IS LiPPiA. 



0.3—1 cM.; pairs of nerves 2—3; bracts deltoid with 

 straight, dentate-ciliate apex, sometimes shortly, abruptly 

 apiculate. 



Sumatra: in H. A. R.— T. sub no. 043912; P. Pontjang 

 Kitjil in the bay of Tapanuli; flow, in Oct. 



New-Guinea : Vecsteeg no. 1845, flow, and fr. on 

 30— X— 1907. — BranderhoTst no. 58, fr. on 10— X— 1907. 



Distribution of the species: cosmopolitical in tropics 

 and subtropics, especially in the neighbourhood of the 

 sea-shore. (Sumatra!, Java!, Borneo!, Celebes!, Timor!, 

 New-Guinea!, Luzon, Malacca, New-Ireland!) 



2. L. geminata Kunth. in H. B. et K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 

 PL, 11, 266, (1817); Benth. and v. MuelL, Fl. Austr. V, 34; 

 Schauer. DC. Prodr. XI, 582; Hook. f.Fl. Br. Ind.. IV, 563; 

 ? Martius Fl. Brasil. IX, 235. (L. gem. Rich.) — L. asperi- 

 folia Poepp. ex Cham, in Linnaea VII, 215, (1832). — L. 

 citrata Willd. ex Cham. I.e., 214. 



A shrub; branches subquadrangular, strigosely hispid; leaves 

 opposite or ternate, ovate or ovate-oblong, base cuneate, decur- 

 rent, apex acute, margins serrate, pairs of nerves 3; above 

 strigosely-hispid^ beneath softly greyish hairy, 5—10 cM. long, 

 lemon-flagrant; inflorescences capitulate, at first subglobose, 1.3 

 cM. long, ultimately subcylindrical, reaching 2.5 cM.; peduncles 

 short, hardly as long as the petioles, solitary or two of them 

 in the axils of the leaves; bracts ovate, cuspidate-acuminate, 

 greyish- villous, ciliate, somewhat shorter than the corolla-tube; 

 corolla violet. 



Distribution: tropical America, imported into Bengal and 

 Queensland. 



We make mention of this species, finding it rather probable 

 that it should occur in Malaya, since it is imported into Bengal 

 and Australia. 



3. L. asperifolia Rich. Cat. Hort. Med. Par., 67, (year?); 

 Schauer, DC. Prodr. XI, 583; Koorders, Exk. fl. v. Java, 

 III, 133; Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 906; Martius. Fl. 

 Brasil. IX, 236. - L. scabra Hochst. Flora XXVIII. 



