766 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



trumpet-shaped ; upper lobes short, rounded, lower ones ovate obtuse, 

 longer, median one longest, elliptic, all violet with darker streaks and a 

 patch of yellow glandular hairs in the mouth. Stamens 2, exsert ; 

 anthers yellow, ovoid, vdth a thickened connective, ciliate at the base, 

 with a black spot on each anther ; filaments attached to the mouth of 

 the tube. Ovary pubescent; stigma obliquely bifid ; lobes linear, obtuse. 

 Capsule terete, acute, 1'5 in. long, minutely pubescent. Eidley in Journ. 

 Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 59. 



Kedah : Lankawi Islands, Curtis 2570. — Disteib. S. Siam, on 

 limestone rocks. 



4. Chieita seeicea, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 

 59 (1905). Herb, 3 to 6 in. tall, simple or branched, woolly. Leaves 

 alternate, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, base unequal, cuneate ; 2 to 3 in. 

 long, -5 in. wide ; margins entire ; both sides densely covered with short 

 silky hairs ; petiole -25 to 1 in. long. Floioers 1 to 2, axillary ; pedicels 

 •5 in. or less, silky-hairy, ebracteolate. Calyx-lohe^ narrow, linear 

 acuminate, densely silky-hairy. Corolla blue, rarely white ; tube half 

 as long again as sepals ; lobes broader, unequal, oblong, all hairy. 

 Style slender, glabrous ; stigma bilobed, lobes elliptic. Capsule cylin- 

 dric, 1"5 in. long, silky-hairy. > 



Peeak : Ipoh, limestone rocks, Curtis 3181. 



Vae. Scortechinii, Eidley, I.e. 



Capsule shorter, -5 in. fong, and thicker, -125 in. through, splitting 

 longitudinally into 2 valves. Corolla-ivhe straight ; lobes of lower lip 

 broad. 



Peeak : Scortechini 102, 112. 



5. Chieita eupesteis, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 



59 (1905). A herb, about 4 to 10 in. tall. Stem simple or branched, 

 glabrescent. Leaves opposite or alternate, thin, ovate obtuse ; 1 to 3 in. 

 long, -5 to 2-5 in. wide; above sprinkled with multicellular hairs. 

 Floioers axillary, 1 to 2, sessile, on a peduncle -5 in. long, hairy, 

 enclosed in a green cupular bilobed bract -5 in. long ; edges recurved and 

 covered with multicellular hairs. Calyx-\ohe^ narrowly lanceolate, 

 hairy, nearly -5 in. long. Corolla-tVibe as long as the bract, 

 hairy, blue, little longer than the calyx-lobes, rounded. Ovary and 

 style slender, hairy. Capsule cylindric, slender, curved, 2*5 in. long. 



Kedah : Lankawi, on damp rocks, Curtis 2120. 



6. Chieita Glasgovii, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 



60 (1905). A weak herb, 1 ft. tall, branched. Leaves ovate obtuse, 

 thin ; 1 to 3 in. long, -75 to 2 in. wide ; base rounded, retuse ; nerves 

 5 pairs, alternate ; above sprinkled with multicellular hairs, beneath 

 paler with a few hairs on the nerves, otherwise nearly glabrous ; petiole 



