180 King & Gambie— Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



3 or 4 in. long. Heads sub-globular, "75 to 1 in. in diam. (when dry). 

 Flowers sessile, pale red. Calyx coloured, pubescent, wider than the 

 corolla, those of the outer flowers 2-lipped and imbricate. Wall, in 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 319 ; Wall. Cat. 6224 ; DC. Prod. 

 IV. 620; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 153, 199; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV. 

 132 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 100. Lecananthus sp. Griff. Notul. IV. 

 272. 



Singapore: Wallich, Lobb, Ridley 384. Selangor : Ridley. Perak: 

 King's Collector 1949, 2135, 10153 ; 8 'cor techini 1275 ; Wray 1936, 2649. 

 Pangkor: Curtis 1640. Penang: Curtis 1643. Malacca: Griffiih 

 (K.D.) 2784; Maingay (K.D.) 912.— Distrib. Borneo; Sumatra. 



17. Coptophyllum, Korthals. 



Small erect simple shrubs with oblanceolate sparsely hairy leaves 

 and ciliate stipules. Flowers pentamerous, crowded in bracteate capitules 

 the outer bracts large and forming an involucre. Calyx-tube ovoid, its 

 limb with 5 oblong ciliate lobes. Corolla-tube subinfundibuliform, its 

 throat naked ; the limb with 5 rather bluut lobes. Stamens 5, inserted 

 below the middle of the corolla ; anthers short, included. Dish annular, 

 glandular. Ovary 2-celled, with numerous ovules on hemispheric 

 placentas; style with 2 truncate arms. Capsule membranous, 2-celled. 

 Seeds sub-rhomboid, scrobiculate ; albumen fleshy ; embryo clavate. — 

 Two or three species ; Malayan. 



Coptophyllum capitatum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 348. Herbaceous ; 

 stems compressed, thinner than a goose-quill, covered with short coarse 

 rusty pubescence. Leaves membranous, oblanceolate, with a short blunt 

 abrupt apiculus, the base much narrowed; upper surface dark-brown, 

 sparsely and coarsely strigose, the lower paler brown, coarsely puberu- 

 lous on the midrib nerves and transverse reticulations, otherwise glab- 

 rous ; main-nerves 9 or 10 pairs, curved, ascending ; length 5*5 to 75 

 in. ; breadth 1'5 to 25 in.; petiole '5 to 1*25 in. Stipules '4 in. long, 

 lanceolate with broad bases, the apices very acuminate, glabrous but the 

 edges ciliate. Peduncles solitary, axillary, slender, compressed, sparsely 

 hispid, 2 to 3 in. long, bearing at their apices single involucrate capitules. 

 Involucre of 4 or more broadly ovate, sub-acute boldly 3-uerved bracts 

 4 in. long, the nerves and edges hispid. Flowers '2 in. long, glabrous, 

 numerous, crowded, mixed with linear or spathulate fimbriate bract eoles 

 about as long as themselves ; pedicels short. Calyx with cylindric 

 campanulate tube; the mouth with 5 linear fimbriate-ciliate lobes longer 

 than the tube. Capsule narrowly ovoid, crowned by the persistent calyx- 

 lobes and within these by a mamillate disc, 2-celled, the placentas with 

 rather numerous large shining brown pitted seeds. * 



