740 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Corolla pink. Capsule slender, cylindric, hispid, 1-5 in. long. D. sp., 

 Eidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 502. 

 Johoee: at Gunong Panti, Bidley 4175. 



2. DiDissANDEA FEUTESCENS, Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan. V. i. 67, 

 t. VII (1883). A shrub with woody stems, 3 to 4 ft. high ; stems 

 appressed hairy. Leaves opposite, in alternate pairs, distant ; elliptic- 

 lanceolate to oblanceolate, subacute at apex, cuneately narrowed at base ; 

 margins minutely crenulate; upper surface sprinkled with fine hairs, 

 lower with appressed tawny silky hairs, especially on the nerves and 

 reticulations ; 7 to 9 in. long, 3 to 4 in. broad ; main nerves about 12 to 

 20 pair ; petiole 1'5 to 3 in. long, hairy. Cymes axillary, sessile, with 

 short hairy branches 1 in. long ; flowers 1 to 3 to each branch. Calyx- 

 lobes red, hairy, narrow, lanceolate. Corolla white, 1*5 in. long; tube 

 funnel-shaped, pubescent; lobes rounded. Anthers ovoid; filaments 

 curved in the middle. Ovary glabrous ; style pilose ; stigma sub-bilobed. 

 Capsule slender, cylindric, 3 in. long, glabrous, longitudinally ribbed. 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 355 ; Eidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXXII. 502, and in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 21. 

 Didymocarpus frutescens, Jack in Malay Misc. 1, part 2, 5, in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. XIV. 39, and in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. 58 (1844) ; Wall. 

 Cat. 780 ; E. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Ear. 119, and in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2, 

 XIII. 165 ; DC. Prodr. IX. 265 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 726. Henckelia 

 frutescens, Spreng. Syst., cura post. 13. 



Penang: WallichlSO; Curtis 828; Descham23s. Peeak : at Tapa, Wray 

 826, at Waterfall Hill, Wray 1723 ; Bidley 2912 ; Scortechini ; near Kinta 

 Eiver, King's Collector 837. Dindings : at Lumut, Bidley 7171. Ma- 

 lacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3856 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1222. — Disteib. Sumatra. 



3. DiDissANDEA HiETA, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 

 28 (1905). Stem woody, 3 in. long. Leaves oblanceolate, oblique, 

 acuminate at apex, narrowed to the base ; margins serrate ; upper sur- 

 face sprinkled with pale multicellular hairs, especially long on the 

 marginal teeth ; lower glabrous except on the midrib and nerves, which 

 are covered with rather long multicellular hairs. Scape 3 to 4 in. long, 

 hairy with catenulate multicellular hairs. Calyx-\oheQ '25 in. long, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, very hairy. Corolla violet with a darker centre ; 

 tube 1 in. long, broad-cylindric, sprinkled with multicellular hairs ; lobes 

 large, rounded, '5 in. long, glabrous. Stamens 2 pairs, unequal. Stigma 

 capitate. 



Peeak : at Bujong Malacca, Bidley. 



4. DIDISSANDEA sEEEATiFOLiA, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. 

 No. 43, 25 (1905.) Stem woody, 4 to 5 in. high, covered in the upper 

 part with red hairs. Leaves opposite, oblanceolate, acuminate at apex. 



