346 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Selangoe : Bidley I Peeak : Scortechini ! Wray ! Malacca - 

 Griffith ! Cuming ! Maingay ; Hervey ! Singapoee : Cuming ! Wallich. 

 — DiSTEiB. Indo-China, Malaya, Australia. 



Scortechini notes on this, " aromatic ; most likely introduced." It appears, how- 

 ever, to be native. 



5. Adenosma hiesutum, Kurz Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLV. 2. 143. 

 A stout, erect, villous herb, 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves ovate or elliptic,, 

 sub-acute, serrate, base cuneate; blade 1 to 2 in. long, "5 to '75 in. 

 wide ; petiole very short or 0. Floivers in dense cylindric or oblong 

 heads, often ternate, usually peduncled, with closely imbricate hirsute 

 leafy bracts ; peduncles sometimes 1-5 in. long; heads 1 to 3 in. long, 

 •75 to 1 in, wide ; bracts ovate-acute, serrate, '4 to "6 in. long. Calyx 

 of 5 almost free villous linear sepals, -25 in. long. Corolla blue. Cap- 

 sule ovate, abruptly beaked, as long as calyx. Pterostigma hirstiticm.,. 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 562. P. villosum, Miq. I.e. (not of Benth.). 



Pkovincb Wellesley : Curtis 2238 ! Bidley 6977 ! Nicobaes : 

 Kamorta, Kurz ! — Disteib. Sumatra (Teysmann 1157), Bangka {Teys- 

 maun 3429), Borneo {Motley, n. 215). 



A coarser plant than A . capitatum, with leafy bracts throughout the spikes. 



4. Limnophila, E. Br. 



Herbs of marshes and pools, glabrous or pubescent, aromatic. 

 Leaves with transparent dots, opposite or whorled, toothed or cut, 

 when submerged frequently laciniate-multifid. Flowers solitary 

 axillary, sessile or pedicelled, or passing into terminal spikes or racemes ;. 

 bracts leafy ; bracteoles small or obsolete. Calyx 5-partite ; lobes 

 narrow, imbricate, all equal or the upper largest. Corolla 2-labiate ;. 

 upper lip outmost, sub-erect, entire or 2-fid ; lower spreading, 3-lobed ; 

 throat not plicate ; tube cylindric. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; 

 anther-cells all perfect, usually discrete, stipitate, occasionally con- 

 tiguous. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules in each cell numerous ; style slender,, 

 with deflexed tip and 2-lamellate stigma. Fruit an ovoid or oblong 

 capsule, with both septicidal and loculicidal dehiscence, the placenti- 

 ferous septum separating from the valves. Seeds many, minute, angular 

 and truncate, reticulate. — Disteib. Species about 25, in the tropics of 

 the Eastern Hemisphere and Australia. 



Leaves never pinnatifid above, very rarely so even on lower 

 portion of stem : — 

 Flowers sessile : — 



Leaves at least 1 in. long : — 

 Leaves petioled, 2 to 3 in. long, pubescent or glabrous .. 1. L. Roxburgliii, 



