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short ; anthers cohering in pairs or altogether. Dish unilateral or a 

 complete ring. Ovary 1-locular ; style short ; stigma capitate. Caj)- 

 sule memhranous, enclosed in the enlarged calyx, irregularly splitting. 

 Seeds oblong, minute, reticulate. — Distrib. Species 7, of the Malay 

 Peninsula and Islands, and Siam. 



Leaf glabrous ; calyx-lobes not spreading in fruit 



Calyx-lobes ovate, rounded ; flowers white . . . . 1. M. Horsfieldii. 



Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute ; flowers white and brown . . 2. M. glabra. 



Leaf strigosely hairy ; calyx-lobes spreading in fruit . . B. M. patens. 



1. MoNOPHYLL^A HoESFiELDii, E. Br. in Benn. -PI. Jav. Ear. 121 

 (1840), and Ann. Sc. Nat. 2, XIII. 160. Stem 6 in. to 1 ft. 

 tall. Leaf ovate-cordate, 6 to 12 in. long, 1 to 12 in. wide ; glabrous, 

 glaucous beneath. Racemes 2 to 7, often stout, 9 in. long ; flowers 

 numerous, subsecund ; pedicels "25 in. long, glabrous. Calyx-lobe's, 

 glabrous, rounded, ovate, ribbed. Corolla-iuhe short, cylindric ; upper 

 lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed ; lobes rounded, white. Stamens 4, didyna- 

 mous, glabrous ; anthers connate. Style short, glabrous ; pistil sub- 

 globose. Capsule globose, enclosed in the enlarged calyx-lobes. Seeds 

 oblong, brown, reticulate, very numerous. DC. Prodr. IX. 274 ; Miq. 

 M. Ind. Bat. II. 731; Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan. V. 182, and in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 370 ; Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 82. 



Selangoe : Kuala Lumpur Caves, Curtis ; Beccari. Peeak : Goping, 

 King's Collector 443, 515. — Disteib. Sumatra : Batu Pantih {Forbes 

 2660); Java (Lobb). On limestone rocks. 



2. MoNOPHYLL^A GLABEA, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. 

 No. 43, 82 (1905). Stem succulent, 6 in. to 1 ft. tall. Leaf ovate- 

 cordate, obtuse, glabrous ; glaucous beneath ; 2-5 to 6 in. long, 2 to 6 in. 

 wide. Bacemes slender, glabrous, 4 to 10, 2 to 8 in. long, lax ; 

 flowers numerous, in pairs ; pedicels slender, -25 in. long, spreading, 

 deflexed. Caly x-loheQ "125 in. long in fruit, lanceolate, acute, glabrous, 

 not spreading. Corolla brown and white. Capsule enclosed in the 

 sepals, cylindric, oblong. 



Siamese States : Kasum, Curtis 3219. 



3. MoNOPHYLL^A PATENS, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. 

 No. 43, 82 (1905). Stem 1 to 4 in. long, viscid-hairy. Leaf 

 ovate-cordate to ovate-lanceolate, strigose, hairy ; 6 in, long, 4 to 6 

 in. across. Bacemes slender, 4 to 20, pubescent, 4 to 5 in. long ; 

 flowers in pairs; pedicels slender, pubescent, -25 in. long in fruit. 

 Galyx-lohes lanceolate, hairy, spreading in a stellate manner in fruit, 

 ribbed. Coro/Za-tube short ; lobes white. Stamens 4, glabrous, didy- 



