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and to the Philippines. It has not, however, as stated in the Index Kewensis, been 

 yet collected in any part of Malaya. 



Whether the two plants deserve to be considered specifically distinct is rather 

 an open question. They are easily distinguished in most cases and in any case are 

 certainly very distinct varieties. 



15. ADENOSMA R. Br. 



1.* Adenosma inopinatum Prain ; hirsute, leaves ovate-acute, 

 serrate; flowers axillary sessile, 3 outer sepals in fruit very large, 

 rounded at base, about twice as long as broad, 2 inner very small 

 lanceolate. A. ovatum Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. 263 as to the Malay Penin- 

 sula locality, not of Benth. 



Malay Peninsula; Malacca, Griffith! Singapore, Anderson! Kunstler ! 



Branching from the base, black when dry ; branches 2-3 ft long, often rooting 

 below, prostrate or ascending. Leaves 1'5-1'75 in., base cuneate, tapering to a very 

 short petiole. Fruiting sepals nearly '5 in. long, membranous reticulate pubescent 

 outer twice as long as broad. Flowers blue. 



This is very near A. ovatum from which it differs by its narrower fruiting sepals 

 and still nearer A. subrepens from which it differs by its rather larger, serrate not 

 crenate and acute not obtuse leaves. 



9. Adenosma hirsutum Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 2. 143 

 (1873). Pterostigma hirsutum Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 562 (1860). 

 P. villosum Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 562 (1860) not of Benth.; stout, 

 erect, densely tawny-tomentose, leaves very short-petioled, ovate ovate- 

 lanceolate or lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, crenate-serrate, flowers in 

 dense cylindric villous bracteate spikes, corolla blue ; capsule ovate 

 abruptly beaked. 



Nicobars : Kamorta, Kurz ! Malay Peninsula, Prov. Wellesley, at 

 Kuleang Ulu, Curtis 2238 ! Distrib. Sumatra, at Rau (Teijsmann 1157) ! 

 Bangka, near Djebus (Teijsmann 3429) ! 



Stems 2-4 ft., and leaves on both sides densely villous with tawny hairs, as are 

 the leafy bracts '75 in. long at base of spikes, but gradually decreasing upwards. 

 Spikes 2-35 in. long, very dense. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, the uppermost largest. 

 Capsule straw-coloured. 



The bracts of the Nicobar specimens are rather larger than these of the original 

 Sumatra plant but the leaves are identical. The leaves of the Malayan Peninsula 

 plant are rather narrower, but the bracts are exactly as in the Sumatra plant. The 

 Bangka plant is rather more slender, but has the same compact heads with leafy 

 bracts and tawny pubescence, and is very different from Pterostigma villosum Benth. 

 (Adenosma cceruleum) to which Miquel has referred it. The nearest ally of the 

 species is Adenosma capitatum from which, however, it is very distinct. 



8. Adenosma macrophyllum Benth. 



This plant, founded on Wall. Cat. 3853, as represented in Herb. Calcutta, is 

 only Lindenbergia philippinensis. 



