IS97.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pminmlu. 339 
Penaho. 
Thifl variety does not appear to have been collected einca Wallich'e timo. 1 
tnnoh doubt wlietber it is worth keopiog op oven aa a varioty. 
Var. pnbe.^cem. King, Leuves pubescent in the iinder eorfaco. 
Peiiae; King's Collector 889. 
6. CoMDEETiTM SQUAMOSUM, Roslj. Fl. Ind. Ill, 23). A largo creeper; 
joang brandies slender, cylindricj covorod (like almost all other parts of 
the plant) with scales with broad pale margins. Leaves opposite, thinly 
coriaceous, broadly elliptic or elliptic- rotund, rarely ovate- lauceol ate , 
shortly and abrnptly acuminate; the base rounded, rarely sah-cuiieate ; 
both sarfacea dull wkeu diy and scaly, but without hairs; length 3"25- 
5"5 in., breadth 2'25-i"5 in. ; petiote "3-'4 in,, scalj- Spikes axillary or 
terminal, solitary or in paniclea, shorter tlian the leaves, fcw-bmuchecl. 
Flowers '15 in, in diam. at the mouth. Calyx-ttihe shortly constricted 
above the 4-angled ovary ; the month cupular, with 4 broadly triangular 
teeth. Petals email, obovate. Disc and fundus of mouth of calyx 
fnlvous-villose. IB^idt '7h-X'$ in. long and nearly as bioail (including 
the wings), with 4 wide thin membranous wings, sqnamose at the 
bottom of the deep grooves between the wings. Wall. Cat, 3iiS7 ; Miq. 
FL lud. Bat. I, pt, I, 607 ; G. Dot* in Ti-ans. Linn, Soo, XV, 438 ( in- 
accurate as to the floral spmnelri/); W. & A, Prodr. 317; Kurz For. 
Fl. Brit. Burma I, 463 ; Clarke in Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 456. 
0, lepidoium, Presl Bemerk. 142 (see Kurz in Flora 1871, p. 389). 
0. Makiloea, Wall. Cat. 3991. 
Malacca; Maingay 648. Andaman Tslakds. Pbrak; Kinfs Col- 
lector 508S. Pehang ; WallicK King's Gollector 1335, Gnrtis 258. 
A Hpooies eaaily recogtiiflod by being OTorywhoro oovered with scaloa. Some of 
the Penaiig apeoimens havo ovate«olliptic leafefl i othorwiao tlioy do not differ from 
apociriLons from other plucea. 
7. COM UEKTUM Wbayi, King n. spec. Young . branches slender, 
striate when dry, glabroua but slightly scaly. Leaves opposite, coria- 
ceous, narrowly elliptic, subacute ov very shortly and bluntly acuminatej 
the base rounded ; both surfaces reticulate, the upper glabrous and 
shining ; the lewer dull, glabrous elaewhei-e, but with some coarse hairs 
along the sides of the midrib near its base ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairff, 
ascending, curbed, slightly prominent beneath ; length 2-5-3'5 in., breadth 
l'15-l o in. ; petiole Sb- ^t in., rather rough when dry, those in the 
upper part of the stera and in the axils of wMeh the spikes arise much 
smaller. Spikes axillary, solitary, about 1 in. long, the peduncles gla- 
brous, the floriferoua part pubescent and scaly. Floivers few, in clusters 
of 2 or 3. Cahjx-titbe 'lo in. long, shortly constricted above the ovar^. 
the mouth campaoulate and deeply cut into 4 triangular acute oreet 
