Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 359 



long. Capsule globose, -2 in. in diam. DC. Prod. X. 408 ; Hook. f. 

 Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 275. Diceros angustifolius, Wall. Cat. 3885. 



Penang : /. Scott ! Ridley 9412 ./ Peeak : ScortecMni ! Wray 2246! 

 2721 ./ King's Collector 3045 ! Pahang : Ridley 2165a ! Si2s"gapobe : 

 Wallich 8885 .' Selangoe : Sepang, Ridley 7604 ! Johgee : Serom, 

 Ridley 11134! 



Very nearly related to A. sesamoides, -which differs chiefly by its larger blue flowers 

 and larger capsules. 



9. Cueanga, Juss. 

 Herbs, creeping or diffuse. Leaves opposite, ovate, crenate. Flowers 

 in short terminal or pseudo-axillary racemes ; bracts small, leafy ; 

 bracteoles 0. Calyx deeply 4-partite ; upper and lower lobes very 

 large, lateral small and narrow. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip outmost^ 

 wide-arched, emarginate ; lower longer, spreading, 3-lobed ; tube short. 

 Stamens 2, only the upper pair perfect, included, inserted on corolla- 

 tube ; anthers connate with divaricate cells ; lower pair of stamens 

 replaced by 2 clavate staminodes on corolla-throat. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovules in each cell numerous ; style slender ; stigma 2-lamellate. 

 Fruit an orbicular septicidal capsule, covered by the accrescent calyx- 

 lobes, valves separating from the broad placentiferous septum. Seeds 

 many, rugose. — Disteib. Species 2, S.E. Asiatic. 



Cueanga amaea, Juss. Ann. Mus. IX. 320. An annual glabrous 

 herb, with slender straggling divaricate branches, 2 to 3 feet long, root- 

 ing at the lower nodes. Leaves very bitter, ovate, crenate, obtuse or 

 acute, base truncate rounded or cuneate, entire ; blade 2 to 2-5 in. long, 

 1-5 to 2 in. wide ; petiole very slender, "5 to -75 in. long. Floivers in 

 short, few-flowered racemes, 2 to 2-5 in. long ; pedicels "25 to -3 in., in 

 fruit -5 in. long. Calyx with the outer sepals broadly ovate-cordate, 

 membranous, reticulate, in flower '25 in., in fruit -5 in. long. Corolla 

 brownish-red. Capside small, compressed, "15 in. across. Benth. in 

 DC. Prod. X. 408 ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 275. Caranga amara, 

 Vahl Symb. I. 100. G-ratiola amara, Eoxb. Plor. Ind. I. 136. Her- 

 pestis amara, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 30. Symphillium torenioides. Griff. 

 in Madr. Journ. Nat. Sc. IV. 1, t. 11. Treisteria assamica. Griff. Notul. 

 IV. 111. Eumph. Herb. Amboin. V. t. 170, f. 1. 



Peeak : ScortecMni 499b ! Ridley 9742 ! Pahang : Ridley 1346 I 

 Selangoe : Ridley 8214 ! — Disteib. East Himalaya, Indo-China, 

 Malaya, Philippines. 



10. Bonnaya, Link & Otto. 

 Herbs, annual, glabrous. Leaves opposite, serrate or entire. Floivers 

 solitary axillary, often passing into terminal racemes ; bracteoles 0. 



