636 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



78 (1870), united the three species, .5. setigera, S. argentea, and S. lanceolata ; they 

 are undoubtedly very closely allied. 



2. Staueogyne lanceolata, 0. Kuntze Revisio I. 497 (1891). 

 Stem 6 to 14 in. high, erect, woody, undivided. Leaves 4 to 5 by 'G to 

 1 in. (or smaller), lanceolate or generally narrow-lanceolate, nearly 

 glabrate on both surfaces. Inflorescence 1 in. long, in fruit 1-5 to 2 in. 

 long, less dense than that of E. setigera, Nees. Bracts, ])rophylla, and 

 calyx as of E. setigera, the longest sepal a trifle broader, linear- 

 lanceolate at base. Corolla hairy without in the bud. Adenosma 

 lanceolatum, Blume Bijdr. 756. Ehermaiera lanceolata, Hassk. Cat. 

 Hort. Bogor. 147 ; Nees in DC. Prodr. XI. 76 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 774 {not of C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. El. Br. Ind. IV. 397). E. longi- 

 folia, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, Bot. III. 332 (1893). 



Pahang: Bidley 2177, 2178 {partly). Malacca: Derry 23.— 

 DisTEiB. Java {Zollinger 591). 



3. Staueogyne malacgensis, C. B. Clarke. Herbaceous, 4 to 8 in. 

 high, often branched. Stem hairy, often rusty at top, carrying 1 to 4, 

 sometimes 8, spikes. Leaves up to 4 by 1 in., elliptic-lanceolate ; base 

 cuneate ; mature with nearly glabrate surfaces ; petiole "5 to 1 in. long. 

 Heads 1 to 1'5 in. long, dense, in fruit lengthening to 2 to 3'5 in., lax, 

 sometimes interrupted at base. Bracts oblong or eUiptic-oblong, 

 conspicuous, somewhat persistent. Sepals "4 in. long, conspicuously 

 unequal, the larger one lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 hardly awned, the other 4 nearly linear ; tips of all the sepals with 

 many, short, patent hairs and scattered, long, several-celled hairs. 

 Corolla -6 in. long, nearly glabrous without. Ovary with scattered 

 minute gland-tipped hairs in the upper half, which remain tiU the 

 seeds are quite ripe. Ehermaiera argentea, Nees in DC. Prodr. XI. 

 76 {partly) ; T. Anders, in Jom-n. Linn. Soc. IX. 451 (1867). E. lan- 

 ceolata, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 397 {exclud. syn.) 

 {not of Nees). E. Staurogyne, T. xVnders. MS. in hb. Calcutta {not of 

 Nees). 



Kedah and Kasoom : Curtis. Penang : Curtis 1931. Malacca : 

 Griffith 189; Bidley 1636. Province Welleslet: Bidley 6198. — 

 DiBTEiB. Java; Tenasserim. 



The type Staurogyne argentea, Wall. PI. As. Ear. II. 80 t. 186 (1831), is the 

 common Khasia species, remote from the present, but (as Wallich says) very near 

 .S'. angustifolia, Wallich. Staurogyne argentea, 0. Kuntze (and of Lindau), includes 

 probably S. argentea and S. angustifolia, but not S. malaccensis. 



4. Staueogyne angustifolia., Wall. PI. As. Ptar. II. 81 (1831). 

 Stem 8 to 12 in. long, suberect, little divided, hairy, almost woody at 



