Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 599 



erect, 6 to 18 in. high. Leaves Hnear-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, 

 nearly glabrous, about 2 in. long and -75 in. broad ; petiole -25 in. long. 

 Cymes 2 to 6 in. long, often numerous, terminal and axillary, dicho- 

 tomous ; bracts lanceolate, less than •! in. long. Floioers subsessile, 

 under -1 in. long ; capsules 2-horned, secund. Seeds twice as long as 

 broad, trigonous. A. DO. Prodi-. IX. 9 ; Hook. Ic. Plant. 827 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 360 ; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I. 91 ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 79. M. paniculata, Wall. Cat. 4349 ; Wight 

 Ic. 600 {inaccurate) ; A. DC. I. c. M. inconspiciui, Zoll. et Mor. Vers. 

 (1845 to 1846) 55. 



Said to occur in Kedah, but no specimen seen. — Disteib. Andaman 

 Islands, Burma, Central Provinces of British India, Malay Archipelago, 

 Australia. 



2. MiTEASACME, Labill. 



Small herbs, w-ith opposite leaves and stipules forming a minute 

 sheath. Floivers small, white, terminal or axillary, solitary, clustered 

 or in irregular umbels. Calyx campanulate, 4-fid. Corolla urceolate, 

 with 4 valvate or reduplicate sometimes spreading lobes. Stamens 4, 

 included ; filaments rather short, adnate to the tube ; anthers ovate 

 with cordate bases, connective often produced beyond the apex of the 

 paraUel cells. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, connate, separating from the 

 base upwards, finally divergent ; stigma capitate or two-lobed ; ovules 

 many in each cell, on peltate placentas. Capsule subglobose, laterally 

 subcompressed, truncate, or somewhat 2-horned, dehiscing by the 

 separation from above downwards of the carpels from the septum on 

 each side. Seeds numerous, minute, subglobose ; testa smooth, reticu- 

 lated ; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight. ^Disteib. 28 species, in 

 Eastern Asia, New Zealand, Australia. 



MiTEASACME POLYMOEPHA, E. Br. Prod. Nov. Holl. I. 452 (1810). An 

 erect annual herb, 3 to 9 in. high, often with a long erect branch from the 

 uppermost leaf-axil. Stem slender, glabrous except for a few slender hairs 

 in the leafy part. Leaves sessile, oblong, blunt, confined to the low^er 

 inch or two of the stem, glabrous, '2 to -3 in. long, and about -05 in. 

 broad. Umbels terminal, or at the ends of the scanty branches, few- 

 flowered, very lax ; pedicels much longer than the flowers, slender, 

 unequal, glabrous. Flmoers "15 in. long. Calyx with 4 spreading, 

 triangular, acute lobes. Corolla twice as long as the calyx ; throat 

 hairy. Capsule subglobular, glabrous, about -1 in. across. A. DC. Prodr. 

 IX. 10; Benth. Fl. Austral. IV. 353; Solereder in Engl. & Prantl 

 Naturl. Pflanzenfam. IV. 2, 35, Fig. 18a-c. M. capillaris, Wall, in 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey i^ Wall. I. 420, and Cat. 4348 ; Don Prodr. 



