54 G. King — ^fateria1s for a Flora of Ike Malayan Feninsula. [No. 1, 
long m the male^ J-ubular, Galyx fis in tlio iisftle, tlie teeth recurved. 
Petah as in tlie male, iheiv npieeR eiiiire or niinntely serrulate. Ovanj 
ovoid, OQ a short gj^nophore, the Bfcigma peltate 3-loljed. Fruit broadly 
fusiform, 2 to 2*5 in. long and 1 in, indiam. at the middle, dirty-yellowiflh 
"wheo dry. Seeds corapmsscd, stib-rofcnnd, keeled, with prominf*iifc 
sharply edged deep pitg in the centre and a i-ow of elongate pits ronnd 
the edges. Modecca mrdiophylla, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 602, 
Moikcca cordifoUaf Kurz (not of Bliirao) in JoEi'ii. As. fcSoc. Beiig., 1870, 
IT, 132: Masters in Hook. fll. ¥1 Br. Ind. IT, 602. M. hetewphjlla, 
Knrz, (not of Binme) Andam. Report Append* A., 39. 
Andaman Islands; very common, Nicobab and Great Coco 
Isr^ANoa; Prain, — DiSTRtB. Cambodia, Khasia Hills and Eastern Bengal, 
tropical Eastern Himalaya. . ^ 
A epociee well marked by ita deeply cordftta loaves mach reticulate on the 
lower flurface, wklely-spreadinf? cymoa aad eub rotaiiid crrenceltnttj pitted seeds. Some 
oonfuaton in nomenelatiirc lias arlBen fmm the fact i\mt Kunij withoat having ewa 
atithentic epeoiineiis of Blame's two spociflB Motlecea conlifolia &nd M. heterophylla 
referred thia plant to both of them. Dr. Masters perpetuated part of Karz'a miatalce 
by accepting his view aa to tho identity of this AndaTOan and NIcobar ptant with 
If. cordifoliHf Blame, whereas the whole of the Andaman material (greatly iucreaBtHl 
in bulk since he wrote) really belongs to his own apeuiea M, curdiophylta. Tbia 
view wna firat ©xpresaed by Dr. D. Praia, Superintendent of the Calcutta Garden 
ia a note ou one of the spectmena in the Horbariltim there. 
4. Adenia popdl! FOLIA, Engl. Ill Jnhrb. XIV, 376, var, pentamera 
King. A slender and often very extensive cli)i>ber (often 150 ff^ct) 
tSterm slender, smooth, terete, iicaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-oval e, 
gradually naiTowed to the acnte or sub-acnte apex, the base slightly 
cordate j both surfaces smooth, the nerves and reticulations little pix»- 
minent when dry; main-nerves 5 to 7 pairs, curved, spreading, rather 
fftiut; length 3 to 5 in. ; breadth Vlo to 2 5 in. j petiole *75 to 125 in., 
ita ajiex bearing 2 large cup -shaped glands conjoined by their backs. 
Pefhtncles shorter than ( lie leaves with 2 slender spreading brandies 
and a single mther stout tendril. Flowers not numcixjas, on glender 
unequal pedicels, some of them '75 in. long, Male flower '2 in. long* 
nari'owly fu.siform ; the calyx with 5 short oblong blunt lobes. Fefols 
springing from the cnlyx-tiihc just below its lobes, and like them but 
narrower. Anthers 5, broadly linear, the connective slightly produced 
beyond the apex, shortly sngittate at the base; filaments joined into a 
tube and inserted into the fundus of the calyx : rudimentay ovary 
linear. Female flowhe shorter than the male (only *15 in. long) and 
not so slender but with similar calyx^lobes and petals. Ovanj oblong, 
CTOwned by three erect oblong rather large stigmas. Fruit double fusi- 
form, deep red when ripe, 2 5 to 3 in. long and from *75 to 1 in. in 
