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and compact, very many-flowered, distinctly bracteate, at length 1^2.5 

 in, long, peduncle '6-1 "2 in. long ; bracts spatliulate or obovate, very 

 obtuse, up to '2 in. long, persistent; pedicels hardly any. Calyx short, 

 obconioal'Oblong, "IS-'IG in. lorig; teeth obscure, very obtuse. Petals 

 elliptic, obtuse, pink, -15 in. long. Stamens 6, 3 slightly curved, purple, 

 •15 in. long, 3 straight or almost so, yellow, •12-"15 in. long. Fruit 

 subsessile, turbinate, •19--23 in. long ; valves '19 in. bi-oad. Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 565 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 77; 0. B. 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Inch II, 540. S. ohliqua, Cogn. in DO. 

 Monogr. VII, 515; and Stapf in Ann. Bot. VI, 310 (in part), not of 

 Korth. 



Perak; Scortechini! Ipob, O^^rh'.-? 3158 ! Changkal Serdang, Wray 

 783 ! Larut, Scortechini 54/a ! Groping, Ktmstler 787 ! Tapa, Wray 1308. 

 Malacca ; Griffith 2302 ! 2294 ! Maingay 1223 ! (782, Kew Distr. partly), 

 Cuming 2349 ! Lohh 183 ! in dense forest between Jassing and Ayer 

 Bombon, Maingay 1425! (782, Kew Distrib. partly). Malacca; Batang, 

 Hohnherg 876 ! Ulu G-ujab, Harvey ! (dwarf specimens). Singapore ; 

 Maingay S09S\ (782, Kew Distrib. partly); Bukit Timah, H^iZ^e^ 893 I 

 Pahang ; Tiih2iB, Ridley ! (dwarf specimens). Distrib. Sumatra to 

 Borneo. 



24. SoNERiLA integripolia, Stapf in Ann. of Bot. VI, 312. An erect 

 or ascending, simple or branched herb, •5-l"3 ft. high, rufously strigose 

 on the stem, the petioles, the nerves on the underside of the leaves and 

 the inflorescence, including the calyx, but exclusive of the bracts, hairs 

 of the leaves very tightly adpressed, like those of the inflorescence very 

 short. Stem rather robust, often swollen at the nodes, subflexuous, 

 almost woody below. Leaves very dissimilar, the larger of a pair asym- 

 metrical, rarely symmetrical, usually obliquely oblong-lanceolate to 

 obovate- oblong, distinctly (sometimes long) acuminate, minutely cor- 

 date or acute at the base, entire, sometimes with slightly wavy margins, 

 somewhat fleshy, soft, quite glabrous above, dark- or yellowish-green, 

 3-5 in. by 1-1 "5 in., sub-5-nerved from near the base with the lower- 

 most pair of nerves faint, and the uppermost (in the narrow half) 

 •2-l"2 in. above the base, with fine oblique transverse veins ; small 

 leaves minute, ovate to rotundate, often cordate, sessile or shortly 

 petioled. Cymes terminal and apparently leaf -opposed, peduncled, 

 bracteate, few- to many-flowered, very dense, up to 1 in. long, peduncles 

 very short to '5 in. long; rhachis often flexuous when long; bracts 

 oblong to linear-lanceolate, fleshy, up to '12 in. long, often much 

 smaller, sometimes extremely numerous and crowded ; pedicels very 

 short or 0. Calyx oblong-campanulate, nearly 1 in. long ; teeth tri- 

 angular, up to '04 in. long, acute. Petals oblong, acute, *15 in. long^ 

 white to pink. Anthers oblong, obtuse, almost "1 in. long. StyU *2 ia.. 



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