668 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



There is no definite line between the examples of this species with small corolla 

 (as John Scott's Penang example, with corolla only -75 in. long and small leaves) and 

 the A. chelonoides, Nees. T. Anderson called our present plant A. gangetica ; 

 while he has twice marked the Java A. chelonoides (with subcompound inflorescence) 

 as A. coromandeliana. 



2. AsYSTAsiA iNTRUSA, Blume Bijdr. 796 (1825) {excl. syn.). A 

 slender undershrub, 2 to 5 ft. high, sparingly pubescent. Leaves 

 2 to 3 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate ; base obtriangular. Bacemes 1 to 



2 in. long ; flowers often opposite. Corolla -7 to '75 in. long, dull 

 pink ; tube linear, widened only near the top. Capsule -75 in. long ; 

 seeds 4, tubercular. Stamens, pollen, pistil, nearly as of A. coro- 

 mandeliana. Moritsi Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 47 ; Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 

 p. 149 {excl. syn.) ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 493 ; 

 Eidley in Journ. As. Soc. Straits 121 (Singapore 1900). A. Blumei, 

 Nees in DC. Prodr. XI. 167 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 793 ; Lindau in 

 Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3b, 326. Isochoriste javanica, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 822; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 



3 b, 326. 



Penang : /. Scott ; Deschamps ; Curtis TIAl ; Waterfall, Curtis 

 1853, 3732. Singapore : Schomburgk 72 ; Hullett ; Bidley 3862.— 

 DiSTRiB. Frequent throughout the Malay Archipelago. 



Nees altered the name of this plant, because he says that there existed an earlier 

 Asy stasia intrusa oi Forskahl; Forskahl's name, however, was Ruellia intrusu . 



20. Phial ACANTHUS, Benth. 



Calyx-segments united into a tube at the base (very shortly so in 

 P. minor). Inflorescence glabrous or very nearly so ; pedicels spreading, 

 with nodding flowers. Capsule, where known {i.e. in P. Wrayi), 

 supported by the hardened elongate calyx-tube ; otherwise as Filetia. — 

 DisTRiB. Species 4, viz. the 3 below, and P. Griffithii, Benth., from 

 East Assam. 



Calyx-tube about as long as the teeth. Pollen with 12 raised 

 strong longitudinal ribs . . . . . , . . 1. P. Wrayi. 



Calyx-tube shorter than the teeth. Pollen with very obscure 

 longitudinal ribs : — 



Corolla 1'25 in. long . . . . . . . . 2. P. major. 



Corolla "6 in. long . . . . . . . . 3. P. minor. 



1. Phialacanthus Wrayi, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. A branched 

 nearly glabrous shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high. Leaves opposite, equal ; lamina 

 5 by 2 in., narrowed at either end, subentire ; tip acuminate ; rhaphides 

 obscure ; petiole "75 to 1 in. long. Panicles 2 to 4 in. long, terminal. 



