1889.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 361 



than the calyx. Aehenes long stipitate, with loug-bearded style. — Distrib. 

 Two E. Asiatic species. 



N". LAUEiFOLiA, Wall. Oat. Young parts puberulous, adult glabrous. 

 Leaflets broadly ovate, shortly acuminato, entire, boldly 5-nerved, 4 to 6 iu. 

 long by 2-5 to 3 in. broad. Panicles longer than the leaves, many- 

 flowered ; petals long, linear, whitish green. Aohenes cylindric, glabrous, 

 with stout sericeous tails. Hook. fll. et Th. PI. Ind. i, 3. ; Hook. fil. Fl. 

 B. Ind. i, 7 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. ii, 2. N. Finlaysoniana, Wall. 

 Cat. 468 (with diseased fruit). Clematis similaoina, Bl. Bijdr. I, 1. 



Common throughout the whole Indo- Malayan region to the Philip- 

 pines. 



Order II. DILLENIAOE^E. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, sim- 

 ple, entire or toothed (pinnatipartite in Acrotrema}, exstipulate with 

 sheathing petioles, or more rarely with lateral deciduous stipules. 

 Flowers yellow or white, often showy. Sepals 6, imbricate, persistent. 

 Petals 5 (rarely 3 or 4) deciduous. Stamens many, hypogynous, many- 

 seriate ; anthers innate, with lateral slits or terminal pores. Carpels 

 ] or more, free or cohering in the axis ; styles always distinct ; ovules 

 amphitropous, solitary or few and ascending, or many and attached to 

 the ventral suture. Fruit of follicles, or indehisoent and sub-baccate. 

 Seeds solitary or many, arillate, testa crustaceous, raphe short, albumen 

 fleshy; embryo minute, next the hilum. — Distrib. Chiefly tropical; 

 species about 210. 



Tribe I. Delimeai. Filaments thickened upwards ; anthers short, 

 cells remote oblique. 



Carpel solitary ... ... .•■ 1- Delima. 



Carpels 2-5 ... ... - - 2. Tetracera. 



Tribe II. Billeniem. Filaments not thickened upwards; anthers 

 with parallel cells. 



Carpels 3; stemloss herbs, leaves all radical, large... 3. Acrotrema. 



Carpels 5-20 ; seeds arillate ... ... 4. Wormia. 



Carpels 5-20; seeds not arillate ... ... 5. Billenia. 



1. Delima, Linn. 

 Woody climbers. Leaves parallel- veined. Flowers many, in ter- 

 minal panicles, hermaphrodite, white. Sepals 5. Petals 2 to 5. Stamens 

 many ; filaments dilated upwards ; cells much diverging. Ovary soli- 

 tary, subglobose, narrowed into a subulate style ; ovules 2 to 3, ascending. 

 Follioles ovoid, coriaceous, 1-seeded. Seed with a cupular toothed aril. 



