54 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at base or cuneate, often 
unequal, 3 in. long, -75 to 1 in. broad, serrate or almost entire, the 
serratures mucronate ; chartaceous ; glabrous above, glaucous and 
glabrous or with scattered pubescence beneath ; midrib slender, main- 
nerves 4-6 pairs at about 30 degrees with the midrib, arching and 
joining near the margin ; petiole short, -15 to ‘25 in. long. Flowers 
solitary, terminal or in the forks of a dichotomous cyme; peduncles 
•3 to '5 in. long, those of terminal flowers shorter ; bracts small linear. 
Calyx-tube in bud shortly adnate to the ovary, in fruit often half-way 
up; teeth -2 to - 3 in. long, linear-lanceolate, often serrate. Corolla 
epigynous, shortly campanulate, white or yellowish-white, '3 to • 5 in. 
long ; lobes 5, triangular acute. Stamens - 15 in. long ; anthers linear, 
■05 in. long, filaments dilated. Ovary 5-6-celled; style thickened 
upwards, then cylindric, angled ; stigma about 4-cleft. Berry -3 to 
■4 in. in diam., globose, white, slightly succulent, becoming nearly dry, 
breaking up irregularly. Seeds very many, minute, ovoid, flattened, 
testa smooth. A. DC. Monog. Camp. 120, Prod. VII. 423 ; Clarke in 
Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 436 ; Prain Beng. Plants I. 634. C. trunoata, 
Endl. Gen. PI. I. 515. Codonopsis trunoata, Wall. Cat. 1301 ; DC. l.e. 
123 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. II. 566. C. leucocarpa and C. celebica, Miq. 
l.c. II. 565, 566. C. albiflora, Griff. Notul. IV. 279. Cyclocodon 
lancifolium, Kurz in Flora 303 ; Journ. As. Soe. Beng. XLVI. 210, 
partly. C. truncatum, Hook. f. and Th. in Journ. Linn. Soc. II. 18. 
C. adnatus, Griff. ; Benth. in Gen. PI. II. 558. Campanula lancifolia, 
Roxb. PL Ind. I. 505 ; DC l.c. 485. 
Penang : Curtis 2089. Perak ; Wray 3236 ; Scortechini. — Distrib. 
India from the Sikkim Himalaya to Chittagong and Burma, Malay 
Islands, Southern China. 
3. Pentaphragma, Wall. 
Fleshy perennial herbs, with short, often rooting, little-branched 
stems. Leaves alternate, broad, rounded, sometimes very unequal at 
the base, petioles rather long. Inflorescence of axillary or lateral dense 
braeteate scorpioid spikes or racemes, the flowers generally in pairs 
between the bracts. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; lobes 4-5, 
superior, obtuse, persistent, unequal in size. Corolla campanulate, the 
tube short, lobes 4-5. Stamens 5 alternate with the corolla-lobes, 
epigynous or on the corolla tube ; anthers ovate or oblong ; filaments 
dilated, curved outwards when open. Ovary 3-5-celled ; style short, 
cylindric ; stigma large, cylindric or conical, obscurely 4-5-lobed ; 
placentas bifid, ovules many. Fruit a more or less succulent berry, 
dehiscence unknown (<?/. Roxb. FI. Ind. I. 506). Seeds very many. 
