Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 733 



tube a little over 1 in. long, dilated upwards, curved ; lobes rounded, 

 pubescent, green with brown bars in the mouth. Stamens 1-5 in. long ; 

 filaments hairy. Style hairy; stigma bilobed. Capsule 6 in. long, 

 rather thick. Seed oblong, pustular ; plume -5 in. long. N. E. Brown 

 in Gard. Chron. XVIII. 787 (1882) ; Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan. V. i. 

 38 : Eidley in Jom-n. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 500, and in Journ. Str. Br. E. 

 As. Soc. No. 43, 13. ^. zehrina, Van Houtte Cat. (1851). 



Kedah : at Gunong Eaya, Langkawi Islands, Curtis 2142. Penakg : 

 Government Hill, Curtis 1700; Bidley. — Distrib. Bm-ma (Mergui), 

 Siam. 



3. ^scHYNANTHus sPEciosA, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4320 (1847). A 

 shrubby plant, with erect rather stout stems about 1 ft. high. Leaves 

 fleshy, in whorls of 4 to 5, lanceolate, acute ; margins smooth or undu- 

 late ; 3 to 6 in. long, -75 to 1-75 in. broad ; petiole -125 to -25 in. long. 

 Floivers large, showy, subterminal, clustered 10 or more together; 

 bracts Hnear-lanceolate, hairy, -25 in. long ; pedicels slender, -5 in. long. 

 Ca7^.z-lobes linear, free to the base, pubescent, -Sin. long. Corolla-tuhQ 

 3 in. long, narrow-cylindric at base, enlarged and curved above ; lobes 

 rounded, all pubescent. Stamens o in. long, longer than the coroUa-tube ; 

 filaments slender, slightly pubescent. Style stout, pubescent. Paxt. 

 Mag. XIV. 199 ; Fl. des Serres Ser. I. t. 267 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 718 ; Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan. V. i. 33 ; Eidley in Jom-n. Linn. Soc. 

 XXXII. 499, and in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 14. 



Peeak : Bruseh, near Bidor, W. G. Napier. Selangoe : Bukit 

 Hitam, Kelsall ; Tomoh, Machado. — Disteib. Java, Sumatra {Forbes 

 2526), Borneo. 



4. ^scHYNANTHUs STENOPHYLLA, Eidley, n. sp. Stem slender, 1 to 

 2 ft. long ; intemodes "5 in. long. Leaves fleshy, glabrous, crowded 

 towards the top of the stems ; linear lanceolate, subacute, sHghly nar- 

 rowed at base ; 2 in. long, -25 in. broad. Floivers soUtary in the axils 

 of the leaves ; pedicels very short, angular, glabrous, "25 in. long. 

 Calyx-lobes linear, acute, glabrous, -125 in. long. Corolla (only one 

 bud seen) small, pubescent. Capsule papery, linear, cyhndric, 1 ft. 

 long. Disk annular. Seeds with a single long white hair -75 in. long. 



Peeak : at Goping Kinta, at 500 to 800 ft. elevation, found growing 

 on the hoUow branch of a large tree. King's ColUctor 4738. — Disteib. 

 Sumatra ? (i^or6es 2535). 



[^scHYNANTHUS STENOPHYLLA, Eidley, n. sp. Caulis gracilis, 30 ad 60 cm. longus, 

 1 ad 1"5 cm. intra nodos. Folia carnosa, glabra, versus apicem caulis congesta ; 

 lineari-lanceolata, subacuta, ad basin attenuata ; 5 cm. longa, 6 mm. lata. Flores in 

 axillis foliorum solitarii ; pedicelli brevissimi, angulares, glabri, 6 mm. longi. Calycis 

 lobi lineares, acuti, glabri, 3 mm. longi. Corolla parva, pubescens. Capsula chartacea, 



