Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



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Calyx 3-lobed 

 Stamens 4 

 Capsules or pyxidia ovoid or ellipsoid : — 

 Stamens 2 : — 

 Sepals free to the base : — 



Stem very short; calyx-lobes linear 

 Stem elongate ; calyx-lobes ovate 

 Sepals connate half-way up in a campanulate calyx . . 

 Stamens 4 : — 

 Fruit with dehiscence circumscissile 

 Fruit splitting irregularly ; — 

 Herbs : — 

 Leaf solitary ; flowers minute 

 Leaves several alternate ; flowers large 

 Shrubs leafy : — 

 Sepals free to the base ; flowers small 

 Sepals connate in a tubular shortly lobed calyx ; 

 flowers large . 

 Fruit indehiscent, baccate ; stamens 2 



10. Phyllodoea. 



11. BOEICA. 



12. OKCHADOCAnPA. 



13. Lepadanthos. 



14. Ehyncogi.ossum. 



15. Epithema. 



16. Monophyllaea. 



17. Stadranthera. 



18. Rhynchotechdm. 



19. Cyrtandromoea. 



20. Cyrtandra. 



1. JESCHYNANTHUS, Jack. 



Epiphytes or rock-plants, with slender creeping or erect half-woody 

 stems. Leaves opposite or whorled, fleshy or coriaceous, entire, ovate 

 or lanceolate. Flowers large, usually showy, red yellow or green, in 

 axillary or terminal heads, pedicelled. Bracts ovate or lanceolate, 

 small. Calyx tubular or campanulate, subentire or more or less lobed, 

 or sepals free to the base. Corolla tubular, curved, dilated above, 

 shortly 2 -lipped ; upper lip of 2 lobes erect ; lower of 3 lobes deflexed. 

 Stamens 4 perfect, didynamous, usually exsert ; anthers connivent in 

 pairs ; loculi oblong, parallel. Ovary superior, with a short cup-shaped 

 disk at the base ; style as long as stamens or shorter ; stigma dilate or 

 peltate. Capsule long-cylindric ; base usually empty and narrower (gyno- 

 phore), 2-valved loculicidally. Seeds innumerable, minute, oblong, 

 rugose, with one or more hyaline scabrid hairs from near the hilum, 

 and one from the apex. — -Disteib. Species about 64, in India, 

 Malaya and Hongkong ; chiefly Malayan. 



Seeds with a plume of hairs at one end, a single hair at the 

 other (§ Polytrichium) ; sepals free or very nearly so : — 



Leaves pink beneath . . . . . . . . 1. ^. Motleyi. 



Leaves green, with transverse purple bars beneath . . 2. ^. marmorata. 



Seeds with a single hair at each end (§ Haplotrichium) : — 

 Sepals free or very nearly so : — 

 Leaves in whorls of 4 or 5 . . . . . . 3. ^. speciosa. 



Leaves crowded towards the ends of the stems, opposite ; 



sepals glabrous . . . . . . .. i. JE. stenophylla. 



Leaves opposite in pairs : — 



