1904.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 67 



calyx, salver- shaped, pubescent outside, glabrous inside except the villous 

 throat ; limb with 4 ovate-lanceolate sub-acute lobes. Anthers 4, sub- 

 sessile in the throat, short, elliptic. Style stout, elongate, sparsely 

 hairy below, divided into several broad flat truncate stigmatic lobes. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Malacca : (on Mount Ophir) Eidley 3217. 

 This differs notably from T. Rujnphii in its shorter flowers and its stipules, 

 he leaves also differ. It has been only once collected. 



Erect herbs or under-shrubs ; stems terete or obtusely angled with 

 linear lines of hairs or glabrous. Leaves equal, usually narrow, stipules 

 connate with the petiole to form a truncate cup often with bristles on its 

 mouth. Flowers white, pink or lilac, small, dimorphous, in corymbose 

 cymes. Calyx-tuhe ovoid or didymous ; teeth 4 minute, subequal or 1 

 or 2 elongate, persistent. CoroUa-tahe long, its throat villous ; lobes 4, 

 valvate in bud, with the tips inflexed. Stamens 4, inserted on the 

 throat; anthers linear, included or exserted. Ovary 2-celled : style 

 filiform: stigma included or exserted, 2-lobed : ovules solitary in each 

 cell, pendulous. Frtiit globose or oblong, small, of two semi-terete or 

 dorsally compressed indehiscent cocci. Seeds with membranous testa 

 and thick funiculus; albumen fleshy; embryo axile, the cotyledons 

 thin and tlie radicle superior. — Distrib. Species about 10: Indian 

 Malayan and Australian. 



Knoxia corymbosa, Willd. Sp. Plant I. 582. Herbaceous, 1 to 4 

 feet high. Stem terete or obscurely 4-angled, little-branched, pubes- 

 cent, tomentose or villous, never glabrous. Leaves membranous, pale- 

 brown and somewhat olivaceous when dry, petiolate or sessile, narrowly 

 elliptic, linear or ovate-lanceolate, tapered to each end, the apex acu- 

 minate ; both surfaces hairy like the stems : main-nerves 5 to 9 pairs, 

 rather straight, ascending, most prominent on the lower surface ; length 

 1*5 to 5 in. ; breadth '4 to 1 in. ; petiole '2 to '4 in. or more. Stipules 

 narrowly cupular, their edges with bristles '1 to '2 in. long. Corymbs 

 on the end of the branches, shorter than the leaves, minutely bracteo- 

 late, trichotomous ; the ultimate branches spicate when in fruit.^ 

 Flowers '05 in. long, on peduncles shorter than themselves, white or 

 purplish. Calyx ovoid, with 4 broad blunt triangular sub-equal teeth. 

 Gorolla-tuhe hairy within. Fruit less than '1 in. long, puberulous. 

 W. & A. Prod. 439; Wight 111. t. 123: Dalz & Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 111. 

 Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 128. K. teres, DC. Prod. IV. 569; Wall. Cat. 

 819 in part. K. exserta, DC. I.e. K. umhellata, Banks ; Spreng. Syst. I. 

 406. K. sumatrensis, Wall. Cat. 6183. K. mollis, Br. in Wall. Cat. 

 820, not of W. 8f A. K. striata, Thw. Enum. 152. Spermacoce ? teres and 

 S, exserta, Roxb. Hort Beng. 10 ; Fl. Ind. I. 367, 368 : Ed. Carey & Wall. 

 I. 373, 374. S. sumatrensis, Retz Obs. IV. 23, ex Cham. & Schl. in 



