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Galyx subcampanulate-oblongf, •18-'2 in. long ; teeth broad, triangular. 

 Petals elliptic, shortly acuminate, 'S-'^ in. long, deep- to blueish-pink. 

 Anthei's acuminate, tips sometimes very fine and curved, •2-'3 in. long. 

 Style filiform, 'SS-^S in. long; stigma minutely capitate. Fruit 

 trigonous, truncate-obovoid, •2-'25 in> loiig, smooth, often fi;nely puber- 

 ulous ; valves 'IS-* 16 in. broad. 



Perak; Scortechini 136! 300-600 ft., King's Coll 10055! Larufc, 

 dense jungle, 500-800 ft., King's Goll 5791 ! Briah plains, Wray 4i201] ! 

 Tapah, Curtis! 



The uppermost pair of leaves is often much reduced, resembling a pair of 

 bracts. One of the leaves of the preceding pair is sometimes suppressed, whilst 

 the peduncle and the petiole of the other leaf are so turned that the latter seems 

 to form the continuation of the axis ; hence the former appears to spring from a 

 long petiole. This is chiefly the case with the infloaescences which terminate 

 branches. 



9. SoNERiLA PALLIDA, Stapf and King. An ascending, branched 

 or unbranched herb, 6-12 in. high, hirsute all over, but chiefly on the 

 stems and petioles, hairs pale reddish when dry, those of the inflores- 

 cence short, stiff and spreading. Stem decumbent at the base, rooting 

 in the lower part, quadrangular. Leaves of a pair similar in shape, but 

 usually rather unequal in size, oblong to ovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 symmetrical or more or less asymmetrical and acute (rarely obtuse ) 

 at the base, minutely denticulate, membranous, light green, the larger 

 1-5-4 in. by 'S-l'S in., finely but distinctly 5-7-nerved from near the 

 base, the upper pair 'i-'Q in. from the base, petioles up to •6-'75 in. long. 

 Cymes few- to 8-flowered, short, on apparently terminal peduncles; 

 peduncles slender, 1-2 in. long ; pedicels •08--15 in. long, slender. 

 Calyx slender, trigonous, obconical-campanulate, 'IS-'S in. long ; teeth 

 distinct, triangular. Petals elliptic-oblong, apiculate, •45--5 in. long, 

 with a line of short, stiff, spreading hairs on the back, pale pink. 

 Anthers acuminate, slender, •23-24 in. long. Style filiform, stigma 

 punctiform. Fruit trigonous, obconical, •25-"3 in. long, sparingly 

 muricate, valves 15 in. broad. 



Perak ;. Gunong Inas, 5000 ft., Wray 4100 ! Malacca ; Bujong, 

 Curtis 3155! Selangore ; Bukit Hitam, 2500-3500 ft., Kelsall! Ridley 

 7320! 



10. Sonerila rudis, Stapf and King. A semidecumbent, sparingly 

 branched or unbranched herb, about 1 ft. high, densely clothed with 

 short, or often very long, fine and spreading, curved or curled hairs ou 

 the stem and petioles, with somewhat coarse, more or less adpressed 

 hairs on both sides of the leavesand gland-tipped, spreading hairs on- thQ 

 peduncles, pedicels, calyx and the midrib of the petals, hairs reddish when 

 dry. Stem often rooting in the lower part, terete or subquadrangular 



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