Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 787 



in. wide. Cymes spreading, few- to 10-flowered ; peduncles and pedicels 

 hairy. Calyx shortly 5-lobed, cup-shaped ; lobes triangular, -25 in. 

 long in flower, larger and spreading in fruit. Corolla "5 in. long, 

 white with a violet spot in the centre. Ovary unilocular. Capsule 

 circumsciss near the base. Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan. V. 189, and in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 731 ; Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. 

 No. 43, 83. Cyananthus umbrosa, Griff. Notul. IV. 154 ; Ic. PL Asiat. 

 t. 437. 



Peeak : Telok Pinang, near Ipoh, Bidley 9773 ; Kinta, King's Col- 

 lector 7144. Selangor : woods at the Kuala Lumpur Caves, Bidley 

 8224. Pahang : Tahan Woods, Bidley 2183. Johoee : Gunong Panti, 

 Bidley 4166. — Distbib. Assam. A ground plant in damp rocky woods. 



18. Ehynchotecum, Blume. 



Shrubs, little branched, young parts red-woolly. Leaves opposite 

 or alternate. Cymes axillary, decompound ; flowers small, numerous. 

 Calyx 5-cleft nearly to- the base ; lobes narrow. Corolla small, campanu- 

 late ; limb 2-lipped ; lobes 5, ovate or oblong, subequal. Stamens 4 

 perfect, affixed to near the corolla base ; filaments short, curved ; . 

 anther-cells 2, subparallel. Ovary sessile, ovoid ; disk very small, 

 annular or absent ; style much longer than ovary ; stigma subcapitate. 

 Berry small, globose, with persistent style ; pericarp pulpy. Seeds very 

 small, smooth. — Disteib. Species 9, Indo-Malayan. 



Ehynchotecum paevifloeum, Blume Bijdr. 775 (1826). A little- 

 branched shrub about 3 ft. tall, leafy above, upper parts ferruginous- 

 hairy. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, acute, cuneate at the base, serrate ; 

 8 in. long, 3-5 in. wide ; dark green, glabrous above except the midrib, 

 covered with red wool beneath, thickest on the nerves ; nerves 13 pairs ; 

 petiole 1 in. long. Cymes numerous, short, from the lower part of the 

 stem, laxly branched, red-woolly ; flowers very small, yellowish-white. 

 Calyx-lobes nearly free to the base, linear-lanceolate, acute, woolly, -125 

 in. long. Corolla little longer than the calyx-lobes, campanulate ; lobes 

 oblong, obtuse, white. Stamens 4, very short ; filaments short and thick. 

 Style longer than the ovary. Capsule ovoid-globose, hairy, shorter than 

 the sepals. G. Don Gen. Syst. Dichl. PL IV. 663 ; Dietr. Syn. PL III. 581 ; 

 DC. Prodr. IX. 285 ; Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. (1854) 55 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 750 ; Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan V. i. 195, and in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. IV. 373 ; Eidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 523, and in Journ. 

 Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 84. Isanthera parviflora, Eidley in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 331. 



Penang : Wallich ; Pulau Betong and Penara Bukit, C^^rtis 3035 ; 



