1889.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 387 



lenlacea, Willd. Wall. Cat. 4979 ; W. & A. Prod. i. 14 ; Roxb. I. o. 0. 



orbiculata, discolor and Idrsuia, Ham. DO. Z. c. 101. 0. diversa, gral- 

 latoria, eriantha, elata and delicatula, Miers I. c. 187-189. 0. suh-peltata, 

 Thw. Enum. 13 & 399 ; Miers I. c. 196. Menispernmm orhiculatum, 

 Linn. 



A common climber in all parts of the Settlements. Distrib. Every- 

 where in the Tropics. 



14. CrciiEA, Arnott. 

 Climbing shrubs. Leaves usually j)eltate. Flowers in axillary pani- 

 cles ; Male flower : sepals 4-8, connate into an inflated 4-5-lobed calyx. 

 Petals 4 to 8, more or less counate into a 4 or 8-lobod corolla. Anthers 

 4 to 6, connate, crowning the staminal column, bursting transversely. 

 Female floiver : sepal 1, oblong. Petal 1, orbicular. Ovary 1 ; style 

 short, 8 to 6-lobed, lobes radiating. Drupe ovoid, style-scar subbasal ; 

 endocarp horse-shoe-shaped, dorsally tubercled, sides convex, 2-locellate 

 (as in Limacia) . Seed curved; cotyledons slender, ^-terete, appressed. 

 — Distrib. Tropical Asia. 



1. 0. PELTATA, H. f. & Th. Fl. Indica, 201. Branchlets striate, 

 reflexed, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, peltate, deltoid or 

 orbicular-ovate, acute or acuminate, often mucronate, the base truncate 

 to cordate ; above glabrous or glabrescent, beneath pubescent to tomen- 

 toso, the 9 nerves rather prominent, length of blade 4-5 to 5-5 in., 

 breadth 3-5 to 4 5 in. ; petiole '2 to 2-5 in., reflexed, pubescent or tomon- 

 tose, striate. Panicles usually longer than the leaves, the males often 

 much branched and spreading and a foot long, the females smallei-. 

 Calyx campanulate, 4-lobed, glabrous or pilose externally. Corolla 

 much smaller. Drupe pisiform, pilose ; endocarp much tuberculate. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 104: Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. 1, 86; Miers 

 Contrib. iii. 236 ; C. harhata, Arnottii, versicolor, la;eifl.ora and peiidulina, 

 Miers I. c. Menisp. peltatum, Lamk. Cocculus peltafus, DO. Prod. i. 96. 

 Clypea Burmanni, W. & A., in part. Cyclea JBiirmanni, Arnot in 

 Wight 111. i. 22. Bhaptomeris Burmanni, Miers in Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, 

 vii. 41. 



Not common in the Straits Settlements. Distrib. Java, British 

 India, Ceylon. 



2. 0. ELEGANS, King, nov. spec. Young branches spirally striate, 

 puberulous, as are the petioles and panicles ; otherwise glabrous. Leaves 

 slightly peltate, membranous, shining on both surfaces, the reticulations 

 minute, distinct, ovate to ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, the base 

 rounded or cordate, 7-nerved (4 of the nerves minute) ; length of blade 

 3 to 4 in., breadth l-.*) to 2 in., petiole about 1 in. Male and female 



