672 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Lindau, in order to get, LepUlagatlds into a Tribe characterized by honeycombed 

 pollen, advances the explanation that in Lepidagathis honeycomb bands are indicated 

 by rows of points. I reckon honeycomb-pollen to be globose without longitudinal 

 bands, and I do not esteem the pollen of Lepidagathis as honeycomb-pollen. 



Flowers -o in. long. Spikes rarely up to 3 in. long : — 



Leaves 3 to 5 in. long. Spikes -5 to 1*5 in. long . . 1. X,, incurva. 



Leaves 6 to 7 in. long. Spikes 2 to 3 in. long . . . . 2. L. chlorostachya. 

 Flowers 1 to 1-3 in. long. Spikes 4 to 8 in. long : — 



Upper bracts elliptic-lanceolate. Corolla pink-purple, 1 in. 



long . . . . . . . . . . 3. L. longifoUa. 



Upper bracts linear. Corolla white, 1-3 in. long . . i. L. macrantha. 



1. Lepidagathis incueva, D. Don Prodr. PI. Nepal. 119 (1825). 

 Stem suberect, 1 to 2 ft. high, decumbent, rooting at base. Leaves 3 to 

 5 in. long, oblong, narrowed at each end, pubescent or nearly glabrate ; 

 margin often undulate ; petiole -5 in. long. Spikes -5 to 1-5 in. long, 

 oblong, axillary and terminal, erect, sessile, often clustered, ciliate, often 

 softly hairy ; bracts secund, nearly -5 in. long, lanceolate, mucronate ; 

 prophylla nearly -35 in. long, lanceolate, mucronate. Sepals 5, narrow- 

 lanceolate, nearly -35 in. long, unequal. Corolla '25 in. long, white with 

 brown spots on the palate. Anther-cells one slightly below the other, 

 often minutely tailed. Capsule -2 in. long, conic, hairy at top. Seeds 

 4, flat, shghtly hairy on the margin. Kurz in Flora LIII. 363 (1870). 

 L. hyalina, Nees in WaU. PI. As. Ear. III. 95 (1832), and in DC. 

 Prodr. XI. 252 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 815 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 521; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 244 (1890) ; 

 Lindau in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 B, 313 ; Prain Beng. 

 Plants 815. L. cephalotes, 0. Kuntze Eevisio I. 492. Buellia 

 dependens, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 49. Hypoestes cephalotes, Link Jahrb. 

 III. 48. 



Penang : Curtis 2760, 3733 ; Ridley 2760, 7170, alt. 100 to 200 ft. ; 

 King's Collector 1292. Kedah : Bidley 8319. — Disteib. Common 

 throughout India ; extending to China and Malaya. 



2. Lepidagathis chloeostachya, Nees in DC. Prodr. XL 256 

 (1847). Leaves 7 by 2-25 in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate 

 at the base. Spikes often 2 to 3 in. long, broader than in L. incurva ; 

 otherwise as in L. incurva. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. IX. 496 

 (1867) ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 519. 



Penang : Pulo Poongah, Curtis 2941. — Disteib. Mergui, Griffith 

 (K.D.) 6141. 



This is a much larger plant than L. incurva ; the bracts are longer and the spikes 

 manifestly broader, but the corolla is hardly longer. 



3. Lepidagathis longifolia, Wight Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 1564 (1850). 



