1903.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 173 



petioles "35 to 1'2 iD. ; stipules (dried specimens) reduced to rugulose 

 transverse bands. Cymes terminal, solitary, pedunculate, in flower much 

 shorter than, but in fruit half as long as, the leaves or even more; the 

 branches divaricate, slender, many-flowered, in fruit of ten as much as 25 

 in. long. Floivers '35 in. long, secund, on short puberulous pedicels, very- 

 narrow in bud. Calyx cylindric, "05 in. long ; its teeth broadly triangu- 

 lar, sub-acute, 1-nerved. Corolla *3 in. long, narrowly cylindric; the 

 mouth with 5 short blunt reflexed teeth. Anthers 5, linear, cordate at 

 the base. Capsules narrowly rhomboid, the upper edge marginate, glab- 

 rous, "3 in. across. Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 84 as a doubtful species. 



Perak: Scortechini 1313; Wray 3731,4050; King's Collector 2187, 

 7119,5853,7186,7119; Curtis.— Distrib. Burma. 



3. Ophiorhiza fasciculata, Don Prod. PI. Nep. 136. Stem 10 to 

 14 in. high, erect, little-branclied, woody, and nearly as thick as a goose- 

 quill below, puberulous. Leaves of a pair very unequal in size, mem- 

 branous, narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sub-acute, the base cuneate; 

 upper surface very dark olivaceous when dry, glabrous, the nerves and 

 midrib pale and prominent ; lower surface pale yellowish- brown, puber- 

 ulous on the midrib and 9 to 11 pairs of boldly curved spreading dark- 

 coloured main-nerves ; the reticulations also puberulous, their interspaces 

 glabrous; length of the larger leaves 5 or 6 in.; breadth 1*5 to 2 

 in. ; the smaller leaves of the pairs '8 to 2*5 in. long and "85 to 1-5 in. 

 broad ; petioles "2 to '8 in. long. Stipules *15 in. long, subulate with 

 dilated bases. Cymes usually solitary, but sometimes 2 or 3 together, 

 terminal, pedunculate, usually less than half as long as the leaves even 

 when in fruit, puberulous everywhere, ebracteate ; branches shorter 

 than the peduncles. Flowers small (rather less than *25 in. long), on 

 short puberulous pedicels. Calyx narrowly campanulate, densely puberu- 

 lous, boldly ribbed ; the teeth shorter than the tube, triangular, acute, 

 erect. Corolla '2 in. long, cylindric, inflated in the lower part and 

 expanded at the mouth; the 5 lobes short, blunt. Anthers narrowly 

 linear, on short filaments. Capsules obreniform, the sinus shallow, 

 glabrous, *25 in. across. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 83. O. bracteolata, 

 R. Br. in. Wall. Cat. 6228. 



Perak : King's Collector 2205; Wray 1989. — Distrib. Himalaya 

 and Khasia. 



4. Ophiorhiza hispidula, Wall. Cat. 6234. Erect, little-branched, 

 slender, pubescent, thicker than a crow-quill. Leaves of the pair un- 

 equal, membranous, ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, cuneate (sometimes 

 abruptly so) at the base; upper surface (when dry) olivaceous, glabrous, 

 the midrib prominent but the nerves rather obscure ; lower surface pale 

 olivaceous, otherwise sub-glabrous but the bold midrib and 6 or 7 pairs 



