JOUENAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Vol. LXXIV., Paet II.— Extra Number, 1905. 



Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By Sir George 

 King, K.C.I.E., LL.D., P.E.S., late Superintendent of the Boyal 

 Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and 'S. Sykes Gamble, C.I.E., P.E.S., 

 late of the Indian Forest Bepartment. 



No. 18. 



This part contains nine Natural Orders, viz., Nos. 79 Hydrophyllacece 

 to 85 Bentihidariacece inclusive, as well as Nos. 87 Bignoniacece and 88 

 Pedalinece. The whole part is the work of Lieut. -Col. D. Prain, I. M.S., 

 F.E.S., Superintendent of the Eoyal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, with the 

 exception of Boraginece, which has been done by Sir George King, 

 and Hydrophyllacece and Bignoniacece, which have been done hj 

 Mr. Gamble. 



The nine Orders dealt with contain 53 genera and 150 species : of 

 the species none are here described for the first time. 



Natural Order No. 86 Gesneracece will follow later on with the 

 three Orders, 75 Apocynacece, 76 Asclepiadacece, and 77 Loganiacece, 

 the preparation of which is not yet quite complete. 



Order LXXIX. HYDEOPHYLLACE.^. 



Annual or perennial herbaceous plants. Leaves radical or alternate,^ 

 rarely opposite, entire or dentate, simple or pinnately or palmately 

 lobed. Floioers usually unilaterally sub-sessile on the branches of a 

 bifid or dichotomous scorpioid cyme, or else pedunculate in the axils 

 or on the summits of the branches ; regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 



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