754 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



pubescent. Leaves alternate, distant, lanceolate, inaequilateral, acute, 

 serrate, narrowed to the base ; velvety above, pubescent beneath ; 

 5 in. long, 1-5 in. wide or smaller ; petiole distinct, pubescent, -5 in. long. 

 Peduncles from the upper axils 1-5 in. long, pubescent ; flowers crowded, 

 pedicellate ; bract linear, nearly -25 in. long. Calyx campanulate ; lobes 

 not free to the base, linear, -125 in. long, pubescent. Corollahlvie, 1 in. 

 long ; tube slender, enlarged upwards ; lobes short, rounded ; filaments 

 long slender. Ovary elongate cylindric ; stigma obconic. Capsule 

 cylindric, glabrous, 1*5 in. long. Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. 

 No. 43, 41. 



Kbdah : on Lanka wi Island at Gunong Chinchang, Curtis 2568. 



20. DiDYMOCAEPUs ALBA, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 

 41 (1905). Steyn woody, creeping, ascending, hairy-pubescent. Leaves 

 crowded towards the top ; lanceolate, acute at base ; 2 in. long, -25 to 

 •5 in. wide, softly densely hairy on both sides ; petiole densely hairy, -5 in. 

 long. Peduncles short, -5 in. or less long, 1-flowered, densely hairy. 

 Calyx-lohes free to base, linear, acuminate, long-hairy, "125 in. long. 

 Corolla quite white, "5 in. long, base cylindric, gradually dilated upwards, 

 hairy ; lobes short, rounded, subequal. Stamens 2 ; filaments rather 

 short, filiform ; staminodes 3, filiform, clubbed, shorter. Ovary pubes- 

 cent. Capsule -75 in. long, curved, acuminate, splitting along the upper 

 surface, glabrous. 



Peeak : at Bujong Malacca, Curtis 3299 ; Bidley 9780 ; Scortechini. 



Vae. major, Eidley. Stems taller, over 1 ft. high. Leaves more 

 remote and less hairy. Peduncles longer, 1 in. in flower, 1*25 in. in 

 fruit. Corolla 1 in. long. 



Peeak : at Gunong Bubu, 4500 ft., Wray 3209. 



Sect. III. Eeptantbs. 



21. DiDYMOCAEPus EEPTANs, Jack in Mai. Misc. I. pt. ii. 3 (1820), 

 and in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV. 35. Stems creeping, 6 in. or more long, 

 villous. Leaves opposite ; ovate or elliptic, blunt at apex, narrowed or 

 rounded at base ; upper surface sprinkled with villous hairs, lower more 

 hairy ; margins obscurely crenulate ; "75 to 3 in. long, -5 to -75 in. broad. 

 Peduncles slender, subterminal, 1-flowered, hairy, 1 in. long ; bract very 

 small ; pedicel -25 in. long. Calyx-lohes, linear, villous, '125 in. long. 

 Corolla '5 in. long, pubescent, white with purple and yellow streaks in the 

 mouth ; tube trumpet- shaped ; lobes rather large, rounded. Stamens 2 ; 

 filaments far included, filiform ; staminodes very short. Ovary cylin- 

 dric ; style slender ; stigma discoid. Capstde 1 in. long, slender, scabrid, 

 splitting nearly to the apex. Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. 55 ; Spreng. 



