50 G. King — Materials for a Flora oj the Malayan Fenimula. [No. 1, 
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niidrib and nerves; the lower witli namerous minute adpressed scales; 
main 6 or 7 pairs apimding, curv&d ; lengtli 2 5 to 5'25 in., bi-eadtli 
1 to r75 in,, petiole 'I to "Sin. J'forye^r* fiboat *5 io. in diam-t on short, 
j'liH^y-fcomentose pedicels "15 in. Jong- Calyx caropfiniilate, leathery, 
ad pressed- villose outside like the pedicels, the lobes muoh longer than 
the tube, unequal, oblong, aubacuto. PHSiai^ oblauceolafce, smaller than 
I lie calyx-lobes. Corona single, very short, lanate, in 5 phahmges. 
Stame.m 5^ Gt/nophore shorter than the corona; ovary villose. Krnit 
ovoid or snb-globoac, "5 to '7 in, ftciosa, Mastera in Fl. Br. Ind., II, GOO. 
P. malaytma^ Planch, ex Masters I.e. Trichodia varecifor^nisi Griff. 
Notuh, IV, 571. 
Malacca; Griffith, Manigay, and others. Perak : Scoi-techini, 
KiiJg's Collector J a common plant, 
I cao find, no constant chnractera to separato Llio tvvn apcciea into which thia 
platiL has been divided in the Flora of British India and therofore unite them under 
the oldest specifio nnme. 
2. Passiploka, Linn, 
Twining shrubs. Leaves simple or palmilobed, usually with glands 
on the under surface and on tba petiole ; stipules thread-like or leafy. 
Flowers pedunculate; oftcu involncrafce; peduncleia simple or cymose. 
Bracteoles 3, small, scattered. Calyx kibe fleahj, limb 5-lobed. Fetuls 
5, springing from the throat of the calyx. Coi'ona of one or more rows 
of fine threads springi^tg from tlio throat of the calyx- tube and of one 
or more membraiioua folds arbing lower dowu. Qjjiiophore surrounded 
at the base by a ehallow membranous cup or basilar corona; filamenta 
5, flat ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, dorsifised ; poUon-graina reticulate on 
the surface. Ovary 1-celled j styles 3, stigmas reniform-capitate. Fruit 
bEtccate, Seeds arillate.— DiiSTRiB. A genua of about 250 species which 
are most numerous in tropical awd sub- tropical America. 
Passifloea HoBBFiELDt, Blumc, Uuraplua, I, 170, t. 52. A slender 
climber ; young branches slightly quadrangular, slesider, striate, al- 
most glabrous. Leaves membranous, oval or oblong-ovate, subacute 
sometimea retuse, the base rounded and ralnutely emarginate ; upper 
surface pale-brown when dry, shining, glabrous, minutely I'eticulato ; 
lower surface when young aometiirtes with sparse deciduous hairs, but 
more usually glabrous from the first, always dull and whitish and with 
a few flat diirk-coloured glands, the transverse veins and reticulations 
very dislinct; main-nerves about 5 pairs, ascending, faint; length 4 to 
G in. ; breadth 2*5 to 3*25 in. i petiole '6 to '9 in., with two oval 6at glands 
near its middle. Inflorescefice shorter than the leaves, axillary, about 
5-fli)wornd, the flowers r2o to 15 in. in diam., on slender long- ptjdicels, 
white tinged with green; corona Rouble, the oulor with long erect 
