726 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



wide. Style glabrous ; ovary glabrous. Nutlets white, glabrous, 

 punctulate. Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. III. 266. 



Penang: Curtis 1310! Peeak: Lariit, Scortechini 924:1 Wray 12SS\ 



18. Cymaeia, Benth. 



Shrubs. Flowers small, in lax, many-flowered, peduncled, raceme- 

 like cymes, all axillary, or the upper ones forming a terminal thyrsoid 

 panicle. Calyx erect, 10-nerved, the intermediate nerves weaker than 

 the other 5, equally 5-toothed ; the tube in fruit urceolate ; the throat 

 within naked or with a few setose hairs. Corolla-tuhe straight, exserted ; 

 limb 2-lipped ; lower lip 3-lobed, spreading, the mid-lobe larger than the 

 lateral ; upper lip arched, erect. Stamens 4, ascending under the upper 

 lip, didynamous, the upper pair shorter ; anthers connivent, the cells 

 divaricate. Dish equal, entire. Style-arms unequal, the upper very 

 short. Nutlets subglobose or obovoid, rugosely pitted ; hilum very 

 large, lateral. — Disteib. Species 3, in Indo-China and Malaya. 



Cymaeia dichotoma, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 2080 (1828). A shrub, 

 2 to 3 ft. high. Stems and branches faintly 4-angled, finely pubescent. 

 Leaves opposite, membranous, dark-green and almost glabrous except 

 on the pubescent nerves above, paler, glandular, and closely grey- 

 pubescent beneath, ovate or rhomboid, acute or subacute, rarely acumi- 

 nate ; base cuneate, decurrent on the petiole, entire ; margin elsewhere 

 distinctly to faintly crenate or sometimes subentire ; 1-5 to 4 in. long, 

 1 to 2-25 in. wide ; petiole -25 to '75, rarely 1 in. long, finely pubescent. 

 Floivers in once, or sometimes twice, dichotomously branching cymes 

 with terminal flowers and 6 to 12 secundly arranged flowers on each 

 branch ; the main peduncles "5 to 1 in. long, finely pubescent ; the 

 flower-bearing branches '6 to 1*5 in. long ; bracts under branches 

 spathulate-acute to lanceolate, "1 to "2 in. long ; bracteoles subulate, 

 •05 in. long, finely pubescent. Calyx in flower campanulate, -08 in. 

 long, in fruit urceolate, -15 in. long, glandular and pubescent, especially 

 on the nerves externally, within sparingly beset with white setose hairs 

 above the constriction ; teeth 5, equal, triangular, as long as the portion 

 of tube above the constriction ; pedicels slender, finely pubescent, -05 in. 

 long. Corolla yellow, "16 in. long, uniformly finely pubescent exter- 

 nally ; tube distinctly exserted ; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, mid-lobe 

 wide-oblong ; upper lip erect, oblong ; the apex notched. Filaments 

 ascending under upper lip, included. Nutlets obovoid, -03 in. long, 

 wide-reticulate on back, the upper third glandular ; the apex beset with 

 very short white hairs. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. I. 64, in Lab. Gen. 

 & Sp. 705, and in DC. Prodr. XII. 603 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 992 ; Hook, 

 f. PL Br. Ind. IV. 705 ; Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI. ii. 522. 



