90 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. I, 
Leaves longer than broad, their bases not 
cordate or only minutely so. 
Staminal tube with entire mouth 
Staminal tube with its mouth 5-lobed. 
Leaves quite glabrous. 
Capsule less than 1 in. in diam., 
covered with glandular bar- 
bed spines 
Capsule more than 1 in. in 
diam., covered with short 
subulate spines ... 
Leaves more or less minutely hispid 
on both surfaces 
„ hispid on the upper, hispid- 
tomentose on the lower, 
surface 
Leaves about as broad as long, deeply cordate 
at the base. 
Leaves glabrous, or glabrescent, not 
lobed 
„ sparsely pubescent, often 
lobed 
1. B. Gurtisii. 
2. B. uncinala. 
3. B. Maingayi. 
4. B. elliptica. 
5. B. Jackiana. 
6. B. aspera. 
7. B. Andamanensis. 
1. B. Curtisii, Oliver in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1761. A slender woody 
creeper, 10 to 15 feet long: young branches minutely puberulous. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, rarely ovate-oblong, 
acuminate, entire, narrowed to the sub-obtuse, minutely cordate, 5- 
nerved base : lateral nerves numerous, unequal and spreading at various 
angles, reticulations distinct : both surfaces glabrous, the lower with 
tufts of stellate hairs in the axils of the leaves ; length 2o to 7 in., 
breadth '5 to 2 in. ; petiole - 25 in., pubescent. Cymes in axillary fascicles 
of 2 to 4, slender, 3 to 7-flowered, puberulous ; peduncles about 1 in. 
long : flower pedicels '25 in. Flowers '45 in. in diam., buds conical. Calyx 
deeply 5-partite, the segments ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Petals strap- 
shaped with 2 rather broad indexed lateral lobes, and a long cylindric 
curved sub-terminal appendage, about as long as the sepals. Capsule 
globular, about 1 in. in diam., veined, pubescent, and armed with 
numerous straight smooth bristles. 
Penang, Curtis, Nos. 817 and 1166 ; Perak, common at low eleva- 
tions. 
This is closely allied to the Bornean B. lancifolia, Hook. fil. The 
leaves vary a good deal in shape, the most prevalent form in the Perak 
