722 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



also often many on the stem below the leaves, -75 to 1-25 in. across ; 

 bracteoles filiform, glabrescent, rather shorter than the calyx, -3 in. long. 

 Calyx -4 in. (in fruit -5 in.) long, obconic-campanulate ; tube slightly 

 curved forwards, glabrous upwards where thickly membranous, usually 

 hispid towards the coriaceous base ; teeth 5, slender, lanceolate, from a 

 triangular membranous base, two-thirds the length of the tube, glabrous. 

 Corolla pale-yellow or white, 1 in. long, with a distinct annulus within; 

 both lips pubescent externally ; lower 3-lobed with oblong mid-lobe and 

 lanceolate lateral lobes ; upper narrow, rounded at apex, half the length 

 of the tube, glabrous within. Filaments all devoid of basal appendages. 

 Style-arms subequal. Nutlets -25 in. long, obovoid, acute below and 

 triquetrous, rounded above, glabrous. Phlomis rugosa, Benth. in Wall. 

 Cat. 2067, in Wall. PI. As. Ear. I. 63, in Lab. Gen. & Sp. 634, and in DC. 

 Prodr. XII. 545 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 693 ; Prain Ann. Eoy. Bot. 

 Gard. Calc. III. 231 ; IX. i. 60. Gomphostemma mevibranifoUum, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 988. 



Peeak : Kinta, on limestone rocks. King's Collector [Kunstler) 7095 ! 

 Scortechinil — Disteib. Eastern Himalaya ; Indo-China; Malay Archi- 

 pelago ; Philippines. 



The specific name applied to this plant by Mr. Bentham is, as Sir Joseph 

 Hooker remarks, wholly inapplicable. Its characters are so different from those of 

 the genus Phlomis, and its habit so unlike that of any member of that genus, that 

 it is necessary to consider it the type of a distinct genus. 



17. GOMPHOSTEMMA, Wall. 



Coarse, stellately pubescent or tomentose perennial herbs or shrubs. 

 Boots sometimes tuberous. Floivers large or medium, in 6- to 24- 

 flowered whorls, sessile and densely or peduncled and laxly cymose ; 

 bracteoles lanceolate or linear. Calyx campanulate, 10-nerved, subequally 

 5-toothed. Corolla-tube slender ; throat inflated ; limb 2-lipped ; lower 

 lip spreading, broadly 3-lobed ; upper lip galeate, entire or emarginate. 

 Stamens 4, pubescent, the lower longer, all ascending ; anthers conni- 

 vent in pairs, 2-locular ; cells transverse, parallel. Disk subequal or 

 gibbous behind. Style 2-fid ; the lobes subulate, the anterior slightly 

 the longer. Nutlets drupaceous, glabrous or pubescent, the pericarp 

 usually fleshy and white, with a broad hilum ; rarely all developed. — 

 Disteib. Species 26, South-eastern Asiatic. 



Corolla with almost straight tube and narrow throat ; calyx- 

 tube hispidly hairy within ; ovary glabrous ; nutlets solitary, 

 glabrous (^ Htenostom.a.) : — 



