714 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. ScuTELLAEiA DiscoLOE, Colebr. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. I. 66 (1830). 

 A slender pubescent herb. Stems ascending from a creeping rootstock, 

 1 to 2 ft. high ; rarely branched, often naked above. Leaves opposite, 

 and crowded towards the base of the stem, pubescent on both sides, 

 often purple beneath, elliptic, obtuse ; base rounded or cordate ; margin 

 crenate ; 1-5 to 4 in. long, -75 to 2-5 in. wide ; petioles 1 to 3 in. long. 

 Flotvers disposed in slender racemes 2 to 8 in. long ; rachis pubescent ; 

 bracts •! to '15 in. long; pedicels "1 in. long. Calyx -12 in. (in fruit 

 •2 in.) long, pubescent. Corolla pale-blue, faintly puberulous externally, 

 •5 to "6 in. long ; tube '4 in. long ; throat somewhat dilated ; lower lip 

 3-lobed; upper lip galeate, obtuse. Nutlets '03 in. long, scabrid. 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. XII. 417; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 667. 

 S. inclica, Blume Bijdr. 839 ; Wall. Cat. 2134 {not o/Linn.). S. heteropoda, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 972. 



Peeak : Scortechini. — Disteib. India ; Indo-China ; Malay 

 Archipelago. 



2. ScuTELLAEiA ANDAMANiCA, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LIX. ii. 

 307 (1890). A slender glabrous undershrub. Stems many from a 

 woody rootstock with clustered rootlets, 8 to 10 in. high, simple or 

 branched. Leaves opposite, rather few, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse ; 

 base long-cuneate, entire ; margin elsewhere crenate-dentate ; 1*5 to 

 1-75 in. long, -4 to -6 in. wide ; petiole 1 to 1'5 in. long. Flowers 

 opposite above, in whorls of three below, in slender racemes 3 to 4 in. 

 long ; bracts "12 in. long ; pedicels "12 in. long. Calyx -12 in. (in fruit 

 •2 in.) long, glabrous. Corolla blue, with centre of lower lip white ; 

 •6 in. long ; throat little dilated ; lower lip 3-lobed ; upper lip galeate. 

 Nutlets -04 in. long, scabrid, pale-brown. Ann. Eoy. Bet. Gard. Calc. 

 IX. i. 56, t. 71 A. 



Andamans : Port Blair, in stream beds, not uncommon. 



12. Anisombles, E. Br. 



Herbs, with tall coarse branching stems. Floioers medium, in 

 axillary whorls, or in lax branching paniculate cymes. Calyx ovoid or 

 tubular, straight, equally 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short, annulate 

 within ; lower lip 3-lobed, broad and patent, the mid-lobe retuse or 

 notched ; upper lip entire, erect. Stamens exserted ; anthers con- 

 nivent, those of the lower and longer pair dimidiate ; of the shorter 

 upper pair 2-celled ; the cells parallel, transverse. Disk equal. Style 

 subequally 2-fid. Nutlets smooth. — Disteib. Species about 8, South- 

 eastern Asiatic and Australian. 



