Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 53 



rotundate, acute at apex, rounded or truncate or cordate and more or 

 less decurrent at base, -5 to 2 in. long, -5 to 1"5 in. broad, mucronate- 

 dentate or -crenate, membranous, usually strigosely hairy on the 

 nerves especially beneath, sometimes nearly glabrous ; midrib slender, 

 main-nerves 4-6 pairs ; petiole -3 to -6 in. long, more or less winged by 

 the decurrent margins of the blade, strigosely hairy. Flowers single, 

 on slender pedicels about "6 to 1 in. long ; bracts minute ; pedicels 

 usually deflexed in fruit. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, ribbed, 

 strigose, obconical ; lobes 5 linear spreading, -1 to -2 in. long, pilose. 

 Corolla purple, "2 to '25 in. long, 2 upper lobes falcate-lanceolate, 



3 lower connate, teeth short. Staminal tube as long as or longer than 

 corolla, anthers all penicillate. Ovary 2-celled, style long, stigma bifid, 

 lobes rounded, recurved, ovules many. Capsule ribbed, strigose. Seed 

 «mall, ellipsoid trigonous. DC. Prod. VII. 360 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 ■574 ; Hook. f. and Th. in Journ. Linn. Soc. II. 27 ; Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. III. 424 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 57 ; Prain Beng. Plants I. 

 '633. L. zeylanica, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey and Wall. II. 

 113 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 211, not of Linn. L. 

 ■subcuneata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 574. L. succtdenta and L. Heyneana, 

 Bl. Bijdr. 728. 



Penang: Bidley 7162, 10185; J. Scott. Peeak: Bidley 2902; 

 Curtis 2025 ; Scortechini 309, 344 ; King's Collector 2376. Singapore : 

 Kurz. — DiSTEiB. Eastern Bengal, Burma, Ceylon, Malay Islands, 

 Southern China. 



Isotoma longiflora, Presl, is an introduced West Indian plant found in shady- 

 places. Penang : Deschamps. Singapore : Hullett 29 ; Kunstler 90. 



2. Campanum.S!A, Blume. 



Perennial erect or climbing herbs with tuberous roots. Leaves 

 ■opposite, petiolate, usually cordate. Floioers usually large, solitary, 

 j)eduncled, terminal or axillary on short leafless flowering branches. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, or below it, persistent, 4- to 6-partite 

 with spreading lobes. Corolla broadly campanulate, the base adherent 

 to the calyx-tube, 4- to 6-lobed ; white, greenish, or lurid-purple in 

 colour. Stamens 4-6, inserted round the base of the corolla-tube ; 

 filaments dilated ; anthers free. Ovary 4-6-celled, placentas thick, 

 many ovuled ; style cylindric, stigma 4-6-cleft with short broad lobes. 

 Fruit a berry, sub-globose or with truncate top, indehiscent. Seeds 

 very many, small, ellipsoid.— Distrib. 5-6 species, all of Eastern 

 tropical and sub-tropical and temperate Asia. 



Campanumjea celebica, Blume Bijdr. 727. An erect herb reaching 



4 to 5 feet in height, with horizontal spreading smooth branches. 



