390 xcn. AsCLEPiADACE-iE. [Stephanotis. 
with flowers as big as a wine-glass (Hullett). Singapore, Changi, 
covering trees on the wood edge (Hullett). Malacca (Maingay). 
Not seen for many years, and perhaps extinct here. 
(2) S. parviflora Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. By. 57, p. 69. 
Stems creeping and rooting at nodes; bark corky, pale-pubescent 
hairy. Leaves coriaceous, ovate acute, base round, glabrous above, 
hairy beneath; nerves 1 pair from base, 2 pairs from midrib; 
2 to 3 in. long, 1*25 to 1 in. wide; petioles thick hairy, -5 in. long. 
Calyx-lobes lanceolate, glabrous, shorter than corolla-tube. Corolla 
waxy-white, tube 3 in. long, urceolate, limb *75 in. across, lobes 
lanceolate acute, hairy. Corona of five processes oblong, with a 
bifid, linear process on the inner face. Hab. On trees on the edges 
of woods. Perak, Temengoh and Tapah (Ridley). 
26 . TYLOFHORA, Br. 
Twiners. Flowers small in single or branched cymes or racemes 
or sessile clusters, yellow or purple. Calyx 5-glandular within. 
Corolla rotate or campanulate, deeply lobed, lobes overlapping to 
right. Corona of small fleshy tubercles adnate to and radiating 
from stamen base. Staminal column from base of corolla; anthers 
erect, small. Pollinia minute attached by middle to slender 
caudicles. Carpels 2. Style top 5-lobed, flat or convexed, rarely 
longer than anthers. Follicles 2 or 1, acute, sometimes winged. 
About 40 species, tropics and sub-tropics of Old World. 
Inflorescence corymbose; plant glabrous. 
Leaves lanceolate, base round . . . . (1) T. longilolia 
Leaves elhptic-lanceolate small; panicles very lax . (2) T. tenuis 
Inflorescence corymbose; plant hairy . . . (3) T. hirsuta 
Inflorescence paniculate of lengthening racemes; 
follicles ventricose. 
Leaves not cordate . . . . . . {4) T. Wallichii 
Leaves cordate . . . . . . . (5) T. perakensis 
Inflorescence racemose with distant lengthening 
racemes, pubescent; bracts minute . . . (6) T. exilis 
Racemes 1 to 2 elongating with persistent con¬ 
spicuous bracts.(7) T. sguarrosa 
Inflorescence umbellate, cymose; flowers rather large. 
Leaves ovate acuminate . . . . . (8) T. globifera 
Leaves ovate blunt . . . . . . (9) T. asthmatica 
(1) T. longifolia Wight, Contrib. 50; King, l.c. 551. 
A slender glabrous twiner. Leaves membranous, oblong- 
lanceolate acuminate, base broad, rounded; nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 
conspicuous beneath raised, first pair from base; 2*5 to 6 in. long, 
•75 to 175 in. wide; petioles *5 in. long or more. Panicles of 
distant cymes very slender, 3 to 4 in. long from between petioles. 
Flowers yellow, *4 in. across about 4 in umbels *5 to 1 in. apart. 
Calyx-lobes lanceolate. Corolla rotate, lobes oblong blunt. 
Follicles 2, dagger-shaped, long acuminate, 3^5 to 4*5 in. long, 
•25 in. across. Seed oblong broad-winged, *4 in. long, plume 1*5 in. 
