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34. Hypoestes, E. Brown. 

 Erect branched lierbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite, subequal, 

 petioled. Flowers paired, one of these often imperfect or wanting 

 the two bracts connate (in the Malay species) into an obconic or 

 cylindric invokicre ; prophylla to the lower bract inside the involucre 

 usually longer than the calyx ; prophylla to the upper bract often ; 

 involucres often numerous, in heads, dense panicles or racemes. Calyx 

 shorter than the involucre, deeply lobed ; teeth 5, lanceolate. Corolla 

 rose-purple ; tube linear ; lips 2, narrow. Stamens 2 ; anthers of 1 cell, 

 muticous ; pollen ellipsoid, longitudinally striate. Ovary 4-ovtilate ; 

 style glabrate upwards, shortly bifid. Cai^side oblong or ellipsoid, 

 stalked, 4-seeded ; placentae not rising elastically from the base of the 

 capsule ; seeds glabrous, tuberculate-granular. — Distrib. Species 40, 

 mostly in Africa and Mascarenia ; 8 species are described by Miquel 

 from Malaya, but these 8 are so closely allied that they might be 

 described as 2. 



The genus Hypoestes abounds in the Malay Archipelago, and the quantity of 

 material from thence is very large. In India, again, Hypoestes is frequent. But 

 from the Malay Peninsula I have only seen one collection, viz. Maingay 1176, here 

 described. 



1. Hypoestes malaccensis, Wight Ic. 1555 (before 1850). Pube- 

 scent, branched, 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves up to 3 by '8 in., elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate, narrowed at either end, entire, petiole "5 in. long. Bivolucres 

 in axillary and terminal ovoid clusters 1 in. long ; involucres "8 in. long, 

 shortly conic at base, with 2 linear teeth. Calyx '25 in. long, minutely 

 thinly hairy. Corolla -75 in. long. Pollen with 3 stopples. T. Anders, 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. IX. 522 (1867) ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. IV. 558; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl Pfianzenfam. IV. 3b, 333. 

 H. rosea, Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. III. 381 (Paris 1834) {7ion Beauv.). 



Malacca: Griffith; Capt. A. C. Wight; Maingay (K.D.) 1176.— 

 DiSTEiB. Malay Islands. 



With this is united (in Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 558) the Malay Archipelago species 

 H. Decaisneana, Nees, and H. laxiflora, Nees, which differ very little. 



35. RuNGiA, Nees. 

 Small undershrubs or herbs. Leaves opposite, equal. Flotvers in 

 peduncled spikes; floral leaves sometimes strobilate, including two 

 bracts ; lower bract longer than the calyx, upper smaller, sterile, nearly 

 always empty. Sepals 5, nearly separate, linear. Corolla small, 

 2-lipped ; tube oblong, short ; lobes imbricated in the bud. Stamens 2 ; 



