674 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



posticous sepal nearly -5 in. long, elliptic mucronate ; anticous calyx- 

 segment similar to the posticous sepal. Corolla yellow ; tube hardly 

 •5 in. long ; posticous lip of 4 connate segments •? in. long ; anticous 

 lip clawed, shorter. Capsule -5 to -7 in. long, 2-seeded. C. B. Clarke 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 482 {ivith syn.) ; Lindau in Engl. & 

 Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 b, 314, tt. 105 c, 106 b, 125 e; Dyer Fl. Cap. 

 V. 46 [toith syn.) ; Prain Beng. Plants 811, 812. 



Malacca : Griffith ; Bidley 2696 ; Harvey ; Derry 271. — Disteib. 

 Africa, India. 



This plant (with closely allied species) is abundant in Africa, and probably wild 

 in Western India. In Eastern India it is cultivated, and found near villages. It may 

 not be wild at Malacca. 



2. Bableria conspicua, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. III. 92 (1832). 

 Large, sparingly pubescent, without spines. Leaves 8 by 2 in., oblong, 

 acuminate at either end ; petioles "5 in. Spikes 5 by nearly 1 in., loose, 

 nearly continuous ; bracteoles present, -7 in. long, linear-oblong, minutely 

 strigose ; outer sepals "7 in. long, lanceolate, one bifid at the top, with 

 some yellow hairs. Corolla 1 in. long, blue. Capsule -75 in. long, 

 narrowly oblong, glabrate, 4-seeded. Seeds ultimately nearly glabrate. 

 Nees in DC. Prodr. XI. 226 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. IX. 493 

 (1867) ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 489. Justicia con- 

 spicua, Wall. Cat. 2460. 



Penang : Wallich. 



24. Eranthemum, E. Brown [Linn, partini] . 



Undershrubs, some very small. Leaves opposite, equal or nearly so, 

 petioled, entire, often undulate or obscurely crenulate, nearly glabrous, 

 usually pubescent at least on the midrib beneath. Panicles narrow, or 

 reduced to apparent spikes, terminal in the species of the Malay 

 Peninsula ; bracts linear, inconspicuous, only in E. caudifolium so 

 much as "25 in. long. Calyx 425 to -2 in. long (-25 in. long or more in 

 E. caudifolium), divided to the base into linear segments, pubescent, 

 ultimately often glabrate. Corolla showy, white or colorate ; tube 

 linear (except in E. hreviflos) ; segments 5, quadrate-elliptic, subequal, 

 spreading, more or less one-sided. Stamens 2 ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers in the mouth of the tube or just exsert, of 2 parallel oblong 

 muticous cells placed at equal height ; pollen shortly ellipsoid or sub- 

 globose, with 2 stopples and 6 to 10 longitudinal bands, often obscure. 

 Ovary with 2 ovules in each cell ; style with 2 subequal minute lobes. 

 Capsule with a linear- cylindric base, and 2 to 4 seeds in the much-widened 

 upper half, Seeds ovoid, flattened, glabrate, corrugate. — Distrib, 



