1903.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 169 



1*25 in. ; breadth *1 to *2 in. ; petiole '05 in. to 0. Stipules cupular, very 

 short, with small obscure teeth not bristly. Cymes axillary and termin- 

 al, with many long slender dichotomous few-flowered, angular, sub- 

 hispidulous branches ; the lateral cymes 1 to 2 in. long, the terminal one 

 3 to 5 in., with leaf-like linear bracts varying from '25 to '5 in. in length. 

 Flowers '2 in. long, clavate in bud, solitary at the ends of the ultimate 

 hair-like branchlets. Calyx campanulate ; the lobes 4, lanceolate, sab- 

 erect, sub-glabrous, often with smaller lobes interposed. Corolla twice 

 as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped, the tube long and narrow ; the limb 

 wide, with 4 spreading lanceolate teeth, glabrous. Capsules less than *l 

 in. in diain., sub-globular, crowned by the small distant erect calyx- 

 teeth, glabrous, dehiscent. Seeds numerous, brown. Hedyotis dichotoma, 

 Koen. ex Roth Nov. Sp. 93 ; Wall. Cat. 6204 (in part) ; W. & A. Prod. 

 416 (excl. some synonyms). H. affinis, Roem. & Sch. Syst. 194. H. 

 Hey?iei, Bedd. Ic. PI. In. Or. t. 33 (not of Brown). H. brachiata, Wall. 

 Cat. 6201 (in part) not of Wight. 



Penang: King's Collector J282; Curtis 49 4 ; Deschamps. Province 

 Wellesley: King. Malacca: Ridley 1717. Johor : Ridley 11146. 



4. Oldenlandia corymbosa, Linn. Sp. PI. 119. Rather stouter and 

 more branched than O. dichotoma, and the branches more boldly angled. 

 Leaves usually rather shorter, many of them not exceeding *5 in. in 

 length. Flowers solitary, on pedicels not more than half as long as in 

 O. dichotoma, or in pedunculate 3- to 4-flowered corymbs, otherwise as in 

 O. dichotoma. Hiern Flora Trop. Afric. III. 62 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. End. 

 III. 64 ; Trim. Fl. Cey. I. 314. O. biflora, Lam. Encyc. IV. 533 (not of 

 Linn.) ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 423. O. ramosa, Roxb. 1. c. 424. O. herbacea, 

 DC Prod. IV. 425 (not of Linn. ) O. scabrida, DC. I.e. Hedyotis Burman- 

 niana, Br. in Wall. Cat. 868 in part ; W. & A. Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. 415. 

 H. biflora, Roth Nov. Spec. 92 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1877, IX. 

 133. H. ramosa, Bl. Bijdr. 973 ; ? Wight Ic. t. 822. H. intermedia, W. 

 & A. Prod. 415. H. alsinaefoUa, Br. in Wall. Cat. 873. if. graminicola, 

 Kurz iu Timen's Journ. Bot. 1875, 326. Gerontogea biflora, Cham. & 

 Schl. in Linnsea. IV. 155.— Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 38. 



Johor : Ridley 2861, 11142. Singapore : King's Collector 27 ; Ridley. 

 Penang : Curtis 494, 1849, 1988. Pkovince Wellesley : King. Anda- 

 mans: King's Collector. — Distrib. British India; Malay Archipelago ; 

 tropical Africa and America. 



5. Oldenlandia Heynei, G. Don Gen. Syst. III. 531. Stouter and 

 taller than O. dichotoma and drying (especially as regards the under 

 surfaces of the leaves) of a darker colour, and the stems more boldly 

 4-angular; the flowers solitary but on equally long pedicels as in O. 

 dichotoma, the capsules slightly larger and wider at the base. Hook, fil. 



