40 Matetialsfor a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



hairs ; racliis slender ; commoQ peduncle very short to -7 in. long, 

 slender, with a pair of spathulate-lanceolate, petioled leaflets at the point 

 of branching ; special peduncles very short ; pedicels very slender, up 

 to '15 in. long. Calyx campanulate-oblong, about -14 in. long, very 

 shao-gy ; teeth triangular-lanceolate, up to '06 in. long. Petals oblong, 

 acute, suberect, 'S-SS in. long ; stigma punctiform. Fruit semiglobose- 

 turbinate, muricate, about -2 in. long and wide. 



Perak ; Scortechini ! 



Var. laxipilosa, Stapf and King. All parts loosely hairy with the 

 hairs as in the type. Leaves up to 6 in. by 3-5 in., rather thinner. 

 Common and special peduncles short or up to 3 in. long (together). 



Pekak; Ipoh, Kinta, Curtis 3154 ! Pulau Batong, Curtis I 



33. SoNERiLA PARADOXA, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 321. 

 A low, creeping herb, softly hirsute or shaggy all over ; hairs dense and 



"sliort- small icttvco xv.lc,.».v.^cvuv> v,,.«.v. ^^ ^^..x^^^^li, uvyi-viauo, yju- ^ lu. in 

 diam. on very slender petioles ('OS-'G in. long). Cymes terminal and 

 from the upper axils, solitary with a pair of small petioled leaflets at 

 the middle of the peduncle, or in umbels of 2-4, ebracteate or inconspi- 

 'louslv bracteate, few- to many-flowered, dense; common peduncle 

 lender usually 1-2 in. long ; special peduncles much shorter ; rhachis 



shao-o-y; bracts linear to filiform, ciliate, short, usually hidden 

 amonc^ the hairs of the rhachis or suppressed ; pedicels -OS-l in. long, 

 very slender. Calyx campanulate-oblong, about -15 in. long, shaggy ; 

 teeth short, triangular. Petals oblong, acute, suberect, over "25 in. long, 

 white. Anthers oblong, obtuse, '1 in. long. Style over "3 in. long; 

 sticrma punctiform. Fruit semiglobose- turbinate, •12--15 in. long, '18 in. 

 wide muricate- tuberculate. S. mohiccana, Jack. Misc. I, 8 ; Wall. Cat. 

 4O89'; Bean. PI. Jav. Kar. 215, (p.p.) ; Blume, Mus. I, 10 (p.p.) ; 

 Miq. Vl. Ind. Bat. I, 562 (p.p.) ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. PL Brit. 

 Ind. II, 537 (P-P-) y Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 77 ; Cogn. in 

 TfC. MonogT. VIT, 508 (p.p.) ; Stapf in Ann. Bot. VI, 3U, 312 (p.p.) ; 

 and Boxb. Plor. Ind. I, 178 ? 



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