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wide; petiole ' iuch luwj;, sliui'lly rovti;lil_v Imiry like the stem. 

 Heads elongate, one or two together terminal on short or 

 long 1 inch peduucdes, 2 to neai-ly 3 inches long, i 

 inch through. Bracts linear or obloug-liuear blunt, bases 

 densely rufous hairy, xipper ones aliout .V inch long. 

 Sepals linear obtuse, i inch long, with long red hairs. Corolla 

 I inch long, curved, dilated rather suddenly at the lobes, 

 pubescent light, blue. Capsule dilated upwards from a 

 narrow base, ^ inch long. Seeds four. 

 Teluni and Ulu Bataug Padaug. 



'244. S. ALBOSTRIATA, /(. S^J. 



A weak herb about 1 foot tall, ei'ect, little branched with 

 short brownish hair, soon glabrescent below. Leaves sub- 

 ecjual or often unequal ovate or acuminate, base cuneate, 

 margins crenulate ; nerves five to seven pairs, above gla- 

 brous, dark green, with white bars along the veins, beneath 

 dark red, wdth scurfy puljescent veins ; petiole 1 inch long, 

 scurfy, hairy. Heads three or four terminal, Avith one in 

 each axil of the uppermost pair of leaves or only terminal 

 peduncled. Peduncles hairy, I to ueai-ly ^ inch long. Calyx, 

 sepals linear, acuminate, hairy. Corolla blue, 1 inch long, 

 tube at l)ase narrow, then suddenly broadened and ciu'ved, 

 lobes ;; inch long, roiuided ; tube haii'y. limb glaljrous, 

 stamens four. 



Abundant at Telom and conspicuous from its bcautifidly- 

 marked foliage. 



245. S. SCABRIDUS, II. t<p. 



Somewhat robust, stems closely shortly Ijrown hairy, internodes 

 3 inches long. Leaves very luiequal, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 narrowed to the winged petiole, margins crenulate ; nerves 

 six pairs, ])rominent above, texture coriaceo-ehartaceous, above 

 glabrous scabrid, beneath smooth paler, midrib closely 

 pubescent, hairy ; largest leaves 6 inches long l)y 2 inches 

 wide, smaller one about half as large. Ca]>itulum terminal, 

 sessile, globose, about 1 inch long. Bracts ovate to 

 orbicular, elliptic, apex rounded, thickly dotted with raphides. 

 Flowers white. Corolla over 1^ inch long, tvdje narrow at the 

 base, dilated upwards, 1 inch across, lobes rounded, glabrous ; 

 stamens foiu\ 



Clunong Berumban. I also ol)tained this plant at the Semaugko 

 Pass. 



246, S. (§ Nudatep) pedicellata, n. ^ji. 



Leaves ovate acuminate, base cuneate, margins serrate, glabrous, 

 very unequal : nerves inconspicuous on both siu-faces, six 

 to seven pairs, bohlly curved and meeting in iutra-marginal 



