Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 775 



slender, '125 in. long ; flowers numerous ; bracts very small. Calyx 

 shortly 5-cleft ; lobes lanceolate, short, green. Corolla -125 in. across, 

 white or tinted rosy ; upper lobes broad, oblong, recurved ; lower lip 

 shortly trifid ; central lobe broadest. Filavients short, swollen in the 

 middle ; anthers yellow, reniform. Skjle longer than stamens. Capsule 

 linear, cylindric, straight, -5 in. long, tipped with the elongate style. 

 Kedah : Lankawi at Kwah, Curtis 2571. 



12. Parabcea Curtisii, Eidleyin Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 



70 (1905). Stemless. Leaves oblong, elliptic, crenate, obtuse ; 6 in. 

 long, 2-5 in. wide ; above sprinkled with hairs ; petiole rufous-hairy, 

 1*5 in. long. Scapes 10 in. long, rufous-tomentose, bearing an umbel 

 of 4 or 5 branches at the top about 2 in. long ; bracts at base of umbel 

 oblong, obtuse, -25 in. long ; pedicels short, rufous-tomentose. Calyx- 

 lobe's, linear, oblong, obtuse, hairy, -125 in. long. Corolla -5 in. across, 

 white ; buds tinted pink ; tube very short ; limb bilobed ; upper lobes 

 short, rounded, lower lobes larger. Stamens : filaments very short, 

 thick, curved; anthers reniform, triangular. Style much longer than 

 stamens, bent. Ovary cylindric ; stigma wide, discoid. Capsule 

 (unripe) cylindric, acuminate, straight. 



Peeak : Bujong Malacca, Curtis 3214. 



13. Paeabcea obovata, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 48, 



71 (1905). Stem short. Leaves crowded at the top, thin, obovate, 

 blunt ; base cuneate ; 3 in. long, 1*5 in. wide ; thinly arachnoid on both 

 surfaces, beneath yellowish ; petiole "25 in. long. Peduncle slender, 

 3 to 6 in. long, glabrous ; branches few, terminal ; bracts narrowly 

 oblong, obtuse. Calyx-\ohe^ oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Corolla -25 in. 

 across ; lower lip longer than upper one ; lobes oblong, rounded. 

 Stamens 2 ; anthers reniform ; filaments short and thick. Style short 

 and thick ; stigma capitate. 



Kedah : Lankawi, Gunong Chinchang, Curtis. One specimen 

 only seen. 



9. B(EA, Commers. 



Herbs or shrublets with a woody stem. Leaves opposite or 

 whorled, generally on the back. Peduncles axillary, usually elongate, 

 laxly or compactly cymose or panicled ; bracts small ; flowers large or 

 small, blue or white. Calyx of 5 narrow sepals. Corolla widely 

 campanulate, with a short tube usually distinctly 2-lipped ; lobes ovate, 

 obtuse. Stamens 2, perfect, with short curved thick filaments ; anthers 

 ovoid, coherent ; cells ovoid. Disk absent. Ovary sessile ; style as long, 

 glabrous above ; stigma small, capitate. Capsule slender, cylindric or 



