652 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



Sect. 1. Flowers less than "75 iri. long, 1 to 3 together in small 



short-peduncled heads . . . . . . . . 1. H. Ridleyi. 



Sect. 2. Flowers less than -75 in. long, in rather loose 

 spikes : — 

 Sepals softly hairy, tips ligulate-triangular : — 



Mature leaves nearly glabrate . . . . .. 2. H. confinis. 



Mature leaves hairy . . . . . . . . B. H. hirsuta. 



Sepals with linear-subulate white-hispid tips : — 



Capsule hardly '25 in. long, nearly terete . . . . i. H. alternata. 



Capsule more than -25 in. long, obovoid, flattened .. o. H. platycarpos. 



1. Hemigeaphis Eidleyi, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. Branches (seen) 1 foot 

 long, rambling or creeping, rooting, scabrid-pubescent with small sub- 

 erect hairs. Leaves in equal opposite pairs ; blade 2 by 1 in., ovate- 

 elliptic, acute, crenate ; upper surface with few scattered several-celled 

 bristles (few of these bulbous at base), and with many conspicuous 

 rhaphides ; petioles -25 to -35 in. long. Floioers 1 to 3 in small heads 

 on axillary peduncles '175 to '25 in. long ; bract oblong -35 in. long ; 

 bracteoles (prophylla) linear, hardly half as long as the calyx. Calyx 

 •175 in. long ; sepals lanceolate-linear, with several-celled white hairs. 

 Corolla -5 in. long. Stamens and anthers of the genus ; filaments with 

 long white simple hairs ; pollen 60 by 30 //, with 12 to 16 ribs and two 

 large stopples. Ovary oblong, 8-ovulate, glabrous, but hairy at the top. 

 /S'^;?//e slightly hairy at the base; one stigmatic branch elongate, the 

 other suppressed. Capsule not seen. 



Pahang : Ridley 2180 (probably H. confinis, Eidley in Trans. Linn. 

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



This is allied, in inflorescence and habit, to Hemigraphis ravacensis (Nees sub 

 Muellia). 



2. Hemigeaphis confinis, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. IX. 463 

 (1867). Stem 2 feet, branching, pubescent. Leaves: blade up to 4 by 

 1-7 in., elliptic, narrowed at either end, obscurely crenate, mature a 

 grey-green and nearly glabrous ; rhaphides in the upper surface obscure ; 

 petiole '25 in. long. Spikes 1 to 2 by '7 in., continuous but rather loose ; 

 bract "5 in. long, obovate or elliptic with triangular tip ; prophylla 

 linear, hardly half as long as the calyx. Calyx -35 in. long, softly 

 hairy ; sepals ligulate upwards with triangular tip. Corolla -5 in. long. 

 Stamens of the genus ; filaments nearly glabrous ; pollen 50 by 30 //-, 

 with 12 to 16 longitudinal ribs and no stopples. Ovary glabrous, except 

 at the tip ; style of the genus. Capsule -25 in. long, slightly flattened, 

 glabrous except at the tip, 8-seeded nearly from the base. C. B. Clarke 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 423. Buellia confinis, Nees in DC. Prodr. 

 XI. 148 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 788. 



