154 MESSRS. BAKER, MOORE, RENDLE, RIDLEY AND WERNHAM 



glabra subtus secus nervos appresse pubescentia puberulave necnon 

 microsc >pice pustulato-cystolithigera. Flore* mediocres subsessiles. 

 Bracteae lineares ufci inflorescentiae axis calyceoque dense glanduloso- 

 pubescentes. Calycis segmenta acutiuscula. Corollde calycem facile 

 Biiperantis tubus extus puberulus. Stamina breviter exserta, 

 ovarium oblongo-ovoideum fere glabrum. Stylus elongatus basi 

 pilosulus. ' 



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Leaves 2-3.5 x .1.3-1.8 cm., when dry, dark above, greyish 

 green below ; petioles up to 5 mm. long, minutely pubescent. Axis of 

 the inflorescence reaching nearly 2 cm. in length, more often about 

 1-1.5 cm., sometimes only 5 mm. long. Bracts about 2 mm. long. 

 Bracteoles not seen. Calyx with segments 6 x .5 mm. Corolla 17 mm. 

 long in the tube, at the base 2.5 mm. wide, this soon reduced to 

 1.25 mm. hence gradually enlarged to 5 mm. at the throat ; upper lip 

 7 mm. wide at the base, reduced to 1 mm. some distance below the 

 top; lobes of lower lip apparently reflexed, or at least patent, 

 7 x .5 mm. Filaments flattened, glabrous, 9 mm. long; anthers with 

 oblong, obtuse, 2.5 mm. long, cells. Disk fleshy, .65 mm. high. Ovary 

 2.5 mm., style 2 cm. long. 



This plant has given much trouble, as, while evidently closely 

 allied to several genera, it cannot be included in one of them without 

 enlarging already reognisei boundaries. It was at first thought to 

 be referable to Clinaeanthus, but the two-celled anthers exclude it ', 

 then it appeared to fit in with Graptophyllum ; for although the 

 inflorescence is not that of the well-known G. pictum Griff. (G. 

 liortense Nees), the Australian G. Earlii F. Muell. has a very similar 

 arrangement of its flowers. But Graptophyllum has, besides two 

 stamens, a couple of staminodes, organs there is no sign of in the plant 

 under notice, though it is undoubtedly its affinity. In the absence of 

 staminodes it agrees with the Papuan Calycacanthus, but this genus 

 has quite a different corolla. 



172. Peristrophe fera var. intermedia Clarke. 



Daban, 650 ft. 



Distrib. Pegu, Tenasserim. 



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