784 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



single, ovate or cucullate ; flowers small, blue or white, in a scorpioid 

 cyme on short pedicels. Calyx campanulate ; lobes 5, acute. Corolla- 

 tube short ; limb distinctly 2-lipped ; lobes acute or obtuse, subequal. 

 Stamens : 2 posterior perfect, 2 anterior ones sterile, shorter ; anthers co- 

 herent. Dish unilateral or almost surrounding the ovary. Ovary 

 ovoid ; style longer ; stigma subcapitate. Capsule globose, enclosed in 

 the enlarged calyx on a thickened and a longer pedicel, splitting trans- 

 versely (a p5^is). Seeds ellipsoid or oblong, spirally reticulate. — 

 DisTEiB. Species about 6 Asiatic, all very closely allied, and one 

 African. 



Epithema saxatile, Blume Bijdr. 738 (1826). Succulent herb, 

 3 to 12 in. tall; stem viscid, pubescent. Leaves very variable, 

 opposite, ovate cordate, denticulate or crenulate, hairy ; 1'5 to 6 in. 

 long, 1 to 5 in. across ; petiole '25 to 1-5 in. long. Peduncle 1 to 2 in. 

 long, viscid ; cyme '75 in. across, subtended by a broad sessile truncate 

 denticulate bract ; flowers numerous, subsessile. Calyx viscid, pubes- 

 cent, tubular, split about half-way down into 5 narrow lobes -25 in. long. 

 Gorolla-txjhe as long, straight, white ; three upper lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 tipped with violet ; lower two connate, broader, subovate, denticulate, 

 thinner, pellucid, tipped mauve with darker central spots ; mouth of tube 

 inside hairy. Stamens 4, in 2 pairs ; filaments incurved, adnate to the 

 mouth of the tube, white ; anthers 2, oblong, connate, yellowish. 

 Ovary ovoid, enclosed in a fleshy truncate yellow disk ; style stout, 

 glabrous ; stigma capitate. Capsule globose, pubescent, surrounded by 

 the much enlarged ovate acute sepals and borne on the thickened 

 elongate to '125 in. pedicel, circumsciss. Seeds very numerous, brown, 

 elliptic, fusiform, spirally ribbed. DC. Prodr. IX. 278 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 736 ; ZoU. Verz. Ind. Archip. 55 ; Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan. 

 V. 178 ; Eidley in Jom^n. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 80. 



Kedah : Langkawi Islands, Curtis 2107. Peeak : Telor Pinang 

 Ipoh, Piidley ; Batu Kuran, Scortechini 1580 ; King's Collector 10941 ; 

 Sungei Eyah, Kunstler 283 ; Goping, King's Collector 5872. Selangoe : 

 Kuala Lumpur Caves, Ridley 8217. Pahang : Kota Glanggi, Bidley. 

 — DisTEiB. Java, Borneo, Sumatra. On limestone rocks. 



16. MoNOPHYLLJilA, E. Br. 



Succulent herbs with an unbranched stem and one large herbaceous 

 cordate-ovate sessile leaf. Peduncles numerous, from the leaf-base, with 

 racemose or cymose inflorescence ; flowers small. Calyx deeply 5-cleft ; 

 lobes elliptic, obtuse. Corolla small, usually white ; tube short, cylin- 

 dric ; limb distinctly 2-lipped, lobes 5. Stamens 4 perfect ; filaments 



