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hairs ; rachis slender ; common peduncle very short to '7 in. long, 

 slender, with a pair of spathulate-lanceolate, petioled leaflets at the point 

 of branching ; special peduncles very short ; pedicels very slender, up 

 to *15 in. long. Calyx campanulate-oblong, about *14 in. long, very 

 shaggy ; teeth triangular-lanceolate, up to '06 in. long. Petals oblong, 

 acute suberect, 'S-^ in. long ; stigma punctiform. Fruit semiglobose- 

 turbinate, muricate, about 2 in. long and wide. 



Perak ; Scortechini ! 



Var. laxipilosa, Stapf and King. All parts loosely hairy with the 

 hairs as in the type. Leaves up to 6 in. by 3*5 in., rather thinner. 

 Common and special peduncles short or up to 3 in. long (together). 



Perak; Ipoh, Kinta, Curtis 3154 ! Pulau Bntong, Curtis ! 



33. Sonerila paradoxa, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 321. 

 A low, creeping herb, softly hirsute or shaggy all over ; hairs dense and 

 more or less spreading on the stem, petioles and all parts of the inflores- 

 cence (inclndinor the calyx), looser on both sides of the blades, reddish, 

 rather long and flexuous. Stem creeping, slender to rather stout, root- 

 ing the leaf-bearing, terminal part rising rarely more than *5 in. above 

 the ground. Leaves crowded, very dissimilar, the larger of a pair petioled, 

 asymmetrical, obliquely oblong or elliptic, shortly acuminate, unequally 

 cordate at the base, with a large rounded lobe ('25-5 in. long) on the 

 outer and a similar but much smaller lobe on the inner side, entire or 

 subentire, membranous, soft, light-green, 3-6 in. by 12-25 in., 6-8 

 nerved from near the base (3-5 nerves in the broader half), with oblique 

 curved transverse veins ; petiole *4-2 in. long or the uppermost very 

 short ; small leaves rotundate-ovate or reniform, cordate, *08-'4! in. in 

 diam. on very slender petioles ("OS-^ in. long). Cymes terminal and 

 from the upper axils, solitary with a pair of small petioled leaflets at 

 the middle of the peduncle, or in umbels of 2-4, ebracteate or inconspi- 

 cuously bracteate, few- to many-flowered, dense ; common peduncle 

 slender, usually 1-2 in. long ; special peduncles much shorter ; rhachis 

 very shaggy; bracts linear to filiform, ciliate, short, usually hidden 

 amono* the hairs of the rhachis or suppressed ; pedicels '08-1 in. long, 

 verv slender. Calyx campanulate-oblong, about *15 in. long, shaggy ; 

 teeth short, triangular. Petals oblong, acute, suberect, over 25 in. long, 

 white. Anthers oblong, obtuse, *1 in. long. Style over '3 in. long ; 

 stio-ma punctiform. Fruit semiglobose-turbinate, , 12- , 15 in. long, *18 in. 

 wide muricate-tuberculate. S. nioluccana, Jack. Misc. I, 8 ; Wall. Cat. 

 4089; Bean. PI. Jav. Ear. 215, (p.p.); Blume, Mus. I, 10 (p.p.) ; 

 Miq. Tfl. Ind. Bat. I, 562 (p.p.) ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Brit. 

 Ind. II, 537 (p.p.) ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 77 ; Cogn. in 

 DC Monogr. VII, 508 (p.p.) ; Stapf in Ann. Bot. VI, 311, 312 (p.p.); 

 and Koxb. Plor. Ind. I, 178 ? 



