1889.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 393 



often sliowy. Sepals 4, free, imbricate in 2 series, or 2 outer subvalyate. 

 Petals 4, sessile, imbricate. 6'to??ie?is. indefinite, inserted on tbe torus at 

 the base of the long gynophore. Ovary stalked, 1 to 4-CGlled ; stigma 

 sessile ; ovules many, on 2 to 6 parietal placentas. Fridt fleshy, rarely 

 bursting by valves. Seeds many, imbedded in pulp, testa crustaceoua 

 or coriaceous ; cotyledons convolute. — Distrib. Species 125, natives of 

 all warm, climates, except N. America. 



Synopsis of Species. 

 Fruit globose or sub-globose. 



Flowers solitary, axillary ... ...1. 0. Larutensis. 



„ umbellate ... ,,, ... 2. 0. sepiaria. 



„ racemose ... ... ... 3. 0. Saorteehinii. 



Flowers supra-axillary, in rows of 2 or 3. 



Leaves 3 to 4 in. long- ... ... 4. O. micracantha. 



„ 6 to 7 in. long... ... 5. 0. pubijlora. 



Fruit much elongate, cucumber-shaped. 



Fruit 4 to 7 in. long ... ... 6. G. Finlaysoniana. 



„ Sin. long. ... ... ...7. 0. cucurbit ina. 



1. 0. Larutensis, King, n. sp. Scandent, the young branches and 

 petioles densely covered with minute, rusty, sub-deciduous, tomeiitum. 

 Stem sub-striate ; prickles in pairs, short, hooked. Leaves glabrous, 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or retuse, the midrib prominent, 

 the 5 or 6 pairs of nerves obscure; length 1 to 1*25 in., breadth 4 in., 

 petiole "2 in. Floiuer-pedicels solitary, glabrous, more than half as long 

 as the leaves. Flowers "75 in. in diam., white to pink. Sepals fleshy, 

 glabrous, the outer pair ovate ; the inner rotund, concave. Petals oblong, 

 glabrous. Stamens about 12. Gryuophore slender, nearly 2 in. long. 

 Fruit globose, with an apical beak. 



Perak, at Laroot, on trees. King's Collector, No. 5103. 



A woody climber, ' 30 to 40 feet long. The petals change from 

 white to Spink. Ripe fruit is tmknown. This must be near G. erythro- 

 dasys, Miq. 



2. C. SEPIAEIA, Linn. A scrambling shrub. Branches divaricate, 

 with rather distant pairs of short recurved thorns, sub-striate, the younger 

 puberulous. Leaves membranous, shortly petiolate, ovate to oblong, pubes- 

 cent or glabrescent, nerves 4 or 5 pairs. Flowers, -35 to -5 in. in diam., in 

 terminal umbels, the pedicels slender, '5 in long ; buds globose. Sepals 

 oblong. Petals narrow, white. Ovary apiculate, gynophore '25 to "5 in. 

 long. JVMti! pisiform, black. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 177: Miq. FI. 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 101 : DO. Prod. i. 247 : Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 568 : W. & A. 

 Prod. 26 : Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 22 : Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flora, 

 10 : Kurz. For. Fl. Burm. i. 66. 



