782 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



tinctly bilabiate, upper lip smaller lobes short rounded, lower lip 

 longer, trifid; median lobe longer than the others, oblong-obtuse, 

 pubescent across.. Stamens 2 ; filaments from the mouth of the 

 corolla-tube, thick, twisted at the top ; anthers large, reniform. Ovary 

 oblong, pubescent ; style distinct ; stigma very small, capitate. Capsule 

 short, oblong, hair^', enclosed in the calyx, beaked. 



Peeak : Scortechini 406 ; Gunong Batu Putih, Wray 298, 302. 



13. Lepadanthus, Ridley, n, gen. 



Herb with fistular stem. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, toothed. 

 Flowers in axillary or terminal, flexuose, distichous racemes. Calyx- 

 lobes free nearly to the base, ovate acute. Corolla as long as calyx, 

 bilabiate ; upper lobe much the shorter. Stamens 2 fertile ; anthers 

 elliptic. Ovary elliptic ; style long ; stigma oblique, entire. Capsule 

 as long as caljrs-lobes, loculicidal; placentae thick, elevated. Seeds 

 very minute, warted. — Disteib. One species. 



The plant on which the genus is founded has the habit of Rhyncotecum, but 

 the fruit is capsular. 



[Lepadanthus, Ridley, gen. nov. Herbacea, caule fistuloso. Folia opposita, 

 petiolata, ovata, dentata. Flores distichi in racemis axillaribus vel terminalibus 

 flexuosis. Calycis lobi fere ad basin liberi, ovati, acuti. Corolla calyci squalls, 

 bilabiata, labio superiore multo breviore. Stamina 2 fertilia ; antherffi ellipticffi. 

 Ovarium ellipticum, stylo longo, stigmate obliquo, integro. Capsula calycis lobis 

 sequilonga, loculicida, placentis crassis elevatis. Seinina minutissima, verrucosa.] 



Lepadanthus flbxuosa, Eidley, n. sp. A herb, reaching 18 in. in 

 height ; stem hairj^ fistular. Leaves very thin when dry ; ovate, sub- 

 acute, rounded and slightly unequal at base, strongly toothed; 5 in. 

 long, 4 in. wide ; nerves about 8 to 10 pair, hairy ; petiole slender, 

 3 to 4 in. long. Bacemes several, pubescent, 3 to 4 in. long, including 

 the 1 to I'O in. long peduncle ; rachis flexuose with distant alternate 

 flowers on capillary secund pedicels -5 in. long ; bracts in pairs, linear, 

 deflexed, -125 in. long. Caly x-\ohe^ 5, ovate, acuminate, pubescent, 

 3-nerved. Corolla small ; tube short, thick ; upper lip bifid, much 

 shorter than the lower, glabrous. Stamens 2 ; filaments extremely 

 short, adnate to the corolla-tube ; anthers elliptic. Ovary elliptic ; 

 style pubescent, as long as calj'x-lobes or longer; stigma clavate, 

 oblique. Capsule -25 in. long, oblong, glabrous. Seeds elliptic, dark 

 red. 



Kedah : inside the caves, Gunong Grenong, Fox 3811 (a poor 

 specimen only). 



