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Perak : at Bujong Malacca, Curtis ; Ulu Batang Padang and 

 Gunong Batu Pateh, 3000 to 5000 ft., Wray 970, 1519 ; on Maxwell's 

 Hill and at Thaiping, ScortechiniQQ, 313, 1227. Malacca: atToondook, 

 Griffith 3781. Johore : at Gunong Pulai, 1800 ft., G. King. 



10. DiscHiDiA HiRSUTA, Dcne. in DC. Prodr. VIII. 632 (1844). A 

 slender epiphytic trailing herb, rooting on the trunks and branches of 

 trees ; stems minutely papillose and slightly hispid-pubescent, nearly 

 white when dry, scarcely ever over -05 in. in diam. Leaves fleshy, 

 coriaceous and very pale when dry ; broadly ovate, acute and mucronate 

 at apex, rounded at base and slightly peltate ; shining and lacunose 

 above, minutely papillose beneath ; margins recurved, often hispid-ciliate ; 

 •5 to 1 in. long, -5 to "7 in. broad ; midrib and 2 to 3 pairs of main nei'ves 

 prominent above when dry, the nerves horizontal, meeting a looped 

 intramarginal nerve close to the edge ; petiole very short, papillose. 

 Cymes umbellate, 2- to 3-flowered, on very short rachises at the ends 

 of short -15 to -2 in. long papillose axillary peduncles ; buds ovoid ; 

 flowers dull red, the tube dark blood-red, the lobes rose-coloured. Calyx 

 spreading ; lobes membranous, ovate, '05 in. long ; scales minute. 

 Corolla urceolate ; tube '2 in. long, globose below, contracted at the 

 mouth, furnished within with a row of tufts of hair half-way up and 

 two further rows at the throat, the lower alternate with, the upper 

 opposite to, the short ovate-acute lobes, which are -05 to -1 in. long and 

 bear 5 adnate fleshy scales behind the tufts of hair. Corona of 5 rather 

 large very membranous processes from the back of the staminal-column 

 between the wings, slender below, broad and bifid and recurved above ; 

 the lobes broadly rounded. Staminal-column conical; the anther- wings 

 prominent, rounded at base ; anther-cells parallel ; appendages acu- 

 minate, membranous, erect ; pollen-masses oblong-clavate, obtuse, 

 seated on upcurved brown caudicles with cup-like top, which are 

 half as long as the pollen-masses and connect them to the large conical 

 dark brown pollen-carriers. Style-apex very soft ; tip long-conical. 

 Follicles " 3 in. long, curved, linear-lanceolate, glabrous " (Scortechini). 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 599 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 50 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 7853. D. fasciculata, Dene. I. c. ; Miq. I. c. D. Brunoniana, Grifi'. 

 Notul. IV. 44, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 410a, fig. 1 (somewhat incorrect). 

 Le'ptostemyna hirsutum ajid fascicidatum, Blume Bijdr. 1058. 



Penang : at Bato Fereng, Curtis 1897. Perak : at Waterfall Hill, 

 Wray 137 ; Scortechini 180 ; at Lartit, 200 to 300 ft.. King's Collector 6691. 

 DiNDiNGS : at Pangkore Island, Scortechini 1077. Malacca : Griffith ; 

 Maingay (K.D.) 1120. Singapore : Biclley 2730. — Distrib. Biirma 

 (in Tenasserim {Heifer), at Mergui in mangrove forests (Griffith 3782)), 

 Java, Borneo. 



