Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 741 



long-cuneate at base ; margins doubly serrate ; upper surface sprinkled 

 with pale multicellular hairs, lower glabrous except for the red multi- 

 cellular hairs on the nerves and midrib ; 6 to 10 in. long, 1-75 to 2-25 

 in. broad ; main nerves 16 to 20 pairs ; petiole 1 in. long or less, hairy. 

 Flowers solitary on a slender hairy 4 in. long peduncle. Calyx-lohes 

 lanceolate, acuminate, "25 in. long,' recurved, at length covered densely 

 with red multicellular hairs. Corolla blue, 1-5 in. long ; tube narrowed 

 at the base, dilated upwards, broad, sparingly hairy ; lobes rounded, 

 the lower ones longer than the upper. Stamens in 2 subequal pairs, 

 half as long as the corolla-tube ; filaments attached close to the base, 

 sinuate. Style stout ; stigma capitate. Capsule 1'5 in. long, subcylin- 

 dric, thick, -125 in. broad, glabrous. 



Pebak: at Bujong Malacca, Bidley 9779. 



5. DiDissANDEA ATBOCYANEA, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. x\s. Soc. 

 No. 43, 26 (1905). Steyn woody, about 6 in. high. Leaves crowded at 

 the top of the stem, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, inaequilateral at the 

 base ; margins strongly serrate ; black when dry ; upper surface sprinkled 

 with conical processes formed by the pushing in of the leaf from the 

 under surface, each process bearing a short pale hair ; lower surface 

 punctate and marked with the mouths of the intrusions, glabrous 

 except for the nerves and reticulations, which are covered with rufous 

 hairs ; 4 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; petiole winged to the base, 

 covered with multicellular hairs. Flowers solitary on 3 in. long 

 peduncles covered with red hairs. Calyx-lohes oblong ovate, glabres- 

 cent or with red hairs, '125 in. long. Corolla deep purple with almost 

 black mouth, nearly 2 in. long ; tube shortly narrow^ed at base, broadly 

 cylindric above, pubescent ; lobes short, rounded, the lower lip the 

 longer. Stamens 4 ; filaments slender. Caiisule glabrous, cylindric, 

 curved, 1 to 2 in. long. 



Perak : at Bujong Malacca, iJi^Ze?/, Curtis 3298; Scortechini 368, 

 1896 ; at Gunong Batu Putih, Wray 310. 



6. DiDissANDEA LATiSEPALA, Eidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 

 503 (1895). Stem short, woody. Leaves crowded at the top of the 

 stem, oblong-oblanceolate, unequal at base ; margins crenate-dentate ; 

 surfaces sparingly hispid, red ; midrib and nerves beneath covered with 

 red hairs ; 7 in. long, 2 in. broad ; petiole 1 in. long. Floivers few on a 

 6 in. long hispid peduncle. Ca/^a;-lobes ovate, -125 in. long, glabrous. 

 Corolla purple (?), 1 in. long, glabrous ; tube cylindric, dilated upwards ; 

 lobes short, rounded. Stamens 4 ; filaments linear ; anthers subglobose. 

 Ovary glabrous ; stigma clubbed. Capsule short, -5 in. long, thick, fusi- 

 form. Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 26. 



Legeh : Machado. 



