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rotundate, acute at apex, rounded or truncate or cordate and more or 

 less decurrent at base, -5 to 2 in. long, -5 to 1-5 in. broad, mucronate- 

 dentate or -crenate, membranous, usually strigosely hairy on the 

 nerves especially beneath, sometimes nearly glabrous ; midrib slender, 

 main-nerves 4-6 pairs ; petiole "3 to '6 in. long, more or less winged by 

 the decurrent margins of the blade, strigosely hairy. Floioers single, 

 on slender pedicels about '6 to 1 in. long ; bracts minute ; pedicels 

 usually deflexed in fruit. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, ribbed, 

 ■strigose, obconical ; lobes 5 linear spreading, -1 to -2 in. long, pilose. 

 Corolla purple, "2 to -25 in. long, 2 upper lobes falcate-lanceolate, 

 3 lower connate, teeth short. Stayninal tube as long as or longer than 

 oorolla, anthers all penicillate. Ovary 2-celled, style long, stigma bifid, 

 lobes rounded, recurved, ovules many. Capsule ribbed, strigose. Seed 

 small, ellipsoid trigonous. DC. Prod. VII. 360 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 574 ; Hook. f. and Th. in Journ. Linn. Soc. II. 27 ; Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. III. 424 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 57 ; Prain Beng. Plants I. 

 '633. L. zeylanica, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey and Wall. II. 

 113 ; Kurz in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 211, not of Linn. L. 

 ■subcuncata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 574. L. succidenta and L. Heyneana, 

 Bl. Bijdr. 728. 



Penang: Bidley 7162, 10185; /. Scott. Perak: Bidley 2902; 

 Curtis 2025 ; Scortechini 309, 344 ; King's Collector 2376. Singapore: 

 Kurz. — DiSTRiB. Eastern Bengal, Burma, Ceylon, Malay Islands, 

 Southern China. 



Isotoma longijiora, Presl, is an introduced West Indian plant found in shady 

 places. Penang : Beschamps. Singapore : Hullett 29 ; Kiinstler 90. 



2. Campanum^a, Blume. 



Perennial erect or climbing herbs with tuberous roots. Leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, usually cordate. Floioers usually large, solitary, 

 peduncled, terminal or axillary on short leafless flowering branches. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, or below it, persistent, 4- to 6-partite 

 with spreading lobes. Corolla broadly campanulate, the base adherent 

 to the calyx-tube, 4- to 6-lobed ; white, greenish, or lurid-purple in 

 colour. Stamens 4-6, inserted round the base of the corolla-tube ; 

 filaments dilated ; anthers free. Ovary 4-6-celled, placentas thick, 

 many ovuled ; style cylindric, stigma 4-6-cleft with short broad lobes. 

 Fruit a berry, sub-globose or with truncate top, indehiscent. Seeds 

 very many, small, ellipsoid. — Distrib. 5-6 species, all of Eastern 

 tropical and sub-tropical and temperate Asia. 



Campanum^a celebica, Blume Bijdr. 727. An erect herb reaching 

 4 to 5 feet in height, with horizontal spreading smooth branches. 



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