Pkyteuma. fkmtandria monogynia, 105 



ous, adhering to the long, filliform, free receptacles, which are at- 

 tached to the apex of the capsules as already mentioned. 



Addition by N. W. 



The following description has been given of this plant by my 

 highly valued friend Mr. Jack in Malayan Miscellanies i. 5, who 

 has favoured me with abundance of specimens. He informs nie that 

 the Malay name is Jelaiung-rusa. 



"A small herbaceous plant. Stem procumbent, one or two feet 

 in length, thick, villous, tufty at the summit, with fasciculate hairs. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, semicordate, unequilateral, turning to 

 one side, eight inches long, acute, with gross sub-spinescent serra- 

 tures, villous beneath, adult leaves smooth above, nerves generally 

 dichotomous. Petiols thick, round, furrowed above. Stipules 

 none. Peduncles axillary or supra-axillary. Flowers unilateral, erect, 

 arranged in two rows on a recurved spike, nearly sessile, crowded. 

 Tirades cuneiform, obtuse. Calyx semi-superior, ovate, villous, five- 

 lobcd, lobes obtuse. Corolla white, campanulas, persistent, limb 

 recurved, 6ve-loberi, lobes obtuse; after florescence the corolla be- 

 comes green and enlarges. Stamina five, erect, short, inserted on 

 the calyx and opposite to its divisions. Anthers linear, acute. Ova- 

 rium surrounded by the calyx and connected with it by five longitu- 

 dinal septa or processes from which the stamina spring, three or 

 four-celled, many-seeded, placentae from the inner angles of the cells. 

 Style short, thick. Stigma large, thick, three-lobed. Capsule 

 three or four-celled, containing numerous seeds arranged on convex 

 placentas. 



" The septa which unite the calyx and ovary appear continuous with 

 the filaments of the stamina. The young parts are densely villous, 

 but the hairs are easily rubbed away. In drying, the plant assumes 

 a bright yellow colour. It appears extremely doubtful whether this 

 plant be truly refeirible to Phyteuma; it does not however agree 

 well with any other genus of the family of Cumpanuiacea?, and it will 



