l^iOO.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Fminmla. 53 
or acute ; npp«r surface glabrous ; length 2"6 to 5 in. j breadth 1*2 to 
2'2 in. J petiole '3 to '5 in. Panicles both axillaiy and terminal, the 
formet' shorter than the leaves or sb'gfhtlj exceeding tliem, the latter 
longer, all rather lax, the branch lets divaricating, cjmese, and with a 
few short, linear^ deciduous bractlefcs. Flowers nearly 1 in, loirg (in- 
cluding the stamens), Calyx-tuhe oblong- campanu late or funnel-shaped, 
deuselj lepidote-stellate ; the mouth expanded and obscurely 4- toothed. 
Petals obovate-oblong, blunt, glabrous. S tarnons Sf usually equal (four 
Bomelimes shorter or obsolete) ; baaal processes long, linear^ atib-erect. 
Fruit cylindric-campauulato, sub-glabrous, crowned bj the slightly 
enlarged limb o£ the calyx, '25 in, long. BlumOj Mue. Bot. I, 36 (excl. 
syu. Korth.); Nattdin in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. XV, 09, tab. 4 tig.; 
M'lq. Fh Ind. Bat, I, pt. I, 528 i Triana iu Trans. Liun. Soc. XXVUI, 
83, t^b. VII, fig. S9b I C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. hi. Br. Ind. 11, 644 ; 
Cogn. iu DC. Mon, Phau. VII, 557, Melmloma pallttkt, Jack in Trana. 
Linn. Soc, ZIV, 12 ; DC. Prodr, III, 150 ; Wall. Cat. 4049. Dmochxta 
ovalifoUa and D, mperbaf Hand. I.e. 76 and 77. D, adroiricJta, Miq, I.e. 
SuppL ai8. 
Iq all the proyinces except the Nicobar and Andaman Islandii; 
common. 
The four fltatneoa wlilch are UBQahy sbortcr than the otlier we aometimoa 
6. DtJjSOCHJHA GKAUJLis, Blume in J'lora, 1831, 4DS. A sfrfig- 
gling or scandent shrub ; young bmnchcs Silender, bluntly 4-angled, 
the nodes swollen and transversely ridged, minutely scaly like the 
petioles, leaves and panicles. Leaves o-nerved (the lateral pair nlender), 
broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, i-ounded at the Ijase and eliortly 
acuuiinalo at the apex; length 3 to 4'5 in.; breadth 1'5 to IS in.; 
petiole "2 to *4 in, Famcles axillary and terminal, the former shorter 
than, and tlie latter longer than the leaves, slender, api-eading, ]a;f, 
many-flowered ; bmctg few, narrowly oblong, caducoiie. Fiow^'s *8B 
in. long, on filiform pedicels longer than themselves, Cahjx-lnhe 
narrowly campanulate, minutely stellate-pubescent, the mouth glabrous, 
Bub-ti'uncate, everted, and obscurely 4- toothed, Fctale 4, brofldly ovate 
or sub-orbicular, blunt. Staviejm 8 ; four largo, perfect, rather short, 
with a broad truncate 2-pored apex ; the four imperfect small, naiTOw ; 
all with two erect, 0liform flat baeal appendages. Fruit aub-globnlar, 
Giwned by the naiTOW limb, almost glabrous, '1 to '15 in, in diara, 
Korthals Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 237; Nand. in Ann. Sc. Nu^t. Ser. 8, 
XV, 75; Mic|. Ft. Ind. Bat. I. pt. I, S26; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc, 
XXVIIT, 83, tab. VII, fig, 89c; C. B. Clarke in Hook hi FI. Br. Ind. 
II, 544; Cugi]. in DC, Mon. Fhan, VII, 55£). Mclastotna gracile^ Jack 
