128 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
The leaves of this resemble those of I. ovalis , Bl. ; but they are 
more velvetty beneath. The calyx and fruit are much larger than in 
that species and the cymes have fewer flowers. 
3. Iodes ovalis, Blume Bijdr. 30. A climbing shrub 20 to 60 
feet long; young branches slender, rufous-tomentose, striate, with a 
few axillary or leaf-opposed tendrils. Leaves opposite, sub-coriaceous, 
ovate to rotund, acute or very shortly acuminate, the base rounded 
sometimes slightly emarginate ; upper surface glaberulous, the midrib 
and nerves rufous-tomentose like the whole of the lower surface ; main 
nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending, prominent on the lower surface 
as are the transverse veins ; length 25 to 5*5 in., breadth 175 to 325 in. 
Male flowers in leaf-opposed or terminal, much-branched, lax, rufous- 
tomentose cymes 6 to 8 in. long. Flowers *15 in. in diam., on pubescent 
pedicels *1 to '2 in. long. Galyx discoid, irregularly 3- to 6-toothed 
rufous-villose. Gorolla 5 or 6 times as long as the calyx, deeply divided 
into 5 lanceolate lobes with long acuminate indexed points, strigose 
externally, glabrous internally ; stamens much shorter than the corolla- 
lobes, the filaments much shorter than the broadly ovate anthers ; rudi¬ 
mentary pistil erect, cylindric, pilose. Female floivers with calyx and 
corolla like the male; stamens 0. Ovary cylindric, tomentose, crowned by 
a large discoid stigma wider than itself, 1-celled, with 2 pendulous 
ovules. Drupe ovoid, compressed, slightly oblique at the base, rufous- 
tomentose, crowned by the persistent stigma, 75 in. long, and *5 in. in 
diam., pericarp thin ; endocarp bony, rugose outside, smooth inside. 
Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 596 ; Beccari Malesia, I, 124 ; Baill. in 
DO. Prod. XVII, 22 ; I. tomentella cumvar. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Bar. 
243, t. 48; Hassle. Cat. PI. Hort. Bogor. 172; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. 795. 
I. tomentella , Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 796; Kurz For. Flora 
Burmah I, 243. Natsatium oppositifolium , Planch, in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. Bot. V, 247. 
Malacca; Griffith, Maingay. Perak; Scortechini, Curtis, King’s 
Collector ; common.— Distrib. —Burmah, Sumatra. 
4. Iodes oblonga, Planch, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 597. A 
slender climbing shrub; young branches cinereous-tomentose, ulti¬ 
mately glabrescent and rugose. Leaves membranous, oblong or ob¬ 
long-lanceolate, glabrous above except the pilose midrib and nerves, 
beneath adpressed-pilose, the midrib pubescent; main nerves 7 or 8 
pairs, curving, spreading; length 3 to 4‘5 in., breadth 1 to P6 in., 
petiole '3 or ‘4 in. Cymes of male flowers axillary or terminal, dichotom- 
ously branched, slender, cinereous-pilose. Male flowers ‘05 in. long. 
Calyx nearly as long as the corolla, with 5 deep lanceolate lobes. 
Corolla rufous-tomentose externally. Female flowers and drupes not seen, 
