706 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



lip entire, long boat-shaped ; upper short, 3- to 4-fid, recurved. 

 Stamens 4, declinate ; filaments free, simple ; anther-cells usually con- 

 fluent. Dish usually produced anteriorly, there nearly to fully as long- 

 as the ovary. Style usually 2-fid. Nutlets orbicular or occasionally 

 oblong or ovoid, smooth, granulate or punctate. — Disteib. Species 

 about 100, in the Tropics of the Old World, Australia and Polynesia. 



Plecteanthus Kunstleei, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI. ii. 

 521 (1897). A stoutish shrubby plant, 2 to 5 ft. high, everywhere 

 finely puberulous. Leaves opposite, membranous, pale-green especi- 

 ally beneath and there sparsely glandular-puberulous, darker and simi- 

 larly faintly puberulous above, sometimes with a whitish line down 

 the centre, ovate-acute with entire, cuneate base and short, entire, 

 subacuminate apex ; margin elsewhere regularly crenate ; 3 to 4-75 in. 

 long, 1'5 to 2 in. wide ; petiole 1'5 to 2 in. long. Flowers in racemed 

 cymes disposed in stout panicles with ascending branches, 6 in. long, 

 4 in. across. Calyx in fruit -2 in. long, gland-dotted ; pedicels "15 in. 

 long, finely puberulous ; the two lower teeth subulate, the two lateral 

 ovate-acute, longer than the upper orbicular-ovate. Corolla greenish- 

 white, or waxy white, faintly dotted, -4 in. long ; the tube decurved 

 with a gibbous base, one and a half times as long as the boat-shaped 

 lower lip ; upper lip rather short. Filaments discrete from the point 

 at which they are free from the corolla-tube. Nutlets oblong, brown, 

 hardly shining. Ann. Edy. Bot. Gard. Calc. IX. i. 55, t. 70. 



Peeak: Kwala Dipong, 400 to 600 ft. elev., King's Collector (Kunstler) 

 8240 ! Kinta, 800 to 1000 ft.. King's Collector (Kunstler) 7143 ! On 

 limestone ridges. 



5. CoLEUs, Lour. 



Herbs. Flowers usually small, generally in lax, paniculate, 6- to 8- 

 flowered cymes. Calyx 5-toothed, 2-lipped, enlarging in fruit. 

 Corolla-tube exserted, long or short, decurved or straight ; limb 

 gibbous or less often straight, 2-lipped ; lower lip entire, long boat- 

 shaped ; upper short, 3- to 4-fid, recurved. Stamens 4, declinate ; 

 filaments combined below into a sheath around the style ; anther-cells 

 usually confluent. Disk usually produced anteriorly. Style usually 

 2-fid. Nutlets orbicular, oblong or ovoid, smooth, granulate or 

 punctate. — Disteib. Species about 80, in the Tropics of the Old World 

 and in Australia. 



CoLEUs ateopuepueeus, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. II. 16 (1831). 

 A herb 2 to 3 ft. high, everywhere finely pubescent. Leaves opposite, 

 membranous, dark-green above, rather closely puberulous on the nerves, 

 elsewhere sparingly so, paler beneath and pubescent on the main and 



