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anthers sagittate. Ovarij glabrous ; style filiform ; stigma simple. 

 Fruit not seen. 



Pekak : Larut Hill at 3,000 feet, Derry (Herb. Curtis, n. 3710) !— 

 DiSTRiB. Borneo. 



The solitary Perak specimen agrees well with a specimen from Borneo in Herb. 

 Kew ; as our Perak example is destitute of leaves the description of these is based on 

 a second Bornean example of the plant. The species is most readily distinguished 

 from the other two known species by its entire calyx-limb. 



2. Mazus, Lour. 



Small herbs, often surculose. Leaves rosulate or opposite below, 

 opposite or alternate above. Floioers in terminal, sub-secund racemes ; 

 bracts minute or ; bracteoles 0. Calyx campanulate, 5-fid ; lobes 

 large, leafy. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube short, upper lip erect, ovate, 2-fid; 

 lower longer, spreading, 3-fid ; throat with a 2-lobed palate. Stamens 

 4, didynamous ; anther-cells contiguous, divaricate. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style short ; stigma 2-lamellate ; ovules numerous. Capsule globose or 

 compressed, loculicidal, 2-valved, included. Seeds many, ovoid, very 

 minute. — Distrib. Species about 5, Asiatic and Australian. 



Mazus eugosus, Lour. Mor. Cochin-Chin. 385. A small annual 

 glabrous or sparingly hirsute herb. Leaves many, radical, obovate- 

 spathulate, irregularly coarsely crenate, narrowed to a short petiole, 

 •75 to 3 in. long. Scapes numerous from the root, 2 to 10 in. long, 

 leafless or with a few alternate spathulate leaves, with terminal racemes 

 1 to 6 in. long, the pedicels slender, -25 to -5 in. long, usually without 

 bracteoles. Calyx campanulate, "25 in. long, lobes ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, half as long as tube, spreading in fruit. Corolla pale blue, "3 in. 

 long. Capsule -2 in. long, included in the calyx ; calyx-mouth in front 

 •3 to "5 in. across. Seeds very minute ; testa pale straw-coloured. 

 Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 375 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. IV. 424; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 677 ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 259. M. bicolor, Benth. in 

 Wall. Cat. 3913. M. vandellioides, Hance in Walp. Ann. III. 193. 

 Lindernia japonica, Thunb. Flor. Japon. 253. Hornemannia bicolor, 

 WUld. Enum. Hort. Berol. 654 ; Eeichb. Icon. Exot. 25, t. 37. Colum- 

 nea tomentosa, Eoxb. Flor. Ind. III. 98. Stemodia tomentosa, G. Don 

 Gen. Syst. Gard. IV. 842. Tittmannia obovata, Bunge Enum. PI. 

 Chin. 279. Vandellia obovata, Walp. Act. Acad. Leopold. XIX., Suppl. 

 I. 394. Gratiola goodenicsfolia, Hornem. Hort. Hafn. 



Singapore : a garden weed, Bidley ! — Distrib. E. and S.E, Asia 

 generally. 



3. Adenosma, E. Br. 



Annual, villous or glandular aromatic herbs. Leaves opposite, 

 rugose, crenulate. Floioers axiUary or in leafy spikes, racemes or 



