Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 797 



globose, -25 to 1 in. in diam. ; peduncles 1 to 1-5 in. long, hispid ; bracts 

 lanceolate, -25 in. long ; flowers of various colours, orange, red, and 

 white. Calyx very small, slightly 2-lipped, pubescent. Gorolla-ixxhe 

 slender, pubescent, -2 to -4 in. long; lobes rounded, spreading. Fila- 

 ments very short ; anther-cells unequal. Drupe ovoid, black, shining, 

 •1 to -2 in. in diam. ; pyrenes rounded. Bot. Mag. t. 96 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Suppl. 68 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 346. L. Camara, Linn. I. c. ; Schauer 

 in DC. Prodr. XI. 598 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 562 ; Cooke Bomb. Fl. • 

 II. 419 ; Prain Beng. Plants 825 ; Baker in Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. V. 275. 



Penang : Curtis ; Deschamps. Pbovince Wellesley : G. King. 

 Singapore : Deschamps. — Disteib. Native of Tropical America, now 

 widely spread in many regions of the Old World and very troublesome 

 from its quick and strong matted growth. 



2. LiPPiA, Linn. 



Shrubs or undershrubs, rarely herbs, usually more or less hairy. 

 Leaves opposite, ternate or verticillate, rarely alternate ; entire dentate 

 or lobate. Floicers small, in elongate or cyUndrical or capitulate 

 spikes ; bracts small, imbricate ; bracteoles none. Calyx small, 

 membranous, 2- to 4-lobed, ultimately 2-valved, enclosing or some- 

 times adhering to the fruit. Corolla more or less hypocrateriform ; 

 tube cylindrical, straight or curved ; limb oblique, more or less bilabiate ; 

 upper lip bifid, emarginate or 2-lobed ; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4 

 didjTiamous, included in the corolla-tube and inserted at its middle; 

 anthers ovate with parallel cells. Ovary 2-celled ; ovule solitary in each 

 cell, erect from the base or laterally attached near the base of the cell ; 

 style short ; stigma capitate, oblique or recurved, thickened. Fruit 

 smaU, wnth a dry epicarp ; mesocarp granular ; endocarp hard, bony, 

 easily separating into two 1-seeded pyrenes. Seed exalbuminous ; 

 radicle inferior. — Disteib. About 100 or more species, chiefly Tropical 

 American, with a few African and only very few Asiatic. 



LiPPiA NODiFLOEA, Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. II. 15 (1803). A creep- 

 ing perennial herb ; stems rooting at the nodes, much branched, sub- 

 quadrangular, channelled, more or less clothed wdth appressed, medifixed, 

 white hairs, often glabrous. Leaves opposite, subsessile, spathulate, 

 rounded at apex, cuneate at base ; both surfaces appressedly hairy 

 with medifixed white hairs ; upper half deeply and sharply ser- 

 rate, lower entire ; "75 to 1'25 in. long, -25 to -75 in. broad ; midrib 

 prominent ; main nerves 3 to 4 pairs, straight. Spikes dense, globose 

 at first, afterwards gradually elongating to oblong in fruit, -25 to -5 in. 

 long ; peduncles 1 to 3 in. long, usually from only one axil of each pair 



