638 Flora of the Malayan Penmsula. 



young, in fruit 2 to 5 in. long, somewhat dense, erect. Bract and calyx 

 softly hairy, without long, fine, several- celled hairs ; bract narrow- 

 lanceolate, aristate, "6 in. long ; sepals all linear, the longest one '5 in. 

 long, including its awn 'IG in. long, the awn hairy to the tip with 

 spreading hairs varying in length, but all 'short. Corolla long, hairy 

 without,; tube nearly white, segments and mouth pink to purple. Pistil 

 giabrate. Stamens and pollen of the genus. Capsule '2 in. long. 

 Lindau in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 b, 288. Ebermaiera longi- 

 folia, Nees in DC. Prodr. XI. 76 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. IX. 

 451 (1867) ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 399 ; Eidley in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, III. 332 (1893). 



Malacca : Cuming 2350 ; Lemann ; Griffith (K.D.) 6079 ; Hullett 

 403. Peeak: Scortechini 155; Wray 1302; Bidley 1604; alt. 300 

 to 800 ft.. King's Collector 5821, 8678. Selangoe : Bidley 7590. 

 Negei Sembilan : Bidley 10098. Pahang : Tahan, fide Bidley. 



This species is very close both to S. angustifolia and to S. comosa ; the former 

 diilers by having the awns of the sepals glabrous or microscopically scabrous ; the 

 latter differs in that the sepals have lanceolate-linear soft tips, hardly awns. 



7. Staueogyne comosa, 0. Kuntze Eevisio I. 497 (1891). Ste^n 

 1 to 3 ft. high, almost woody below, hairy. Leaves : blade up 'to 

 8 by 3 to 3'5 in., cuneate at either end ; upper surface glabrous, ob- 

 scurely minute-granular-tuberculate ; petiole 1 to 2-5 in. Spikes short, 

 peduncled, undivided, dense, in flower 1 to 4 in. long, nodding, in 

 fruit up to 5 to 7"5 in. long, often deflexed, rather dense (scarcely 

 interrupted at base), softly hairy. Bract and sepals softly hairy, with 

 long several-celled hairs ; bract -4 in. long in Wallich's type (often longer), 

 lanceolate-acuminate, point linear (hardly awned), with soft white hairs; 

 sepals '3 in. long in Wallich's type (often longer), the longest (wider than 

 the others) lanceolate with a linear soft-hairy tip. Corolla in the bud 

 densely clothed with deflexed hairs without. Pistil glabrous. Stamens 

 and pollen of the genus. Capsule -2 in. long. Lindau in Engl. & 

 Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 b, 288. Buellia ? comosa, Wall. Cat. 2414. 

 Ebermaiera axillaris, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. III. 80, and in DC. Prodr. 

 XL 75 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. IX. 452 (1867) ; C. B. Clarke 

 in Hook. f. PL Br. Ind. IV. 399. 



Penang : Wallich 2414. Peeak : Scortechini 777 ; Wray 2192 ; 

 Bidley 2893 ; 500 to 800 ft.. King's Collector 10705 ; Larut, 100 ft.. 

 King's Collector 1834. Selangoe : (Bidley) 7589, 8543, 10546. 



King's Collector notes the calyx "velvety claret-coloured," the corolla "blue- 

 white, darker inside." The corolla seems caducous, as the large well-collected 

 material provides buds and fruit only. The type examples of Wallich from Penang 



