764 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



inaequilateral ; -5 to 1"5 in. long, -25 to 1 in. wide ; above silky pubes- 

 cent, beneath dotted with swollen hair-bases ; nerves about 6 pairs, 

 elevated, hairy with appressed hairs. Peduncles slender, erect, purple, 

 with silky appressed white hairs, 2 to 3 in. tall, subterminal ; flowers 



1 to 2, terminal, very shortly pedicelled ; bract linear, purple. Calyx- 

 lobes linear, purple, pubescent. Corolla -25 in. long, with a short 

 broad tube, pubescent, purplish-white, hardly bilabiate ; lobes rounded, 

 pinkish white. Stamens 2 ; filaments slender, short, filiform. Ovary 

 slender, cylindric ; style longer than stamens ; stigma discoid. Capsule 

 •lb in. long, terete, upcurved, splitting along the upper edge, minutely 

 pubescent. 



Selangoe : the Gap — Semangko Pass, alt. 3000 ft., Curtis 3782 ; 

 Burn-Murdoch. 



Affinity Doubtful. 



46. DiDYMOCAEPus LiLACiNA, Eidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 

 330 (1893). Stem 12 to 15 in. long, entirely leafy, brown-pubescent. 

 Leaves alternate, spreading, lanceolate, crenate dentate, pubescent, 

 dark green ; 4 in. long, 1 in. wide ; petiole 1 in. long. Pedicels numer- 

 ous, rising from the petiole near the leaf-blade, slender, -25 in. long, 

 pubescent. Calyx-Xohe^ very short, lanceolate, hispid. Corolla campanu- 

 late, rosy- violet, sparingly pubescent ; lobes oblong, rounded. Stamens 



2 ; filaments thick, with slender base ; anthers reniform. Style shorter 

 than the corolla, pubescent ; stigma capitate. Capsule -65 in. long, 

 rather thick, cylindric, with a short beak. Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. 

 As. Soc. No. 43, 57. 



Pahang : Tahan Eiver, Eidley 2165. 



5. Chieita, Buch. — Ham. 



Herbs or slender shrubs. Leaves opposite, often unequal or 

 whorled or alternate ; elliptic or ovate. Pedimcles axillary, 1- or more 

 flowered; bracts free or connate, small or large. Calyx 5-lobed, with 

 acute lobes, usually large. Corolla infundibuliform or tubular-ventri- 

 cose, blue or white, 2-lipped ; lobes rounded. Stamens 2 ; filaments 

 filiform, geniculate ; anthers rounded, connivent, often hairy. Disk 

 annular. Ovary cylindric, linear ; style usually long ; stigma ovate or 

 narrow, bifid. Capsule long, cylindric. — Disteib. Species about 26, 

 in India, China, and Malaya. 



Bracts free : — 

 Stems 2 ft. high ; leaves ovate ; corolla 1 in. long, claret- 

 coloured .. .. .. .. .. 1. C. elata. 



Stems under 2 ft. high ; corolla blue or violet, rarely white: — 



