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smooth, hispid towards the apex. Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. III. 

 260. 



Peeak : Gunong Tujok, Scortechini \ ; Lariit, Kunstler 1959! — 

 DiSTEiB. Indo-China. 



Very closely related to G. oblongum, Wall., of which it appears to be the repre- 

 sentative in the Malayan Peninsula. It extends northwards to Tenasserim, and its 

 area thus to some extent overlaps that of G. oblongum. 



4. GoMPHOSTEMMA OBLONGUM, Wall. Cat. 2154 (1828). A coarse 

 perennial herb, 3 to 5 ft. high. Stems stout, erect, woody, somewhat 

 4-angled. densely tomentose. Leaves opposite, herbaceous, dark-green, 

 hispidly hairy above, densely pubescent beneath, elliptic-oblong, acute ; 

 base rather abruptly cuneate or subtruncate ; margin crenate or crenate- 

 serrate ; 6 to 12 in. long, 2 to 3"5 in. wide ; petiole -35 to 1 in. long, 

 densely tomentose. Floivers in rather dense few-flowered axillary 

 whorls ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, "25 in. long. Calyx -5 in. long, promi- 

 nently ribbed, hirsute within ; teeth lanceolate, not longer than the 

 tube. Corolla white, 1'75 in. long, distinctly incurved, tomentose 

 externally except on the mid-lobe of the lower lip ; limb "35 in. wide. 

 Style glabrous or, when young, sparingly hirsute ; ovary villous. 

 Nutlets white, smooth, hispid at the apex. Benth. in Wall. PL As. 

 Ear. II. 12, in Lab. Gen. & Sp. 648, and in DC. Prodr. XII. 551 {ijartly) ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 11. 986 {partly) ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 697 ; 

 Prain Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. III. 261. 



x\ndam:ans : Port Blair, not uncommon. — Distrib. Indo-China. 



This species is very closely related to G. Scortechinii, from which it differs mainly 

 in its rather smaller white flowers and its less hirsute or quite glabrous style. It has 

 not yet been collected in any of the Malayan provinces, but having regard to the fact 

 that G. Scortechinii extends northwards to Tenasserim, where G. oblongum is common, 

 and thus invades the area in which G. oblongum occurs, it is not impossible that this 

 species may yet be met with in the northern part of the Malayan Peninsula ; it seems 

 therefore advisable to give it a place in these Materials. 



5. GoMPHOSTEMMA CuETisii, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LIX. ii. 

 315 (1890). A coarse perennial herb, 3 to 4 ft. high. Stems rather 

 weak, flexuous, ascending, scabrid. Leaves opposite, the pairs rather 

 remote, herbaceous, dark-green, hirsute above, adpressed-tomentose 

 beneath, oblong-ovate, acute ; base very shortly cuneate ; margin 

 denticulate ; 3 to 5 in. long, 2 to 2-75 in. wide ; petiole 1-25 to 4-5 in. 

 long, adpressed-tomentose. Floioers in many-flowered lax axillary 

 cymes; bracts narrow-ovate, long-acuminate, entire, reddish, -4 to '6 in. 

 long. Calyx -5 in. long, smooth, glabrous within, reddish ; teeth lan- 

 ceolate-subulate from a short wade base, longer than the tube. Corolla 

 w^iite, 1 in. long, distinctly incurved, puberulous externally ; limb -3 in. 



