1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the MaUyan Peninmla. 377 
of this and of Z, glabra^ Eoxb. are obtained^ it may l>e foand impossible 
to keep tliis up as more than a vai-iety of the older species. Kidley's 
Singapore epecimens (No. 6379) have longer-stalked cymes than thoso 
from the Nicohar Islntids or from Java. In the latter tlie cymes do not 
mucli exceed the petiole in length, while in the former they are, evea 
wkeoi in Eoweiv half as lotig as tUe leaf. 
2. C0L1JBEI»A, Rich. 
Erect shmbs. Leaves alternat©. Mowera in rery short axillary 
cymes, Gahjx 5-fid ; tube hemispherical Petals 5, clawed, sprint^ing' 
from the mai'giii of the disc, hooded. SUmiens 5- Disc fleshy, tilling: the 
Cfilyx-tube. Ovary sank in the disc and confluent with it, S-celled ; 
style 3'Cleft ; stigmas reflexed. Fmit the size of a pea, snb}^lobose, 
suiToundcd below the middle by the remains of the calyx-tube, 3-cellod, 
cells l-spcded, tardily dehiscent. — Distrib. Species 18, chiefly tropical 
American- 
Leaves broadly ovate, crenate-serrate ... 1. 0. asiaiica. 
„ oblorjg-oblanceolate, entire ... 2. C. anotnafa, 
1. CoiiUBBiNA ASIATICA, Brongn, in Ann. Sc. Nat- Ser. !<, x, 369. 
A glabrous unarmed shrub, ieat'e* broadly ovate, acute, crenate-serrato, 
(sometimes obscurely), rounded at the base ; main nerves about 3 paii-s, 
curved, ascending ; length 1-5 to 3 in., breadth 1 to 2*25 in. ; petiole '4r 
io '6 in.-, slender. C^mes shorter than the petioles, flowers yellowish. 
W. & A. Prodr. 166 ; Wight 111. i. t, 74 ; Dalz, & Gibs. Bomb, FL 50 ; 
Thwaites Euum, 75 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 642 ; Kmz For. Floi-a 
:gurma, I, 268 j Bedd. F!. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixix. C- jttvatnca, Miq. FL 
Ind. Bat. voLT, pt. 1, G49. Oemiolhus aeiatlcus, Lamk 111. t. 129, f. 2 ; DC. 
Prodr. ii. 30 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 615 ; Wall. Oat. 4^62. C*. capsnlariSt 
Forst. Prodr. 18; DC, Prodr. ii. 32. Fotmderru capsukinSf G. Dot* 
Gen. Syst. ii. S9 ; Burm, Zeylau. t. 48. Rkammis ucuminalaf Colebr. 
in Roxb. FK Ind. i. 615. 
Pahang, Fernk, Nicobar and Andaman Islands. — Distrib. ; Malay 
Ai'chipelago, British India. 
2. CoLUBKiNA ANOMALA, KSug B. sp. A tree 30 to 40 feet high 
with spreading pendent branches ; young shoots softly rusty-puberu-* 
Ions. Leaves oyong-oblauceolafce, caudate-acuminate^ entire, much nar* 
rowed to tlie base : upper surface glabrous, shining ; the lowe-r puberu^ 
loae, liver-coloui'ed when dry ; main nerves 4 pairs, slightly curved, 
ascending, the lowest pair springing fi'om the very base : leagfch 4 to 
0*5 in., breadth I I to 2-25 iu., petiole "4 to '5 in. Otjnies axillary 
or crowded on the branches between the leaves, branching, many- 
flowered, rusty- tome ntose, miuaLt«ly bracteolate. Wlowers '15 in. io 
