92 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
2 to 3 in., tomentose. TJmhels pedunculate, solitary or in fascicles of 5 or 
6, axillary, few-flowered, stellate-tomentose : peduncles '5 to 1 in. j 
pedicels '1 to '25 in., both slender. Buds -l in. in diam. Sepals ovate, 
acuto. Petals rounded, with long cylindric inflexed apices longer than 
the sepals. Fruit unknown. 
Malacca, Maingay : No. 241 (Kew Distrib.). Perak; Scortechini. 
Evidently a rare species; for I have seen, besides Maingay’s, only 
Scortechini’s solitary specimen. 
5. B. Jackuna, Wall, in Roxb. FI. Tnd. (ed Carey) ii. 386. A 
Stout woody creeper, the young branches with densely minute ferrugi- 
nous tomentum some of which is stellate. Leaves nan’owly or broadly 
elliptic, acuminate, entire ; the base boldly 3-nerved, rounded, sometimes 
slightly cordate, rarely acute ; upper surface sparsely and shortly hispid ; 
under surface rufous, hispid-tomentose especially on midrib and nerves, 
many of the hairs on both surfaces stellate ; lateral nerves 3 or 4 pairs, 
curved, spreading; length 35 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 3 75 in. ; petiole '4 
to 1 in. tomentose. Umbels pedunculate, solitary or in groups of 3 or 4 
from the leaf-axils, few-flowered, tomentose : peduncles '25 to 1 in. 
long ; pedicels about '35, slender. Sepals linear-subulate, spreading, 
hispid, about '4 in. long. Petals sub-rotund, lobed, each with a single 
long cylindrio terminal appendage as long as the sepals. Capsule glo- 
bose, slightly 5-furrowed, 1 in. in diam., black, glabrescent, armed with 
many straight spines. Seeds oblong, black. Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. 
Ind. i. 376 ; Wall. Cat. 1147. 
Penang, Perak and Singapore ; at low elevations. 
6. B. Aspera, Colebr. in Roxb. FI. Ind. (ed. Carey), ii. 383. A 
powerful woody climber often with a tree-like stem ; young branches 
glaucous, minutely and deciduously pubescent. Leaves sub-orbicular 
or ovate-orbicular, shortly acuminate, entire, the base cordate, 5 to 7- 
nerved ; upper surface glabrous, shining; the lower glabrescent, the 
midrib and nerves puberulous ; lateral nerves 4 to 6 pairs, prominent 
beneath as are the stout transverse veins ; length 4'5 to 7'5 in., breadth 
about the same : petiole 2 to 5 in., glaucous-pubescent at first, afterwards 
glabrous. Cymes axillary, solitary or fasciculate, pedunculate, much 
branched, many-flowered, pubescent to tomentose, 3 or 4 in. long : 
ultimate pedicels '5 in. long, slender. Sepals lanceolate, acute, spreading, 
'15 in. long, puberulous externally. Petals cuneate, shorter than the 
sepals, 3-lobed, the middle lobe linear-lanceolate, reflexed. Staminodes 
truncate. Ovary globular, scabrid. Capsules globular, I'5 to 2 in. 
in diam., slightly depressed, pubescent when young, glabrons when ripe, 
