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of spreading main-nerves covered with minute dense white pubescence ; 

 length '75 to 2 in. ; breadth '4 to 1 in. ; petioles 16 to '6 in. Stipules 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate from broad bases, '1 to 2 in. long. Cymes 

 terminal, solitary, pedunculate, shorter than the leaves, ebracteate, 

 everywhere shortly pubescent ; branches few, shorter than the peduncles. 

 Flowers "25 in. long, few but crowded, sessile or on short pedicels. Calyx 

 rather under '1 in. long, cylindric, with 6 narrow erect teeth shorter 

 than the tube, puberulous outside like the corolla. Corolla cylindric, 

 somewhat inflated in the lower half ; the mouth with 5 narrowly oblong 

 sub-acute erect short lobes. Capsules obreniform with a shallow sinus, 

 shortly and coarsely pubescent, '2 in. across. 0, trichocarpa^ Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. III. 78 (not of Blume). 



Pahang: EicZZe?/ 2199, 2200; Yapp bS6. 



5. Ophiorhiza Mungos, Linn. Sp. PI. 150. Glabrous in all its 

 parts, or puberulous on the stems, under surfaces of the leaves, and on 

 the inflorescence. Stems from a few inches to a foot and a half high, 

 erect, little branched, thicker than a crow-quill, woody near the base. 

 Leaves membranous, one of each pair slightly larger than the other, 

 elliptic or oblong-elliptic, the apex shortly acuminate, the base narrowed 

 and sometimes slightly oblique ; upper surface always glabrous and 

 shining, when young dark green, when dry dark-brown, the nerves in- 

 distinct; lower surface glabrous or puberulous, when fresh whitish 

 beneath and the nerves red, when dry reddish, and the nerves dark ; 

 main-nerves 7 to 15 pairs, curved, spreading ; length 2 to 5 in. ; breadth 

 •7 to 2'25 in. ; petioles "3 to 1 in. Stipules linear or subulate from broad 

 bases, '15 to '2 in. long, fugacious. Cymes terminal, much shorter than 

 the leaves, with spreading branches 1 to 3 in. in diam., ebracteolate, 

 glabrous or puberulous, the peduncles '35 to 1"5 in. long. Flowers on 

 short pedicels, sub-secund, glabrous or puberulous, "6 in. long. Calyx 

 rather more than '1 in. long, wide, cylindric with 5 acute triangular 

 dorsally ridged erect teeth. Corolla four times as long as the calyx, 

 cylindric, widening somewhat towards the 5 short broad blunt lobes of 

 the mouth. Capsule narrowly obreniform, 25 in. across, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent, prominently 5-ridged. Seeds numerous, small, brown. Gaertn. 

 Fruct. I. t. 56 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 701 ; W. & A. Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. 404; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 77. 



In all the provinces, common and variable in size and pubescence. — 

 DiSTRiB. British India; Ceylon; Sumatra; Java. 



6. Ophiorhiza Harrisiana, Heyne, var. argentea, Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 78. Stems woody below, 6 to 18 in. high, branching, terete, 

 glabrous, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves unequal, membranous, 

 narrowly oblong-lanceolate, much tapered to each end, the base narrow 



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