774 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



very short and slender, -25 in. long, umbelled, brown-tomentose ; bracts 

 lanceolate, obtuse ; flowers few, very small, very shortly pedicelled. 

 Calyx-loheB lanceolate, brown-tomentose, as long as the corolla-tube. 

 Corolla hardly '25 in. across, white ; lobes oblong, obtuse, equal, not 

 bilabiate. Stamens 2 ; filaments sigmoid, thick ; anthers rounded, ovoid. 

 Style longer than stamens ; stigma capitate. Capsule -5 in. long, 

 cylindric, scabrid, rather thick, straight. Didymocarpus regularis, 

 Eidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 515. 

 Kedah : Lankawi Islands, Curtis. 



9. Paeabcea polita, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 

 69 (1905). Stemless. Leaves in a rosette, ovate, crenate, obtuse ; base 

 rounded ; above deep shining green, beneath ochreous tomentose, with 

 nerves and nervules reticulate ; 1 to 8 in. long, 4 to 4-5 in. wide ; petiole 

 4 in. long. Peduncle over 1 ft. long, slender, with brown ochreous fur; 

 branches few, 3 in. long, umbellate ; bracts linear, oblong obtuse, 

 brown-woolly ; pedicels "25 in. long. Calyx-\ohe% linear, green, -125 in. 

 long. Corolla sub-bilobed, -5 in. across, white, back tinted pink ; lobes 

 rounded. Stamens 2 ; filaments thickened at the base ; anthers orange, 

 reniform. Style stout, pink at base, white above ; stigma capitate. 



Peeak : Bujong Malacca, Curtis 8214 part. 



Ridley thinks it is perhaps a hybrid between P. capitata and P. vulpina. 



10. Paeabcea vulpina, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 



69 (1905). Stem 2 in. long, thick, covered with red wool. Leaves 

 elliptic, rounded at each end, crenulate, above sprinkled with pale 

 multicellular hairs, beneath covered densely with branched rufous hairs 

 arranged stellately ; nerves beneath strongly elevated, 6 pairs ; reticu- 

 lations elevated ; 1*5 to 3 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide ; petiole 1 to 3 in. 

 long, densely red-woolly. Pedimcles slender, 6 to 8 in. long, red, with 

 a few branched hairs ; branches slender, 1 to 3 in. long, trichotomous ; 

 bracts very small, linear, obtuse, glabrous. Calyx-lohe^ narrow, linear, 

 glabrous. Corolla white, "25 in. across ; lobes rounded, subequal. 

 Stamens 2 ; anthers very large, reniform. Style short, thick. Capsule 

 cylindric, narrow, glabrous. 



Peeak : Bujong Malacca, Curtis 3214 ; Hot Springs, Ipoh, Curtis 

 3132. On limestone rocks. 



11. Paeabcea laxa, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 



70 (1905). Stem very short, woody, thickly brown-tomentose. Leaves 

 obovate, coarsely crenate-serrate, narrowed at the base into the winged 

 petiole ; 3 to 7 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide ; dull green, densely hairy, 

 tomentose on both surfaces. Peduncle slender, 5 to 6 in. long, termin- 

 ated by a much-branched umbel of slender branches 3 in. long ; pedicels 



