22 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



slender, to *25 in. long ; calyx with short, fine, 

 spreading hairs; fruit 08-1 in. long, finely 

 muricate 

 Leaves membranous with conspicuous raised 

 transverse veins; pedicels slender, *08-'12 in. 

 long ; calyx with long spreading hairs ; fruit 

 '15-18 in. long, coarsely muricate ... 

 Loaves obliquely elliptic, 4-6 in. by 2'2-3*5 in. ; 

 fruit '2 in. long 

 Cymes distinctly, often long, peduncled : — 



Cymes 2 or more gathered in an umbel, or if simple, 

 then with a pair of (often minute) leaves at the 

 middle : — 



Calyx hairy ; fruit muricate : — 

 Cymes usually compound, minutely bracteate, 

 axis shaggy ; leaves more or less hairy all over 

 Cymes usually simple, deciduously bracteate ; 

 bracts small ; axis shortly hairy ; leaves gla- 

 brous (in the Peninsular specimens) with the 

 exception of the very shortly and scantily hairy 

 nerves and veins of the underside 

 Calyx glabrous ; fruit smooth 

 Cymes simple, ebracteate ; peduncle naked : — 

 Softly hairy or tomentose all over :— 



Leaves oblong-elliptic or obovate, 2*2-2'8 in. 

 by 1-1*2 in., petals *18 in. long ... ... 



Leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 3-6 in. by 

 1-1*5 in. ; petals *35 in. long 

 Shortly tomentose on stem, petioles and pe- 

 duncles and pubescent on the nerves on the 

 underside of the leaves, otherwise glabrous; 

 fruit smooth ... 



30. 8. microcarpa. 



31. S. costulata. 



32. 8. macrophylla. 



33. 8. paradoxa. 



34. 8. begoniaefolia. 



35. 8. glabriflora. 



36. S. elatostemoides. 



37. 8. bicolor 



38. 8. Calycula. 



1. Sonerila. epilobioides, Stapf and King. An erect, sparingly 

 branched, almost quite glabrous herb, about 6 in. high. Stem with 

 2 prominent very minutely hairy lines or quite glabrous. Leaves of each 

 pair similar in shape and equal or almost equal in size, ovate, acute or 

 subacute, acuminate at the base, minutely toothed, thinly membranous, 

 green, glabrous or with few scattered, soft, adpressed hairs above, 1— 1*75 

 in. long by *7-'9 in. broad, finely 5- (rarely 3-) nerved from the very base 

 with a few delicate side nerves higher up; petiole '4-*5 in. long, slender. 

 Cymes terminal, peduncled, rather loosely 5-6-flowered, glabrous ; peduncle 

 *6-*8 in. long, slender ; pedicels at length up to *2 in. long, very slender. 

 Calyx very slender, obconical, *25-*3 in. long ; teeth broad, triangular, 

 mucronulate. Petals elliptic-oblong, acuminate-apiculate, *2 in. long, 

 pink. Anthers subacute ;• 12 in. long. Style filiform, 12-15 in. long; 

 stigma subcapitate. Mature fruit unknown. 



Kedah ; Santow, on the limestone islands, Curtis 2114 ! 



