Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. Ill 



above grey-arachnoid, beneath white-arachnoid with raised nerves. 

 Flowers numerous, blue ; bracts leafy, -25 to -5 in. long. CaZ^a;-lobes 

 lanceolate subulate, arachnoid, -125 in. long. Corolla -5 in. wide ; lobes 

 rounded. Stamens very short ; anthers pear-shaped. Style much 

 longer than stamens, straight. Capsule fusiform, acuminate, '5 in. long. 

 Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 73. 



Selangoe : limestone rocks at Kuala Lumpur, Eelsall, Ridley 

 1975, 8551. 



3. BcEA ciEEULEscENS, Eidley in Joui-n. Str. Br. E. x4s. Soc. No. 43, 

 73 (1905). "Whole plant over 2 ft. tall ; upper part of stem stout, 

 grooved, woolly. Leaves oblanceolate, subobtuse, narrowed to the base ; 

 above dark green, densely pubescent, beneath ochreous covered with 

 felted wool ; 6 to 8 in. long, 1-25 to 2 in. wide ; petiole winged to the 

 base or not. Panicle 2 ft. or more long, large ; branches whorled, yellow- 

 woolly ; bracts below leaf-like, above linear, narrow, yellow. Calyx- 

 lobes lanceolate, woolly. CoroZZa-tube very short; limb -75 in. across, 

 pale blue, upper lobe shorter ; lobes rounded ; lower lip unequally lobed, 

 longer, central lobe longest. Stamens 2 ; anthers reniform, conic, 

 large; filaments short, curved. Style bent on the cylindric ovary, 

 pubescent ; stigma large, discoid. Capsule thick, glabrous, '75 in. 

 long. 



Peeak : Sungei Siput, C^irtis 3137 ; Kinta, King's Collector 7175, 

 7062, 8276. 



4. BcEA ELEGANS, Eidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 522 (1895). 

 Stem about 6 in. long, woody, decumbent, '125 in. thick, arachnoid. 

 Leaves whorled in threes, "5 to 3 in. apart, lanceolate acute, narrowed 

 to the base ; 1 to 2-5 in. long, '25 to -5 in. wide ; above grey-arachnoid, 

 beneath cinnamon-arachnoid. Peduncles from the upper axils, slender, 

 glabrous, 6 in. long ; cyme terminal, 3 in. long, with few slender 

 branches. Calyx very short ; lobes lanceolate, glabrous. Corolla -5 in. 

 across, with broad rounded lobes, white-pink in the mouth. Anthers 

 oblong. Style rather short ; stigma clubbed. Capsule 1 in. long, 

 glabrous, linear, acuminate. Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc- 

 No. 43, 74. 



Kedah : Gunong Jerai on granite precipices, Eidley. 



5. B(EA LANATA, Eidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 520 (1895). 

 Stem short, stout, woody, 2 in. long, curved, with white wool. Leaves 

 crowded, lanceolate acuminate, narrowed into the petiole ; arachnoid 

 above, densely woolly beneath ; 3 in. long, -75 in. wide ; petiole woolly, 

 3 in. long, winged to base. Panicles few, branched, axiUary, dense, 

 1 to 5 in. long. Calyx as long as the corolla-tube ; lobes lanceolate, 

 woolly outside. Corolla thin, -5 to -75 in. across, glabrous, rose-pink ; 



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