642 Flora of the Malayan Peninstda. 



Griffith. Singapore : Walker 197. Indrageri : Curtis. — Distrib. 

 Moulmein. 



16. Staurogyne macrantha, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. Stem 3 to 4 ft. 

 long, villous. Leaves glabrous, with a very few remote hairs on the 

 upper surface; blade 4-5 by 1-75 in., elliptic-lanceolate, subacute; base 

 cuneate ; petiole '25 to 1 in. long, villous. Peduncles two, penultimate, 

 3 in. long, villous, carrying small few-flowered panicles ; bracts -2 in. 

 long, linear, very hairy. Sepals subequal, '175 in. long, linear, very 

 hairy. Corolla 1 in. long, pubescent without. 



Perak : at Larut, alt. 4500 to 5000 ft.. King's Collector 2417. 



17. Staurogyne serrulata, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. Stem elongate, 

 villous upwards. Leaves 4 to 5 by 1-75 in., elliptic, acuminate at either 

 end ; margin closely serrulate ; both surfaces slightly pubescent ; petiole 

 •5 to 1 in. long, villous. Peduncles 4, from the penultimate axils, 4 in. 

 long, villous ; inflorescence 12- to 18-fiowered, lax, pubescent ; bracts 

 hardly -125 in. long, linear. Calyx -125 in. long. Corolla -75 in. long, 

 white, nearly straight, but the pedicels bent close under the calyx, so 

 as to bring the corollas horizontal. 



Perak : Ulu Batang Padang, Wray 1599 ; Scortechini. 



4. Cardanthera, Voigt. 

 Herbs. Leaves opposite ; upper toothed, rarely entire ; lower fre- 

 quently pinnatifid. Floicers in axillary clusters (in non -Malayan species 

 running into terminal inflorescences) ; bracts and prophylla often 

 obscure or 0. SejJals narrow, often unequal. Corolla nearly straight ; 

 tube shorter than the calyx ; limb 2-lipped ; lobes contorted in the bud. 

 Stamens 4, fertile ; anther-cells oblong ; pollen globose, small, with 

 numerous strias converging to the poles. Capsule sessile, narrow, seed- 

 bearing from the base. Seeds 30 to 100, on small, straight, conic, soft 

 funicles, hardly to be called retinacula {i. e. curved, rigid, pointed), 

 glabrous or slightly glandular, i. e. not clothed with hygroscopic hairs. — 

 Distrib. Species about 8 in India, 2 in Africa. 



This genus should, according to Slater, be placed in the same Subfamily with 

 Staurogyne, the pollen being identical in the two genera. 



Cardanthera triflora, Yoigt Hort. Sub. Calc. 482 (1845). Pube- 

 scent, decumbent. Branches up to 1 ft. long. Leaves ovate, crenate- 

 serrate, the lower (when in water) often pinnatifid. Flotvers 1 to 8 in 

 the axils ; bracts -3 to -35 in. long, obovate; prophylla -25 in. long, oblong. 

 Sepals linear, unequal, about as long as the bract. Corolla -35 to -5 in. 

 long, purple and white. Capsule "25 to "35 in., pubescent ; style thinly 

 hairy. C. B. Clarke in Hook, f. Fl. Br. Ind, IV. 405. Pvuellia triflora, 



