1889.] G. King— Materials for a mora of the Malayan Peninsula. 385 



each embracing a stamen. Filaments free, clavate ; anthers broad, 4^ 

 celled. Bipe drupes 1 to 1-25 in. long, and about 6 in. broad, narrowly 

 sub-obovoid, compressed ; pericarp of a thin pulp ; endocarp horny, nar- 

 rowly horse-shoo-shaped, the edge boldly ridged, the sides with deep 

 radiating grooves and the central part with a deep vertical hollow : em- 

 bryo sausage-shaped, bent along the circumferential chamber of the 

 endocarp. 



Perak, Ulu Bubong ; King's collector, ITos. 4417 and 10282. 



This has the flower of Ooooultis, but the fruit of Stephania. It 

 comes nearest to the Indian 0. macrocarpus, which has a similar though 

 smaller fruit, and, like that species, would belong to Miers' genus Diplo- 

 disia. It must be near B. pictinervis of that author. 



11. Peuicamptlus, Miers. 

 A climbing shriib. Leaves subpeltate ; petioles slender, articulate. 

 Flowers in axillary cymes. Sepals 6, with 3 bracts, outer smaller, inner 

 spathulate. Petals 6, cuneate. Male flower : stamens 6, filaments cylin- 

 dric ; authei's adnate, bursting transversely. Female flower : stamiiiodes 

 6, clavate. Ovaries 3 ; styles 2-partite, segments subulate. Drupes sab- 

 globose ; endocarp horse-shoe-shaped, dorsally crested and ochinate, sides 

 excavated. Seed curved ; cotyledons elongate, flat, scarcely broader than 

 the radicle. 



1. P. INCANUS, Miers Contrib. iii. 118, t. 3. Young branches 

 minutely tomontose, not striate. Leaves membranous, orbiculai'-reniform, 

 obtuse or acute, sometimes slightly retuse, mucronulate, the base trun- 

 cate or sub-cordate ; upper surface pubescent or glabresoent, lower to- 

 mentoso ; nerves usually 5 ; length of blade 2 to 4 in., breadth about '5 in. 

 or more ; petiole 1 to 2 in. C^/iJies pedunculate, axillary, in fascicles of about 

 4, 2-3-chotomous. Flowers minute, crowded. Petals 6, obovate, larger 

 than the sepals. Bipe drupe the size of a pea. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. lud. i. 

 102 ; Hf. & Th. Fl. Indica, 194 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pfc. 1, 83. P. 

 adtmous, assamious, and membranaceus, Miers I. o. 119-122. Ooaaulus 

 iiicanus, Ooleb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 57. Oissampelos mauritiana, 

 Wall. Oat. 4980 (not of DC). Menisp. villosum, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 812 

 (not of Lamk.). 



A common climber. Distrib. British India, Java, Sumatra, and 

 probably in other parts of the Malayan Archipelago. 



12. STEPnANiA, Louroiro. 

 Climbing shrubs. Leaves usually peltate. Flowers in axillary, 

 cymoso umbels. Male flower : sepals 6 to 10, free, ovate or obovate. Petals 

 3 to 5, obovate, fleshy. AntJi"rs 6, connate, encircling the top of the 



