768 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Cymes few-flowered, from the axils of the last 3 or 4 leaves, collected in 

 a terrainal inflorescence 1 in. long ; bracts oblong or lanceolate ; pedicels 

 slender, about -2 in. long. Calyx deeply 5-fid, scarcely "5 in. long ; 

 lobes ovate acute ; tube obscurely 5-angled, glabrous. Corolla 

 glabrous ; tube nearly -5 in. long, white, curved ; limb pink, bilabiate, 

 upper lip erect, 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes rounded. Stamens 

 included ; filaments filiform, spirally twisted, glabrous ; anthers ad- 

 hering at the apex, with a thick connective ; cells oblong, divergent at 

 base. Ovary oblong, puberulous ; style as long as ovary ; stigma 

 capitate, sub-bilobed ; placentae 2-lamellate ; the lamellae densely ovule- 

 bearing. Capsule ovate-oblong, -3 to -5 in. long, as long as the per- 

 sistent calyx. 



Stamf.se States : Pungah, Curtis. 



7. LoxocARPus, Br. 

 Herbs, scapigerous. Leaves ovate or oblong, petiolate, pubes- 

 cent. Flowers 1 or more in a peduncled cyme, blue. Calyx-lohes 

 5, free to base or nearly so. Corolla campanulate, small, hardly bila- 

 biate ; lobes rounded. Stamens 2 ; filaments short, thick, sinuate ; 

 anthers reniform, large. Ovary obloag ; style longer than stamens ; 

 stigma capitate. Capside follicular, conic, dehiscing along the upper 

 edge. — DiSTRiB. Species 7, of the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. 



Flowers 1 or 2 on slender silky scapes 2 to 2-5 in. long . . 1. L. semitorta. 



Flowers few or numerous on dichotomously branched viscidly 



hairy peduncles : — 



Peduncles 2 to 4 in. long ; flowers few or numerous ; capsule 



ovoid . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. L. incana. 



Peduncles 6 to 12 in. long; flowers numerous ; capsule cornicu- 



late . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. L. ccerulea. 



1. LoxocAEPus SEMiTOETA, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. 

 No. 43, 61 (1905). Stemless. Leaves numerous; ovate or oblong, obtuse, 

 rather thick, base broad ; -3 to 1 in. long, -25 to -75 in. wide ; above 

 green silky, beneath with thick red-woolly raised nerves ; petiole 

 1 to 2-5 in. long, thick, red-woolly. Scapes slender, 2 to 2-5 in. long, 

 silky ; flowers 1 or 2. Calyx-lohQQ lanceolate, hairy, -125 in. long. 

 Corolla "5 in. long ; tube broad, oblique, pale blue with violet streaks in 

 the throat ; lobes very short and indistinctly marked. Stamens : fila- 

 ments short, curved ; anthers reniform, purple. Ovary and style hairy, 

 shorter than corolla, larger than stamens. Capsule "25 in. long, horn- 

 shaped, acuminate with the persistent style ; base swollen. Didymo- 

 carpus semitorta, Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan V. i. 99, and in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 352. 



