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colored, the herbaceous parts subolivaceous. Leaves ovate to 

 oblong-ovate, chartaceous or submembranaceous, 3 to 6 cm long, 1 

 to 2.5 cm wide, acuminate to obtuse, base usually rather abruptly 

 decurrent-acuminate, the cystoliths minute, numerous on both 

 surfaces ; lateral nerves about 5, slender, distinct ; petioles about 

 1 cm long. Inflorescence, terminal, racemose, or a narrow, de- 

 pauperate panicle, up to 10 cm in length, pubescent, the flowers 

 white, rather scattered, solitary, or the lower ones few and on 

 very short branches. Pedicels 1 to 2 mm long, pubescent, the 

 bracts very small, oblong, less than 1 mm long. Calyx cleft 

 nearly or quite to the base into five, linear, acuminate, 3 to 4 

 mm long, equal segments, rather minutely pubescent. Corolla- 

 tube about 1.5 cm long, slender, cylindric, the lobes 5, spreading, 

 two somewhat larger than the other three, elliptic, rounded, 4 

 to 5.5 mm wide, 7 to 8 mm long. Stamens 2; anthers slightly 

 exserted, 2-celled, cells contiguous, rounded, base acute, the pollen 

 typical "spangenpollen." Capsules 1 to 1.4 cm long. Seeds 4, 

 flattened, foveolate, rounded, nearly 3 mm long. 



Amboina, Halong, on limestone rocks, Batoe merah, and near the town 

 of Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1792 (type) August and September, 1913, altitude 

 5 to 50 meters. The same form is represented by Merrill 53U6 from Palmas 

 Island, southeast of Mindanao, a small islet belonging to the Dutch East 

 Indies, not to the Philippines. 



A species well characterized by its small size, sufFrutescent basal parts, 

 and slightly pubescent inflorescences which are terminal, racemose or 

 depauperate-paniculate, and its comparatively small leaves. 



THUNBERGIA Retzius 



THUNBERGIA GRANDIFLORA Eoxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 45, Fl. Ind. ed. 



2, 3 (1832) 34, Spreng. Syst. 2 (1825) 828. 



Flemingia grandiflora Roxb. ex Rottl. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. 

 4 (1803) 202. 



Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1786, September 16, 1913, in hedges, town of 

 Amboina, September 16, 1913. 



A native of India, now widely cultivated in various tropical countries. 



THUNBERGIA ALATA Bojer in Hook. Exot. Fl. (1823-27) t. 177. 



Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1788, July 22, 1913, along river banks, town of 

 Amboina, locally known as bunga tikus. 



A native of tropical Africa, now widely distributed in the tropics of both 

 hemispheres. 



SANCHEZ I A Ruiz and Pavon 



SANCHE2IA NOBILIS Hook. f. in Curtis's Bot. Mag. t. 559 A. 



Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1787, July 25, 1913, along small streams in a sago 

 swamp near the town of Amboina. 



A native of South America, probably of recent introduction into Amboina 

 from Java, where it is cultivated as an ornamental plant. 



