Lepistemon.] xcvn. convolvulace^e. 463 
across, yellowish white. Capsule *25 in. long. Hab. Thickets on 
borders of forests. Selangor, Batu Caves; Sungei Buluh. Negri 
Sembilan, Tampin Hill. Perak, Tapah; Goping (Kunstler). 
Province Wellesley, Ara Kudah. Disirib. Assam to Philippines. 
Excluded Species and Plants Cultivated Only 
Porana volubilis Burnt. The bridal wreath. A big woody 
climber with large panicles of small white flowers, commonly 
cultivated in gardens, a native of the Eastern Archipelago. 
Griffith has specimens from hedges in Malacca, but it is 
certainly not wild here. 
Operculina turpethum Manso, given as from Malacca, Griffith, 
by Prain, l.c. 308. Griffith’s plant in Herb Kew was collected 
in Mergui, and no one else has found it in the Peninsula. O. 
tuberosa Meissn, Prain , l.c. 308 was formerly cultivated in 
the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, and spread as far as across 
the road opposite, but has, I believe, now quite disappeared. 
Calonyction bona-nox Boj. Hort. Maur. 227. The moon flower 
is often cultivated in gardens, but does not establish itself 
outside. 
Quamoclit pinnata Boj. Hort. Maurit. 224, with crimson red or 
white flowers and finely cut fennel-like leaves, and Q. phcenicea 
Choisy, Conv. Or. 51, t. 1, /. 1, with ovate-cordate entire or 
' lobed leaves and scarlet flowers are cultivated in gardens, 
but have not established themselves outside. 
Order XCVIIL CARDIOPTERID^:. 
Twiners or trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers in panicles, 
small, bisexual. Calyx tubular, 5-lobed, lobes imbricate. Corolla 
campanulate or tubular, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, attached to tube. 
Ovary 1- to 2-celled; ovules 2; styles 2. Fruit winged. Seed 1, 
linear, albuminous. Genera 2 and species 5, Malayan. These 
plants, formerly placed in Olacince , are transferred to a more 
natural affinity here. 
Climbing herb; flowers in axillary scorpioid cymes 
panicled . . . . . . . . r. Cardiopteris 
Trees; flowers in terminal panicles . . . .2. Pteleocarpa 
1 . CARDIOPTERIS, Wall. 
A slender glabrous Iaticiferous herb, climbing. Leaves alter¬ 
nate, membranous, ovate-cordate, palminerved. Flowers very 
small, white in axillary lax scorpioid panicles. Calyx 5-partite, 
imbricate. Corolla campanulate, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 5, 
short, attached to the tube. Pistil cylindric, i-celled. Ovules 2. 
Stigmas 2, 1 short, the other lengthening after flowering, Fruit 
a thin obovate retuse samara. Species 1, Indo-Malaya. 
