362 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



1. D. SARMENTOSA, Linn. Leaves 3 to 6 in., obovate, ovate or 

 broadly lanceolate, obtuse or acute, quite entire, serrate or crenate, 

 appressed pilose ; both surfaces scabrid ; nerves 9 to 11 pairs, straight, 

 ascending, prominent : length 2-5 to 3-5 in., breadth 1 to 2 in., petiole 

 •4 to '5 in. Flowers | to | in. in diam., in tomentose or pilose spreading 

 panicles that are often leafy. Sepals reflexed. DC. Prod. i. 69 ; WaU. 

 Cat. 6632 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3058. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. ii, 7 ; Hook, 

 n. Fl. B. Ind. I, 31. D. intermedia, Bl. Bijdr. Tetraeera sarmentosa, 

 Willd. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 645. Leontoglossum scahrum, Hance in 

 Walp. Ann. iii. 812. 



Var. 1. GLABRA ; fruit glabrous. 



Var. 2. HEBECAKPA ; fruit hairy. D. Jielecarpa, DO. Prod, i, 70 ; 

 Deless. Ic. Sel. t. 72 ; Wall. Cat. 6633. D. intermedia, Blume. Davilla 

 hirsuta, Teysm . et Binn. Belimopsis hirta, Miq. 



2. D. LjEVis, Maingay MSS. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to narrowly 

 elliptic, acute, entire, the base cuneate or rounded ; nerves 8 to 9 pairs, 

 ascending, prominent ; upper surface Smooth, shining ; the lower pu- 

 berulous ; neither of them scabrid ; length 5 to 7-5 in., breadth 2 to 3-5 

 in., petiole '8 in., broad. Flowers '6 in. in diam., in narrow tomentose 

 leafless panicles longer than the leaves. Sepals reflexed. 



Malacca, Maingay No. 10. Collected only by the late Dr. Maingay. 



2. Teteaceea, Linn. 

 Climbing shrubs or trees, smooth, scabrid, or pubescent. Leaves 

 with parallel lateral veins. Flmoers in terminal or lateral panicles, her- 

 maphrodite or partially 1-sexual. Sepals 4 to 6, spreading. Petals 4 to 6. 

 Stamens many, filaments dilated upwards, anther-cells distant. Carpels 

 3 to 5 ; ovules many, 2-seriate. Follicles coriaceous, shining. Seeds 1 to 5, 

 with a fimbriated or toothed aril.— Distrib. All tropical; species 

 about 25. 



1. T. AssA. DO. Prod. i. 68. Young branches striate, pubescent or 

 sub-strigose. Leaves 2 to 5 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, obscurely 

 sinuate or serrate, glabrous except the nerves beneath. Panicles axillary 

 and terminal, shorter than the leaves, few-flowered. Follicles several- 

 seeded. W. and A. Prod. 5 ; Hassk. PI. Rar. Jav. 177. Hook. fil. and 

 Th. Fl. Ind. i, 63 : Hook, fil. Fl. B. Ind. L 31: Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 

 Pt. ii. 8. 



Common throughout Indo-Malaya, at low elevations. 



2. T. EuRTAMDEA, Vahl. Symb. iii, 71. Young branches tomentose. 

 Leaves rigid, 3 to 4 in. long, oblong or obovate-oblong, entire or obscurely 

 sinuate, above glabrous except the midrib, below minutely tomentose 

 when young. Panicles terminal and axillary, shorter than the leaves, 



