122 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



perfect (or one imperfect) filaments glabrous. Ovary 2 colled. Cells 

 one ovulod. Capsule globose or orbicular. Seeds hemispheric. 



Species 12. 8 African, 3 American and one Asiatic. 



1. Fl. SCAN DENS, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 193. Creeping and ascond- 

 ing. Stems 6-12 inches or more, glabrous. Leaves elliptic lanceolate or 

 linear, lanceolate acute 4-3 inches long, margins ciliate. Panicle large 

 and dense 1 to 3 inches long terminal viscid hairy, branches erect, 

 short, flowers small scattered on a pink rachis. Bracts leaf-like. 

 Sepals ovate green viscid pubescent on the back. Petals a little larger 

 blue, pink or white. Stamens 6 perfect. Capsule globose shorter 

 than the sepals. Seeds hemispheric pink. Clarke Monogr. 265, Hook, 

 hi. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 390. F. paniculata Hassk. PI. Jungh. 157, and 

 F. Hamiltoni, undulata, pctiolata and Mcycniana Hassk. Commel. Ind. 

 166, 167. Dithyrocarpus paniculatus Kunth. Enum. IV. 70, Clarke 

 Comm. and Cyrt. Beng. 34, D. Mcycnianus and rufus Kunth. I.e. 7879. 

 D. pctiolatus Bothii, and undulatus Wight Ic. t. 2079, 2080. Trades- 

 cant ia paniculata Roxb. Cor. PI. II. t. 109. Commelyna cymosa and 

 densijlora Bl. Enum. I. 4. 



Singapore : Tanglin, etc., (Ridley) ; Johor : Tanjong Kupang (Ridley). 

 Bukit Muar (Feilding); Malacca: Brisu Machap ; Negri Sembilan : 

 Seremban (Ridley 10041); Selangor: Klang ; Perak : Padang Rongas, 

 Thaiping ; Penang Waterfall. Distrib. India, Malaya, China and 

 Australia. 



Common in muddy places by streams. Native names " Rumput 

 Kumpai Tikus," " Rumput Tapak Eti." 



6. Fc-RRESTIA, Lesson. 



Herbs usually stout creeping and asconding. Leaves broad 

 lanceolate petioled, with tubular usually hairy sheaths. Cymes axill- 

 ary short, often densely capitate rarely lax. Bracts ovate. Flowofs 

 small white. Sepals 3 boat-shaped. Petals lanceolate or obovato. 

 SUmons 6, hlaments contort, bearded at the top. Ovary 3 celled, colls 

 2 ovuled or sometimes 1 ovuled. Capsule oblong trigonous ofton pink. 

 Seeds 1 or 2, cylindric or reniform. 



Species 6. India, Malay, Formosa. 



Stem slender \ inch through 

 Stems stout half an inch through. 



Heads small compact subglabrous ••■ 

 Hoads lax much branched 

 Iloads dense softly hairy. 



Leaves hairy on both surfaces 

 Lcavos glabrous above bullato 

 Heads donsoly covered with spiny hairs 



