PuatTe 2706. 
PENTAPHRAGMA ALBIFLORUM. J/. I. W. Pearson. 
CAMPANULACEE. ‘Tribe CAMPANULE. 
P. albiflorum, 77. H. W. Pearson (sp. nov.) ; valde affinis P. aurantiaco, 
Staph a qua fois glabris majoribus, bracteis majoribus, floribus albidis 
presertim differ 
Herba sucosa, circa 1 ped. alta ; caulis crassus, fistulosus, oe 
Folia membranacea, ovata vel elliptico-ovata, 7-9 poll. longa, 3-5 poll. 
lata, basi aliquanto inzqualia, breviter attenuata, apice obtusa, mar- 
ginibus sinuato-crenato- duaitaiin glaberrima, pinnatim nervata, nervis 
lateralibus primariis utrinque 3-5, subito adscendentibus, nervulis 
circa 2 lin. longe, filamentis latis circa 1 lin. ongis. Stylus crassus, 
sulcatus, 1 lin. longus ; stigma oblongum, incrassatum, sulcatum, 3—1 
lin. longum. acca immatura fusiformis, glabrescens, circa 1 poll. 
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longa 
Borneo: Bungal, on the north-east coast, Lobb. 
This species, like the other members of this small genus, has a 
marked cyrtandraceous habit, and its true position is only apparent when 
in the Malayan region P. begoni Srp Wall., is 1 da bund ot in 
the southern portion of the Malay Peninsula. P. macrophyllum, Oliver, 
f w ea, a grandifiorum, Kurz, fro Moluccas, are 
contined to these areas respective P. aurantiacum, Stapf, and 
species are Boy no om the N.E. corner of Borneo ; the a 
from Mount Kinabalu at an elevation of 6,000 feet—H. H. W. 
PEARSON 
. 1, ealyx-lobe, seen from without ; 2, Soe of an hermaphrodite flower showing 
ihiensntia ‘and pistil; 3, anther. All enlarge 
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