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76 (1905). Stem slender, shrubby, branching, covered with ferruginous 

 tomentum. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate ; base cuneate, unequal ; 

 4 in. long, 1 to 1'25 in. wide ; above glabrous, beneath covered with 

 rusty wool ; nerves elevated, 11 pair. Peduncle 6 in. long, slender, 

 glabrous ; panicle umbellate, of 6 slender branches in a terminal whorl ; 

 branehlets glabrous, numerous, slender ; bracts very narrow, linear ; 

 flowers very small, numerous, white ; pedicels slender, -125 in. Calyx- 

 lobe's, lanceolate, glabrous, 5. Corolla very small, white ; tube very 

 short ; upper lobes subacute, lower ones oblong. Anthers large, reni- 

 form. Style shorter than anthers. Capsule very slender, cylindric, 

 •25 in. long, terminated by the slender style. 



Perak : Hot Springs at Ipoh and Sungei Siput, not common, 

 Curtis 3134 ; Kinta, King's Collector 7108. On limestone rocks. 



Doubtful Species. 



10. B(EA PATENS, Eidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 520 (1895). 

 Almost stemless. Leaves rosulate, oblong, obtuse, serrulate-crenu- 

 late, inaequilateral ; 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; upper surface 

 softly pubescent, lower pale ferruginous-tomentose ; petiole 1 in. long. 

 Peduncle stout, terete, 18 in. long, softly ferruginous-lanate ; branches 

 long, divaricate, 2-forked ; primary bracts oblong, -25 in. long, 

 secondary smaller ; cymules scorpioid, few-flowered ; flowers small, 

 white, "125 in. broad ; pedicels "06 in. long. Caly x-lohes, free to the 

 base, short, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla campanulate, glabrous ; 

 lobes 2 oblong-obtuse, 3 ovate-obtuse, shorter and broader. Stamens 

 with short slender curved filaments as long as tube ; anthers large, 

 oblong. Pistil glabrous ; ovary cylindric, attenuated into a slender 

 little-exsert style ; stigma small, scarcely dilated. Capsule -5 in. long, 

 glabrous, very slender. 



Siamese States : Pungah, Curtis. 



11. B(ea glabra, Eidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 521 (1895). 

 A succulent, glabrous herb ; stem short, 1 to 2 in. long. Leaves undu- 

 late, ovate-rotundate, inaequilateral, 6 in. long, 3-5 in. broad or broader ; 

 petiole 1 to 2 in. long, thick ; upper leaves smaller, opposite. Peduncles 

 subterminal, 3 to 4 in. long, thick; cymes terminal, congested, scor- 

 pioid, -5 in. long ; pedicels short. Calyx-t\xhe short, conical ; lobes 5, 

 equal, obcuneate, truncate, -125 in. long. Corolla white, -5 in. broad; 

 lobes rounded, obtuse. Stamens 2 ; filaments sigmoid, broad at the 

 base, attenuate above ; anthers oblong, acute on both sides, rather 

 large. Style cylindric, thick, glabrous, curved ; stigma scarcely thick- 

 ened, obliquely ovate. 



Siamese States : Pungah, Curtis 3039. 



