138 Plora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



the base, hairy on the back; filaments short, subulate. Ovary 2- to 3- 

 celled, with many ascending ovules, the placentas on the septum. Style 

 short; stigma exserted, long-fusiform, or quadrangular. Capsule 2-3- 

 celled, sub-globose, loculicidally dehiscing by 2 or 3 valves. Seeds 

 small, numerous, peltate, imbricate, winged ; embryo straight, in fleshy 

 albumen. — Disteib. Species all Malayan. 



Corolla-tube nearly as long as the lobes, its throat glabrous ; 



calyx-tnbe tinder '05 in. in diam. ... ... ... 1. C.flavescens. 



Corolla-tube much shorter than the lobes, its throat densely 



woolly J calyx-tube more than '15 in. diam. ... ... 2. C. Ch'iffithii. 



1. CoPTOSAPELTA FLAVESCENS, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 113. 

 Young branches, panicles and under surfaces of the leaves covered with 

 soft, minute, partly deciduous hair. Leaves elliptic or ovate, minutely 

 apiculate, the base rounded, somewhat narrowed; upper surface 

 glabrous and shining; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curving upwards, 

 slightly prominent on the lower surface ; length 25 to 4 in. ; breadth 

 15 to 2'5 in.; petiole "2 to "3 in., pubescent. Stipules very acuminate, 

 •15 in. long. Flowers about 1 in. long (of wliich the calyx forms only 

 •15 in.) OaZj/a; under '05 in. in diam., tubular, 5-riclged, pilose; the 5 

 teeth small, ei'ecfc, sub-glabrous. Corolla-tube '3 in. long, narrow; the 

 lobes of the limb oblong, blunt, '^ in. long, reflexed, glabrous or sub- 

 glabrous. Anthers and stigma nearly as long as the corolla-lobes. 

 Stigma cylindric-f usiform, puberulous. Capsule broadly obovoid, glabrous, 

 •3 or "4 in. in. diam. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 35. Stylocoryne macro' 

 phylla, Wall. Cat. 8405 (excl. syn.) Wehera macrophylla, Roxb. 



Penang: Porter, Griffith (K.D.) 2788. Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 

 90S. Perak: Wray 1801, 2521, 4276; King's Collector 4651, 7938, 

 10384, 10393, 10853. Pahang : Bidley 2192.— Disteib. Burma ; Malay 

 Archipelago. 



2. Coptosapelta Grippithii, Hook. fil. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1089: 

 Fl. Br. Ind. HI. 35. Leaves as in C.flavescens ; but with only 3 pairs of 

 nerves and the under surface paler and rather more hairy ; also the 

 panicles with fewer flowers. Flowers only -85 in. long, their buds nearly 

 •J5 in. in diam. Calyx rather more than '2 in. long and -15 in. in diam., 

 the tube densely tomentose : the limb scantily hairy, cylindric, nearly as 

 long as the tube ; its 5 or 6 teeth short, broad, erect. Corolla-tuhe '25 

 in. long and half as much wide, the throat densely woolly, the lobes of 

 the limb linear-oblong, obtuse, reflexed, twice as long as the tube, rusty 

 adpressed-pubescent on the lower, glabrous or sub-glabrous on the upper 

 surface. 



Malacca and Singapore: Griffith (K.D.) 2789; Maingay (K.D.) 

 907. Perak : Scortechini 1983; Wray 1827 ; King's Collector 4366, 7938. 

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