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slender, 1 to 2 in. long, glabrous. Bract convolute, bilobed; lobes 

 ovate, hairy, 1 in. long. Galyx-lohe?, lanceolate acuminate, narrow, 

 hairy, -5 in. long. Gorolla-iMhe 1 in. long, minutely hairy, dark violet. 

 Capsule cylindric, curved, 3 in. long, glabrous. 



Pbeak : Waterloo near Kuala Kangsa, G. Robertson- Glasgoiu. 



Doubtful Species. 

 7. Chieita mollissima, Eidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 517 

 (1895). Nearly stemless. Leaves congested, lanceolate, acute, obscurely 

 minutely serrate, silvery-tomentose ; 6 to 8 in. long, 1-25 to 2 in. broad. 

 Flotoers pedicelled, drooping, axillary, few, handsome ; pedicels some- 

 what thick, woolly, 1 in. long. Galyx-lohe^ lanceolate, acuminate, 

 equal, -5 in. long, tomentose. Corolla funnel-shaped, more than 1 in. 

 long, oblong, obtuse ; the upper lobes short, rounded, violet, the lower 

 wider ; the tube white in the throat, with glandular hairs above the 

 anthers. Stamens 2 ; filaments broad, curved ; anthers broad, thick. 

 Pistil pubescent, emerald green, little exsert ; the ovary cylindric, 

 attenuated in the style; stigma 2-lobed, pubescent, decurved. Cai)side 



1 in. long, broad, thick, glabrous or pubescent. 



Siamese States : Pangah, Curtis 2944. 



6. Teteaphyllum, Griff. 

 Undershrubs ; stem elongate, with leaves crowded towards the apex. 

 Leaves opposite or in whorls of 4, nearly sessile, ovate, unequal-sided. 

 Cymes capitate or lax from the axils of the upper leaves ; bracts elliptic, 

 oblong or lanceolate. Calyx somewhat large, 5-partite, obscurely 

 2-lipped. Corolla widely funnel-shaped, more or less 2-lipped ; lobes 5, 

 subequal, ovate. Stamens 2, fertile ; filaments short, fiHform, often 

 spirally twisted ; anthers 2-celled ; apex submucronate ; cells oblong or 

 ellipsoid, parallel or divergent ; staminodes very minute. Ovary 

 ellipsoid, acute ; style linear ; stigma small, capitate, sub-bilobed ; 

 placentas parietal, 2-lamellate ; ovules very numerous. Capsule ovate 

 or lanceolate, dehiscing both loculicidally and septicidally ; having 



2 ribs united at the tip and the placentae split into 2 lamellge. Seeds 

 very minute, ellipsoid; testa reticulate. — Disteib. 2 species, one Indian, 

 the other of the Malay Peninsula. 



Teteaphyllum eoseum, Stapf ex Eidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXXII. 524 (1895). Leaves opposite, closely approximate, the end 

 ones subverticillate, usually in fours ; elliptic or obovate-elliptic, obtuse 

 at apex, narrowed at base ; crenate-denticulate ; above green, shining, 

 buUate, pilose ; beneath pale, punctulate, pilose on the nerves ; 2-5 

 to 3'5 in. long, 1-75 to 2-25 in. broad ; petiole -15 to "2 in. long. 



