786 Flora of the Malayan Peninsida. 



namous. Ovary ovoid ; style short, thick, glabrous. Capsule globose, 

 glabrous. Seeds numerous, black, tessellated. 



Selangoe: Kuala Lumpur Caves, Bidley 8222 ; Kind's Collector 7052. 

 Peeak: Kinta, Curtis ZIZQ; Sungei Siput, Curtis 3135; Batu Kuran, 

 Scortechini 1574, 1579; Goping, Kunstler 449. On limestone rocks. 



17. Staueantheea, Benth. 



Herbs, succulent, pubescent. Leaves alternate, the opposite ones 

 reduced, falcate, elliptic, acuminate, inaequilateral. Cymes peduncled, 

 lax ; bracts small ; flowers medium-sized, sho"^^. Calyx campanulate ; 

 lobes 5. Corolla campanulate, rounded ; tube short, shortly spurred or 

 gibbous ; Hmb 2-lipped ; lobes rounded, nearly equal. Stamens 4 per- 

 fect; anthers co'nnate, bilocular, bases diverging. Ovary subglobose or 

 ovoid, no disk; style short. Capsule depressed, globose, irregularly 

 split. Seeds minute, obovoid-reticulate. — Disteib. Species 3. Assam 

 and Malay Islands. 



Flowers large, base of corolla spurred . . . . .. 1. S. grandifiora. 



Flowers snaall, base of corolla not spurred . . . . 2. S. umbrosa. 



1. Staueantheea gbandifloea, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 57 (1835). 

 Succulent herb with a fleshy stem about 6 in. tall. Leaves 6 in. long 

 by 4 in. wide or less ; oblong, obtuse, crenulate ; deep green above, 

 bullate, glabrous, inaequilateral, pubescent on both sides ; petiole 1 in. 

 long. Cyme short, pubescent, 3 in. long, with a few (9) large flowers ; 

 bracts short, ovate ; flowers 1'25 in. across. Calyx-lohes lanceolate, 

 ovate, pubescent. Co7-ollu-tuhe short and broad, with a short spur at 

 the base ; lobes short, broad, rounded, violet with a central yellow bar 

 reaching to the spur. Stamens subequal, 4 ; filaments slender ; anthers 

 connate. Ovary ovoid ; style shorter than the stamens ; stigma capitate. 

 Capsule 2 in. broad. Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan. V. 190, and in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 371; G. Don Gen. Syst. Dichl. PL IV. 665. 

 S. gr%')idifolia, Dictr. Syn. PI. III. 582 ; R. Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Ear. 

 121, and Ann. Sc. Nat. 2, XIII. 167 ; DC. Prodr. IX. 278 ; Hook. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5409; Floral Mag. Ser 1 (1866), t. 272; Miq. PL Ind. Bat. II. 

 735 ; Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 89 his ; Ridley in Journ. Str. Br. 

 R. As. Soc. No. 43, 83. Glossanthus ? grandiflora, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 

 6395. 



Penang : Wallich 6395 ; rocks near Balik Pulau, Curtis. Peeak : 

 Lanit, King's Collector 2248. — Disteib. Bm-ma. Rare, on rocks. 



2. Staueantheea umbeosa, Clarke in Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. 

 t. 89 (1874). Stem 3 to 6 in. tall. Leaves ovate, oblong, falcate, 

 inaequilateral, strigosely hairy especially beneath ; 6 to 8 in. long, 2 to 4 



