1904.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 73 



globose, sub-sessile, terminal, witli numerous very short branches, about 

 3 in. in diam., dense, many-flowered, pedicellate, each flower with a 

 lanceolate small bract. Calyx '15 in. long, campanulate, the 4 lobes of 

 the limb unequal, broadly lanceolate, acute, somewhat longer than the 

 tube. Corolla-tube puberulous, '6 in. long, cylindric, narrow below, 

 somewhat wider above ; the limb "6 in. across ; its lobes oblong, broad, 

 blunt, spreading, the throat with a few hairs. Anthers sub-sessile, 

 narrow, apiculate. Fruit unknown. 



Malay Peninsula: Griffith (K.D.) 3003. Pungah : Curtis, 2^Q1. 

 Perak : Wray, 3543 ? 



Mr. Curtis has sent from Pungali two specimens bearing the nnmber 2961, 

 one in Herb. Kew and the other in Herb. Calcutta. The one in Herb. Calcutta is 

 typical I. merguensis ; that in Kew forms the variety described below, 



Var. Curtisii, King & Gamble ; leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, not 

 at all obovate ; nerves about 14 pairs, curving upwards, distinct on both 

 surfaces; length 14 in.; breadth 4*25. OoroZZa-^ztfce about '8 in, long, 

 cylindric, widening upwards, puberulous ; its limb nearly 1 in. across ; 

 the lobes ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, the throat hairy. 



Pungah : Curtis, 2961. 



3. IxoRA KiNGSTONi, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. Ill, 140. A shrub or 

 small tree : young branches as thick as a duck's quill, terete, smooth 

 and dark-coloured when dry. Leaves thinly membranous, shining and 

 of a pale warm-brown colour when dry ; glabrous, oblong or elliptic- 

 oblong, sometimes oblanceolate, the apex with a short usually blunt 

 point, tapered fix)m below the middle to the short petiole ; the reticula- 

 tions slender; main-nerves 15 to 18 pairs, slender, spreading; length 5 

 to 9 in.; breadth 2 to 3in. : petiole '4 to '5 in, channelled; stipules 

 semilunar, broad but only about '1 to "15 in. long, the apex bearing a 

 short bristle. Cymes 4 to 6, in a dense terminal corymbose panicle 3 

 or 4 in. in diam., each on a puberulous bracteate peduncle about '5 in. 

 long (longer in fruit) and bearing numerous bibracteolate flowers, the 

 bracts and pairs of bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, sub-acute 

 more or less persistent. Flowers 4-merous, sessile, crowded. Calyx '2 

 to "3 in. long ; the tube short, narrow ; the limb with 4 large deep broad 

 blunt lobes longer than the tube, one usually longer than the other 3 

 and resembling the bracts nnd bracteoles in texture. Corolla-tube 1 to 

 1-25 in. long, slender, cylindric, glabrous ; the limb '5 to '6 in. across, 

 the lobes broadly obovate, obtuse, spreading. Anthers narrow, apiculate, 

 reflexed, longer than their filaments. Stigma slightly exserted, small. 

 Fruit ovoid, puberulous, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes ; length 

 (including calyx-lobes) "7 in.: diameter -3 to '4 in (when dry). 



