

1903.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malatjan Peninsula. 171 



the apex; seeds numerous, angled, black. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 66; Trim. Flora Ceylon III. 316. 0. repens,Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 15, f . 2 ? 

 Bedyotis trinervia, W. & A. Prod. 414; Dalz. & Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 115; 

 Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 29. E. rotundifolia, DC. Prod. IV. 420. E. 

 serphyllifolia, Poir. in DO. I.e. 421. E. orbiculata, Heyne, Wall. Cat. 

 6191. 



Singapore: Ridley 8047. Pahang: Ridley 1492. Penang: Curtis 

 1844. — Distrib. British India; Sumatra; Java, ; Borneo; Philippines; 

 Ceylon ; Tropical Africa. 



14. Ophiorrhiza, Linn. 



Decumbent creeping or erect herbs (rarely under-shrubs), with 

 slender terete branches. Leaves usually elliptic-lanceolate, often un- 

 equal; stipules caducous, very often small. Floivers rather small, 

 white, pink or greenish, secund in dichotomously branched axillary or 

 terminal cymes ; bracts and bracteoles various or absent. Calyx short, 

 usually cylindric or campanulate, becoming obreniform or obcordate in 

 fruit, the lobes small and persistent. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, 

 the tube inside glabrous or hairy ; the lobes 5, short, valvate in bud, 

 often winged on the back, and with a fold in the sinus between neigh- 

 bouring lobes. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube ; anthers linear. Disk 

 large, fleshy, 2-lobed. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform; stigmas 2, linear 

 or broad ; ovules numerous, inserted on placentas ascending from the 

 bases of the cells. Capsules coriaceous, compressed obreniform or ob- 

 cordate, dehiscing at the apex by 2 broad gaping valves; placentas 

 divaricating, many-seeded. Seeds minute, angled, the testa crustaceous ; 

 embryo clavate, in fleshy albumen.— Distrib. Species about 50, tropical 

 Asiatic. 



Leaves quite glabrous : — 

 Stipules lanceolate ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 1 to 

 1*5 in. broad ... ... ... ... 1. O. discolor. 



Stipules reduced to rugulose bands; leaves elliptic, 1*5 



to 4 in. broad ... ... ... ... 2. 0. erulescens. 



Leaves glabrous except their nerves : — 



Larger leaves 5 or 6 in. long and 15 to 2 in. broad, midrib 



nerves and reticulations puberulous ... ... 3. 0. fasciculata. 



Larger leaves 2 to 3 in. long and *65 to 1 in. broad j nerves 



and midrib beneath with dense pale pubescence ... 4. 0. hispiduia. 



Leaves glabrous on the upper surface, glabrous or puberu- 



lous and usually stained with red on the lower when dry, 



elliptic or oblong- elliptic, 2 to 5 in. long and 1 or 2 in. 



broad ... ... ... ... ... 5. O.Mungos. 



Leaves slightly puberulous : — 

 Stipules forming a broadly triangular very shallow cup, 



