158 King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



the midrib; length 1*75 to 35 in. ; breadth "6 to 115 in. ; petiole '05 in. 

 Stipules pubescent, short, broad, truncate, the upper edge bearing 3 or 4 

 stout black erect bristles. Inflorescence 1 to 175 in. long, terminal and 

 f rom the upper leaf-axils, paniculate ; the branches diverging, each with 

 a minute linear bracteole at its base and at its apex a lax few-flowered 

 umbel *4 in. in diam. Flowers about "15 in. long, their pedicels about 

 as long or shorter. Calyx narrowly campanulate, glabrous ; the mouth 

 with 4 rather broad triangular teeth. Corolla about twice as long as 

 the calyx, glabrous ; the tube funnel-shaped ; the mouth deeply divided 

 into 4 oblong blunt teeth. Capsules narrowly obovoid, glabrous, crown- 

 ed by the small spreading calyx-teeth, faintly 2-grooved, under *7 in. 

 long. Seeds several in each cell, dark brown. G. Don Gen. Syst. III. 

 527 ; Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 57. 



Perak : Scortechini 55 ; King's Collector 2704. Penang : Curtis 1096. 



var. laxa. Inflorescence 1*5 to 3 in. long, much more lax than in 

 the type; flower-pedicels slender, often '15 in. long; flowers *2 in. long. 



Perak : King's Collector 2926. Penang : Curtis 1096. 



2. Hedyotis Prainiana, King n. sp. Scandent, at first green but 

 ultimately olivaceous-brown when dry ; young branches thinner than a 

 goose-quill, broadly two-grooved, very slightly angled, uniformly clothed 

 with short yellowish pubescence. Leaves thickly membranous, broadly 

 lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, acute, the base narrowed into the petiole ; 

 both surfaces minutely pubescent ; midrib prominent ; main-nerves 4 or 

 5 pairs, rather straight, ascending ; length 2 to 4 in. ; breadth 1 to 1*5 

 in. ; petioles *3 to *8 in. long, tomentose ; the leaves of the inflorescence 

 becoming smaller and with shorter petioles upwards, the uppermost pair 

 sessile. Stipules broad at the base, the mouth with numerous long 

 linear or lanceolate unequal lobes. Inflorescence a narrow panicle 6 to 15 

 in. long, with short simple or ternate spreading umbel-bearing branches 

 •75 to 25 in. long, everywhere clothed with rather dense yellowish 

 pubescence. Umbels capituliform, 3 to "5 in. in diam. when dry, bi-brac- 

 teolate at the base, .10- to 12-flowered. Flowers rather more than '1 in. 

 long, on short pedicels about as long as their acute bracteoles. Calyx 

 narrowly campanulate, with 4 long erect lanceolate lobes, pubescent out- 

 side like the corolla. Corolla slightly exserted, tubular, with 4 short 

 broad teeth. Stamens 4, included; anthers narrowly ovate, filaments 

 short. Fruit oblong, pubescent, the cocci plano-convex, each containing 

 a large placenta and 2 or 3 large compressed seeds. 



Penang: Curtis 977. 



Allied to H. capitellata, Wall., but pubescent and with flowers only half as large. 

 Scortechini (Herb. 34) collected in Perak specimens in advanced frnit which may 

 belong to this. 



