Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 677 



very thinly hairy. Capsule 1 in. long, with 4 seeds in the upper 

 part. 



Perak : Scortechini 447, 1531 ; Curtis 3150, 3341. Bindings : 

 Ridley 3066 bis. 



There are abundant collections and a detailed MS. description of this iAd.nt by 

 Scortechini. It is easily recognized by the small flowers with a large capsule, some- 

 times more than an inch long. 



5. Eeanthemum selangoeense, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. A branched 

 shrub, minutely pubescent. Leaves : blade 5 to 6 by 2-5 in., elliptic- 

 acuminate ; base obtuse or rounded. Panicle 3 by 1 to 2 in. ; lower 

 branches sometimes much developed, 1 in. long, carrying 3 to 6 flowers. 

 Sepals scarcely -175 in. long. Corolla-tube -6 in. long. Otherwise as 

 E. ca%idifolium. 



Selangor : Sungu Bulia, Goodenoicgh 10547 ; Kwala Lumpor, Curtis 

 2367. 



6. Eeanthemum album, Nees in DC. Prodr. XI. 455 (1847). A 

 nearly glabrate undershrub, 1 to 3 ft. high. Stem usually lignescent, 

 with white bark, to the very base of the inflorescence. Leaves opposite, 

 subequal ; blade 5-5 by 2-5 in., shortly acuminate at either end, often 

 whitened underneath ; margins often obscurely undulate, crenulate ; 

 nerves 7 pairs ; petioles '5 to 1 in. long. Inflorescence a panicle of many 

 thin spikes, 4 to 8 in. long (poor examples with one spike occur) ; 

 flowers mostly solitary, in distant pairs, the lower -25 in. apart or more ; 

 bracts linear, -175 in. ; pedicels to "175 in. (i.e., the spike is itself a 

 contracted panicle). Sepals -175 in. long, linear, minutely pubescent. 

 Corolla white ; tube 1 to 1-3 in. long, linear, exactly the same width to 

 the top. Staynens and pistil glabrous ; pollen subglobose, 30 //. in diam., 

 lightly banded longitudinally. Capsule 1 in. long, glabrous or scarcely 

 microscopically puberulous, 4-seeded near the top, slightly contracted 

 between the pairs of seeds. Seeds corrugated. C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 498; Eidley in Journ. As. Soc. Straits 121 (Singa- 

 pore 1900) ; Prain Beng. Plants 814. E. diversifoUum, Miq. El. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 837. E. crenulatum, Nees in DC. Prodr. XI. 453. Var. a 

 {partim), 454 ; Var. y angustifolia {partirii). Justicia alba, Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ed. Carey & WaU. I. 117 (1820) ; Ic. Ined. 1105 in hb. Kew. J. 

 orbiculata, WaU. Cat. 2489 b. 



Malacca : Griffith. Malay Peninsula : Griffith (K.D.) 6175 

 (partly). — Disteib. Chittagong ; Pegu; abundant in the Andamans 

 and Nicobars ; Malaya. 



Nees' type example of his E. Z oiling erianum, viz. Zollinger 162 in Javalectus, is in 

 Kew, but is not this. In the large examples the panicle has many long curved spikes, 



