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lobe and the lower lip of the corolla. Capsule ovate, -2 in. long, hidden 

 by the calyx. Seeds obovoid, reticulate, cells of the testa sub-hexa- 

 gonal. U. Griffithii, Wight Ic. t. 1576 ; Eidl. Joum. Bot. XXXIII. 10. 

 U. coerulea, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 256 {7iot of Linn.). 



MAiiACCA : Griffith ! Bidley ! Peeak : Scortechini ! Sixgapoee : 

 Hullett ! Bidley ! — Distrib. China, Burma, Tenasserim, Borneo. 



There are only shrivelled leaves on Eidley's and Wight's specimens, which are 

 mostly in fruit ; Scorteehini's specimens, which are in flower, have numerous radical 

 grassy linear-spathulate obtuse leaves, -5 in. long or rather longer. Mr. Eidley, in 

 all probability rightly, considers that this is entitled to specific rank apart from 

 U. affinis. 



6. Uteiculaeia minutissima, Vahl Enum. I. 204. A very small 

 erect weed of wet places ; leaves at time of flowering and not seen ; 

 roots fibrous, bladders not seen. Scapes capillary, rigid, branched, 2 to 

 3 in. long, quite glabrous, or with a few rigid scattered black hairs ; 

 racemes 2-5-flowered, beset with a few basifixed ovate-acute empty 

 bracts or scales ; pedicels very short, in fruit only '05 in. long, 

 occasionally like the upper calyx-lobe with a few straight black hairs, 

 sub-patent, with small lanceolate basifixed bracts and bracteoles, less 

 than half as long as their pedicels. Calyx 2-lobed, lobes sub-equal 

 wide-oblong, obtuse, in fruit -1 in. long. Corolla mauve, '15 in. wide ; 

 spur wide-conic-cylindric, thrice as long as lower calyx-lobe and twice 

 as long as lower lip of corolla. Capsule oblong, -07 in. long, covered 

 by the calyx. Seeds minute, ovoid, obscurely scrobiculate. A. DC. 

 Prod. VIII. 16 ; Oliv. Journ. Linn. Soc. III. 190 ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. IV. 334 ; Eidl. Journ. Bot. XXXIII. 11. 



Peeak : Larut, Scortechini 1501 ! Pahang : Kwala Pahang, Bidley 

 1474c in part ! Malacca : Koenig ; on Mount Ophir, Bidley. 



This small plant, collected by Scortechini with no note of colour, and stated by 

 Eidley to have mauve flowers, is here identified with U. minutissima, Vahl, from 

 description only. The branched capillary stems render it very like and very liable 

 to be mistaken for small specimens of U. verticillata, which has, however, longer 

 pedicels and bracts produced below their point of insertion. The presence of hairs 

 on the stems, pedicels, and sometimes the calyx, at once suggests a reference to 

 U. hirta, which is undoubtedly its nearest affinity. The scape, however, appears 

 never to branch in U. hirta ; the flowers in that species are larger and fewer ; the 

 pubescence, too, when present in U. minutissima, which is not always the case, is very 

 different, consisting of rigid patent black bristly hairs, whereas in U. hirta the hairs 

 are soft and grey or tawny. The seeds of the two species are very similar, but those of 

 U. minutissima are smaller and yet have fewer- and larger-meshed sub-hexagonal 

 reticulations. 



7. Uteiculaeia Wallichiana, Wight Ic. t. 1572, fig. 1. A very 

 slender herb growing in wettish fields and damp grassy places ; stems 



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