106 JE^lora oj the Malayan Peninsula. 



coriaceous, broadly ovate and about -5 in. long or forming small shallow, 

 cups '1 in. deep always with more or less broad discoloured edges 

 Capitultim pedunculate, from 8 to about 1*25 in. in diam. enveloped in 

 thickly membranous, veined, involucral bracts, the inner being mostly 

 orbicular- oblong but the two or three lower (external) elongate-oblong 

 and connate; the peduncle from 1 to 3 in. long, ebracteate. Flowers 

 •75 in. long. Calyx only '15 in. long, cylindric but widening slightly at 

 tlie truncate apex. Corolla '66 in. long, infundibiliform, the mouth 

 with 5 short triangular reflexed lobes. Anthers linear-oblong, their 

 apices slightly exerted. Disk large and deep. Style longer than the 

 anthers ; stigma fleshy, 2-lobed, exserted. Fruit "4 in. long, compressed, 

 deeply grooved on the edges and with a stout dorsal ridge on each side, 

 crowned by the calyx. 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3085 ; Goodenough 1979 ; Derry 609 ; Main- 

 gay (K.D.) 929; Hullett 790. Singapore : Ridley 4966. Johgee, King ; 

 Bidley 3733, 6405. Pahang : Ridley 2198. Perak : acortechini 343; 

 Ridley 2924; King's Collector 1104, 6218 ; Wray 1497, 1977. 



Sir Joseph Hooker considers 0. cuneata, Korth. to be a species, and in defer- 

 ence to his opinion we have kept it up. The two chief characters, on which he 

 relies to separate it from C. Griffithii are the pedunculate inflorescence and the 

 narrower leaves. But, in a large suite of specimens, these break down, for there 

 are specimens in which distinct peduncles are associated with the broadly oblanceo- 

 late leaves of C. Griffithii. A third and minor character used to separate the two 

 is the size of the stipules, — those of C. Griffithii being 1 in. in diam,, and those of 

 C. cuneata only '25 in. But, here again, there are numerous variations which do not 

 fit in as distinctive marks with the other two characters. I think it might be better 

 to treat C. cuneata as a variety of 0. Griffithii, referring to it (amongst the specimens 

 cited above) only Griffith 3085, Maingay 929 and Hullett 796. 



3. Cephaelis Ridleyi, King, n. sp. Like C. Griffithii, but with 

 rather narrowly elliptic leaves, tapering to each end, the main-nerves 

 faint and only 8 to 10 pairs, 8 or 9 inches in length and from 2'5 to 3 

 in. in breadth ; stipules lanceolate not coriaceous, the capitules shortly 

 trichotomous, 2*5 to 3 in. in diam. on thick peduncles 1 in. long, sub- 

 tended by two boat-shaped bracts 1'35 in. long, flowers shorter than the 

 tanceolate inner bracteoles. 



Singapore: Bidley 9515; Ya^;? 433. Penang : Curtis. Selangob: 

 Ridley 7417. 



51. Lasianthus, Jack. 



Shrubs or small trees, often foetid, with terete branches often com- 

 pressed at the nodes. Leaves distichous, more or less acuminate (often 

 very much so), the veins transverse and often distinct; stipules usually 

 broad. Flowers small, in axillary, often bracteate, sessile (rarely pedun- 



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