs : ovules 4 1. M. UtseacfoUiim, 

 Flowers *4 to "5 in. long ; solitary, or in 



