138 ; MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON PLANTS 
Plant about a span high or less. Leaves 7-13 x 4-10 mm., fairly evenly distributed 
up the stem, drying brownish; petioles at most 3 mm. long, usually less. Spicasters 
eventually up to 10 cm. in length (including the peduncle), though sometimes shorter, 
slender, each bearing several verticillasters ; bracts exceedingly small, subulate, not 
exceeding 1 mm. in length; pedicels mostly 4-5 mm. long, in the flowering stage 
ascending or patent. Calyx in flower slightly oblique at the base, 2-5 mm. long; upper 
lobe 1:5 mm. long and as much across, the remaining lobes a trifle shorter, in fruit 
slightly exceeding 5 mm. in length, upper lobe 2x3 mm.; lateral lobes 2:25 x ‘75 mm., 
fruit lobes a trifle longer than the lateral, 1‘5 mm. wide, incurved. Tube of corolla 
55 mm. long, 1°5 mm. wide; lower lip barely 4 mm. long; side lobes of upper lip 
1:5x1mm.; back lobes 1:5x 1:5 mm. Filaments exserted nearly 5 mm. Style 6 mm. 
long, glabrous. 
Differs from P. parviflorus, Willd. chiefly in foliage and the minute bracts. 
Var. MAJOR, S. Moore, var. nov. 
Folia majora, circa 2x 1:5-1:8 em.; petioli 7-15 mm. longi. Bractee ovate, obtuse, 
dorso piloso-pubescentes, usque ad 4 mm. long:e, diutule persistentes. 
Camps VIII to IX, 4900 to 5500 ft. 
Identical in flowers with the type. 
COLEUS SCUTELLARIOIDES, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 16. 
Camps III to VI 4, 2500 to 3900 ft. 
Distrib. Indian Archipelago, Australia, Polynesia. 
SCUTELLARIA LUZONICA, Rolfe, in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xxi. (1884) 315. 
Camps IX to XI, 5500 to 8300 ft. 
Distrib. Philippine Islands. 
APETALZ. 
(By H. N. Roter.) 
NYCTAGINEX. 
PISONIA LONGIROSTRIS, Teysm. & Binn. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. (1863) 40. 
Canoe Camp, 150 ft.; Camp I, 700 ft. 
Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 
Pisonia MUELLERIANA, Warb. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xiii. (1891) 304. 
Canoe Camp, 150 ft. ** Flowers pale greenish.” 
Distrib. Endemic in New Guinea. 
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