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mens 4 ; filaments very short ; anthers rounded, connivent. Style 

 curved, larger than the stamens. Capsule linear cylindric— Disteib. 

 Species 4 or 5, in Assam, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula. 



Eidley says: "Most of the few described species are based on flowerless speci- 

 mens, and are all very similar and closely resemble Bcea divaricata in habit, but the 

 capsule is straight and not twisted. The type-species, however (B. filiformis, Clarke), 

 has 4 stamens instead of 2. The Malayan one described below differs from these in 

 habit, and I have seen no fruit, but there is no other genus to which it can be referred 

 on account of its 4 very short stamens arranged in a circle round the pistil. The 

 only other genus allied to it is Platystemma, a Himalayan plant with distinctly 2- 

 lipped flowers." 



BcEiCA BEACHYANDBA, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 78 

 (1905). Stemless. Leaves obovate, serrate, hairy, dark green, obtuse; 

 3 in. long by 1-5 in. wide ; nerves 6 or 7 pair ; covered beneath v^ith 

 long red hairs ; back of leaf punctate. Scape short, few-flov^ered, about 

 3 in. long, hairy, unbranched. Calyx-lohes free nearly to base, linear, 

 hairy, green, nearly as long as corolla-lobes. Coro^Za-tube very short ; 

 lobes broad, rounded, oblong, explanate, subequal, pale lilac, about 

 •5 in. across. Stamens 4 ; filaments very short ; anthers broad, waxy, 

 subglobose, connivent round the pistil. Style longer than stamens, 

 slender, curved, white. Capsule cylindric, narrow, 1 in. long, scabrid, 

 straight, on pedicels elongated to '5 in. 



Kedah : Langkawi, Gunong Chinchang, at Kwala Malacca, Curtis. 



Eidley says this plant was found quite dried up in February, 1899, but was 

 brought in alive and flowered in the Botanic Gardens, Penang. 



12. Oechadocarpa, Eidley. 



Herb or shrublet, with opposite unequal leaves. Floivers small, 

 blue, racemose or cymose, pedicelled. Calyx-\ohe^ free to base, 

 narrow-lanceolate. CoroZZa-tube short ; limb 2-lipped unequally. 

 Stamens 2 ; filaments short, exsert, sinuate, glabrous ; anthers bilobed, 

 reniform, connivent by their edges. Ovary hairy, oblong ; style short ; 

 stigma capitate. Capsule oblong, hairy, enclosed in the sepals. — 

 DiSTRiB. One species, Malayan. 



Oechadocaepa lilacina, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. 

 No. 43, 78 (1905). Steyn short to 4 in. long, stout, woody. Leaves 

 crowded at the top, long-petioled, thin, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 strongly serrate, covered with closely-felted short hairs ; base broad, in- 

 sequilateral ; 3 to 7 in. long, 1*5 to 3 in. wide ; petiole slender, 3 to 6in. long. 

 Peduncle 3 to 4 in. long, pubescent, villous, bearing a terminal, pubescent, 

 umbelliform panicle, or simply racemose. Calyx-loheB linear, pubes- 

 cent, '1 to "2 in. long. Corolla pale lilac-blue ; tube very short ; limb dis- 



