692 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



panicle 2 by 1 in., many-flowered ; pedicels to -1 in. long ; bracts and 

 propliylla minute or 0. Sepals -06 in. long, lanceolate, glabrous. 

 Corolla -5 in. long, yellow, straight, funnel-shaped, deeply 2-lipped. 

 Stamens 2 ; filaments long, glabrous ; anther-cells 2, oblong, parallel at 

 equal height, obtuse at base, microscopically hairy ; pollen ellipsoid, with 

 2 pores and 2 longitudinal lines of patches beside each stopple. Capsule 

 •75 in. long, slender, glabrous, with 4 seeds in the upper half. 

 Peeak : Bidley 7165. 



This plant satisfies the technical characters of Leda, but the habit and inflores- 

 cence are those of Eranthemum. 



4z. Leda radicans, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. Creeping, rooting. Stems 

 10 in. long, divided, minutely pubescent. Leaves opposite, equal ; 

 blade ovate, 1'5 in. long, subentire, with many small rhaphides, rhom- 

 boid or nearly rounded at the base ; petioles '25 to "5 in. long. Inflor- 

 escence terminal, depauperated, of 2 to 3 distant flowers. Sepals 

 •125 to ^175 in. long, linear, somewhat pubescent. Corolla nearly -5 in. 

 long, as of Dianthera. Stamens 2 ; filaments glabrous ; anther-cells 2, 

 nearly at equal height, muticous ; pollen short-ellipsoid, 25 /x long, with 

 2 stopples, obscurely marked longitudinally. Pistil glabrous. 



Perak : Ulu Salami, Scortechini 129. 



The material for this plant is scanty, and the genus doubtful. 



5. Leda andeogeaphioides, C. B. Clarke. Nearly glabrous. Stems 

 about 1 ft. high, weak. Leaves 3 in. long, elliptic, acuminate ; petioles 

 •25 to "5 in. long. Spikes 2 to 3 in. long, terminal, solitary ; flowers 

 solitary, opposite, in distant pairs ; bracts inconspicuous. Sepals 

 •125 in. long, linear-lanceolate, nearly glabrous. Corolla -6 in. long or 

 rather more ; tube cylindric, straight ; lips short. One anther-cell 

 below the other, with a minute callus at the base ; hardly tailed. 

 Justicia andrographioides, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 

 534 ; Eidley in Journ. As. Soc. Straits 121 (Singapore 1900). 



SiNGAPOEE ; fide Bidley. — Distrib. Tenasserim. 



30. PoLYTREMA, C. B. Clarke, n. gen. 



Slender undershrubs. Opposite pairs of leaves equal or unequal. 

 Liflorescence in small, few-flowered, axillary cymes ; bracts incon- 

 spicuous. Calyx-loheQ 5, linear. Corolla small, 2-lipped. Stamens 2 ; 

 anther-cells 2, oblong, standing a little apart, one slightly below the 

 other, having its base muticous or sometimes acute, not tailed. Pollen 

 globose or obscurely trigonous-globose, without (or with very obscure) 

 longitudinal bands, surface smooth or most minutely uniformly granu- 



