1-904.] D^ Prain — Some new Indian Tlants. 205 



pubescent ontside, pubescent inside, the tube narrow, the montl. en m pan u late and 

 with ovate acute teeth. Fruit ellipsoid, much compressed, vertically grooved, the 

 apex flattened and shortly beaked, the base narrowed, the edges keeled, quite 

 glabrous, 1-25 in. long and 1 in. broad, the pericarp crustaceous, very tliick. 



Of this only two specimens have as yet been collected. In the shape both of 

 its leaves and of its fruit it approaches T. Gatappn L., from which, however, it is 

 well distinct. The measurements of fruit above given are of unripe specimens. 



LXXXIIL MONOTROPE^. 



8. CHEILOTHECA Hook. f. 



Anthers long, like linear lips on each side of the connec- 

 tive ... ... ••• ... 1. 0. Jchasiann^ 



Anthers short, hippocrepiform ... ... ... 2. C. malayana. 



1. Cheilotheca khasiana Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. iii., 477. 

 Khasia Mts. ; Hooker ^ Thomson ; Glarke. 



2. Cheilothe-ca malayana Scort. in Rook. f. Icon. Plant, xvi. fc. 

 1564; stems erect, simple or 2 — 3-forked ; stamens puberiilous, alter- 

 nately somewhat shorter and longer, anthers short, hippocrepiform ; 

 stigma obscnrely lobed. 



Malay Peninsula : Perak, in heavy jungle about 3,500 feet elev., 

 Scortechini, Kunstler 2715 ! 



Stem 6-9 in. high, stoutish ; scales '25-'75 in long, imbricate, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 gradually increasing upwards, lurid purple (Scortechini) or waxy white (Kunstler). 

 Flowers terminal 1 in. long, solitary, " hidden inside the leaves at top, bright-yellow' 

 {Kunstler) or with the tips of the petals exserted, white (Scortechini) . ■Sepals 5, re- 

 sembling the uppermost scales, linear-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, glabrous. Petals 3, 

 larger than the sepals, rounded cucullate at apex, glabrous externally, internally more 

 or less pilose. Stamens 6, filaments pilose; anthers short, innate, cells coufl.uent at 

 apex, dehiscing by marginal pores. Ovary narrowly fusiform, stigma obscurely 4- 

 lobed, placentas 6 parietal. Fruit a white fleshy berry, '75 in. across, tipped by the 

 persistent remains of the style. 



The specimens collected by Kunstler differ from those obtained by Scortechini, 

 according to the notes of these two collectors, in having white instead of purple 

 scales and yellow instead of white flowers. The petals of Kunstler's plant are very 

 sparingly hirsute within, and the anthers are about twice as long as the figure in 

 the Icones, t. 1564, shews. In other respects, however, the two are identical, and 

 the doubt is not so much that Scortechini's and Kunstler's specimens represent the 

 same species, as whether the Malayan Cheilotheca really differs specifically from 

 the Khasia one. 



CIV. Orobanchacej:. 



2. CHRISTISONIA Gardn. 



36. Christisonia Scortechinii Prain; stem short, glabrous, scales 

 linear, pedicels short or 0, calyx oblong, lobes acute ; upper anthers 

 J. II. 28 



