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"XSa. Leptonychia glauka, Furca. 



Cummou round Teloni. A common hill junjj-le tree, all over the 

 Peninsula, and occurring also in Burmah and the Malay 

 islands. 



Tl LI ACETIC. 



24. Triumfetta pilosa, lioth 



Abundant along the track to Jor, not at all a common plant as 

 would appear from King in the " Materials." 



GEGANIACE.-E. 



25. Impatiens oncidioides, Kidl., Kew Bull., 1909, 11. 



A succulent herb about 2-4 feet tall. Stem fuscous brown 

 succulent, } inch through, ascending. Leaves plain green, 

 ovate lanceolate to lanceolate acuminate, acute, narrowed 

 to the basi^, margin crenulate with short processes in the 

 crenulatious, fleshy (thin and flaccid when dry), dark green 

 above, paler beneath, I-0-6 inches long, 1-2 inches wide; nerves 

 (primary) about 18 pairs, (secondary) hardly less distinct ; 

 petiole 1-1^ inch long. Racemes subtermiual, with two 

 flowers or more. Bracts, lanceolate, acuminate, | inch long, 

 green. Pedicels 1 inch long. Flowers, opening singly or 

 occasionally two together, large and showy, bright yellow. 

 Sepals three, two laterals, ovate, cuspidate, ^\, inch long, pale 

 green keeled, posterior ovate, yellow, darker above, ^ inch 

 long, 1 inch wide ; spur slender, \\ inch long. Petals, 

 anterior, hooded, ovate, yellow, Avitli a green rounded keel, 

 \ inch long ; laterals, with a short narrow base limb, three, 

 lobed on the outer margin, upper lobe linear, oblong, 

 horizontal, obtuse, tip rounded, middle large but no longer, 

 semi-circular, terminal lobe short, oblong, obtuse, inner 

 margin straight, the two petals together forming a lip 1^ 

 inch across — all pure chrome yellow. In one form the upper 

 lobes have Indian red lines. Capsule fusiform gTeen, nearly 

 1 inch long, seeds orbicular flat. 



Telom ; abundant, growing in masses in wet deep mud, sporadi- 

 cally along banks and on rotting trees in dark shady spots. 



This beautiful balsam has flowers resembling in form and 

 colour those of some Oncidimn, hence its name. It shows 

 some amount of variation in the form of the two large 

 petals, the lobes being often narrower, and some forms are 

 conspicuous from having Indian red streaks on the upper 

 lobes. 



2(.;. I. SARCANTHA, Hook. fil. MS8. 



A herb about 4-0 inches tall, occasionally 12 inche.s. Leaves 

 numerous, opposite lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, 3-4 

 inches long, \.^ inch wido, upper surface dark green, sprinkled 

 with very shurt unicellnlar hairs, more prominent on the 



