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half as long as the tube, with 4 broad oblong acute lobes, thickened at 

 the apex. Anthers elliptic, on very short filaments inserted at the base 

 of tlie tube. Fruit broadly ovoid, crowned by the cup-like remains of 

 the calyx, glossy orange-red when ripe, about "2 in. long. Blnme Bijdr. 

 956 : DC. Prod. IV. 451 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, II. 8 ; Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 194; Beccari Malesia II. t. XLVII. f. 1 to 11 ; XLVIII. f. 

 1 to 8. H. montanum, Blume and DC. 11. cc. Lasiostoma formicarium, 

 Spreng. Syst. I. 423 ; Wall. Oat. 9055. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2975; Maingay (K.D.) 864. Penang : 

 Curtis 2164. Perak : Scortechini 934 ; Wray 2673 ; King's Collector 

 4994. JoHORE : Ridley 335, 2840. Singapore : Ridley 1617. — Distrib. 

 Cochin-Chiua, Sumatra, Borneo. 



49. Geophila, Don. 



Small, slender, usually perennial, creeping herbs, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent, the stems rooting. Leaves orbicular, reniform, ovate, often cordate, 

 on long petioles. Stipules ovate, entire. Flowers small, solitary and 

 subsessile or in pedunculate, bracteate, axillary or tei'minal umbels. 

 Calyx-tuhe obovoid ; its segments from 5 to 7, slender, persistent, spread- 

 ing or reflexed. Corolla rather long, funnel-shaped, the tliroat hairy ; 

 lobes 4 to 7, valvate in bud. Stamens equal in number to the lobes. 

 Anthers dorsifixed, linear; filaments thin. Ovary 2-celled ; style slen- 

 der, with 2 long or short branches: ovules erect, one in each cell. 

 ^/Mi^ fleshy, with two plano-convex pyrenes. Seeds plano-convex, with- 

 out any ventral groove; embryo minute, basal ; radicle inferior. — Distbib. 

 about 16 species, all tropical. 



Leaves with broad, usually cordate bases :— 

 Flowers solitary, axillary : — 



Leaves glabrous, 5 in. long 

 Leaves hairy, '6 to 1 in. long ... 

 Peduncles with 1 to 3 flowers ; leaves reniform to ovate- 

 cordate, glabrous, '5 to 175 in. in lengtli and breadth 

 Peduncles with 6 to 9 flowers in an umbel ; leaves glab- 

 rous, r75 to 3 in. long 

 Leaves with narrow bases never cordate, sparsely and mi- 

 nutely adpressed hairy, 1 to 15 in. long, peduncles few- 

 flowered 



1. Geophila humifusa, King & Gamble, n. sp. Stems very 

 slender, glabrous, rooting at the iiodes, often several feet long. Leaves 

 thickly membranous, glabrous, in distant pairs, ovate-cordate, acute, the 

 edges undulate when dry, '4 in. long and "25 in. broad, the petiole as 

 long as the blade, main-nerves about 3 pairs, one pair basal ; stipules 



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