TO LOWER SI AM. 135 



ASCLEPIADE^E. 



Gongylosperma lanuginosum, n. sp. 



Dwarf shrub with stout contort woody stem, warted 

 with rough leaf-base scars. Leaves few, terminal, elliptic 

 coriaceous, sub-sessile, 5-10 inches long, 1^-3 inches wide, 

 above sparingly pubescent, beneath woolly, apex and 

 base blunt, petiole i inch long or less woolly, nerves 15- 

 18 pairs sub-horizontal, slender. Cymes axillary, 2-3 inches 

 long, woolly with few branches, terminating in small 

 cymes. Flowers i inch long, dull red, pedicels i inch. 

 Bracts very small, lanceolate. Calyx short, woolly with 

 5 very short ovate points. Corolla 5 ovate, blunt lobes 

 tube hardly any. Coronal scales none. Stamens few with 

 thick, filaments and short blunt anthers. Follicles 2, 

 thick oblong blunt, 1 inch long, i inch wide, densely wool- 

 ly, seed lanceolate, narrowed upwards, black, i inch long, 

 rugose areolate, subterete, plume little longer of few white 

 hairs. 



Lankawi near Dayong Bonting on bare cliffs (CC. 

 2663). 



Differs from G. Gurtisii in the short thick stem large 

 woolly leaves, pubescent calyx etc. The only flowers I have 

 seen are indifferently preserved and the staminal column 

 is very small and difficult to make out. 



The genus is endemic. 



G Gurtisii, King and Gamble. In the crevices of limestone 

 rocks. Pungah (Curtis 2951). Endemic. 



Finlaysonia obouata, Wall. Kasum (Curtis), common in tidal 

 rivers from Singapore to Burma. 



Gymnanthe rains ularum, King and Gamble. Lankawi small 

 islands (Curtis). Endemic. The Genus is confined to 

 the Malay islands and Australia. 



Athcrandra acidifolia, Decne. Lankawi at Kwah (Curtis), 

 Setul (14959). 



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