Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 95 



base of tlie narrowly-lanceolate spreading lobes. Stamens exserted from 

 the throat of the corolla but shorter than its lobes. Anthers oblong, the 

 filaments rather long. Style about as long as the filaments ; stigma 

 large, thick, transversely oblong. Capsule slightly more than '1 in. long, 

 oblong, crowned by the large spreading calyx-lobes, smooth, membran- 

 ous, dehiscent, each cell centaining a single oblong blunt black seed. 

 DO. Prod. IV. 555; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 331 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 III. 201. S. longicaulis, Br. in Wall. Cat. 826. 



Malacca : Or{ffi,fh. Singapore : Ridley 5897, 8954. Pbrak : Scor- 

 techini 12, 64, 78, 602. — Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



3. Spermacoce stricta, Linn. fil. Suppl. 120. Herbaceous, erect, 

 little-branched, pale-olivaceous when dry; branches as thick as a crow- 

 quill, 4-angled and with 2 broad deep grooves, minutely hispid or 

 sub-glabrous. Leaves sessile, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute, the 

 base narrowed to the stipule ; upper surface shining, glabrous or 

 minutely hispid ; the lower paler, dull, the midrib prominent and 

 sometimes minutely hispid, neives obsolete on both surfaces ; length 

 •75 to 1*25 in. Stipules conjoined to form a deep campanulate cup, 

 the mouth acuminate or truncate but always with 6 to 8 long spread- 

 ing bristles. Flowers "3 in. long, in clustei-s of 2 or 3, axillary, sessile 

 subtended by a few pectinate bi-acteolates. Galyx canipanulate, his- 

 pid outside, the mouth with 4 deep, lanceolate, acuminate, spreading 

 lobes. Corolla much exserted beyond the calyx, tubular, with 4 deej), 

 belong, sub-erect lobes inflexed and sometimes hispid at the apex. 

 Stamens slightly exserted ; anthers sagittate, on long filaments. Stigma 

 large, 2-lobed, as long as the stamens ; style long filiform. Capsule 

 oblong-obovoid, smooth, membranous, 2-celled, dehiscent, with a single 

 black oblong seed in each cell. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 83 ; Fl. Tnd, I. 

 370; DC. Prod. IV. 554; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1877 IT. 137. 

 S. lasiocarpa Br. in Wall. Cat. 832. S. pusilla, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 ed. Carey & Wall. I. 379 ; Cat. 823 ; Don. Prod. 134. 8. filina, Gard- 

 neri and angustifolia, Wall. Cat. 830, 834, 835. S. triandra, Ham. in 

 Don. Prodr. 134. Bigelovia stricta, Blume Bijdr. 945. B. lasiocarpa. 

 Boxhurghiana & Kleinii, W. & A. Prod. 437. B. myriantha, Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 334. Borreria pusilla, DC, Prod. I.e. 543. 



Penang : Curtis 1936. Malacca: Goodenough I4i90. Pahang: Bid- 

 ley 1624. — Distrib. British India. 



46. Paederia, Linn. 



Twining, slender, foetid shrubs, glabrous or pubescent; the branch- 

 es thin. Leaves opposite, rarely in whorls of three, membranous 



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