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Stachytarpheta indica, L. 



A low shrubby plant with brilliant blue flowers pro- 

 duced one or two at a time on a long erect raceme. 



A few plants in Flying Fish Cove, collected also by 

 Andrews. I met with one plant with white flowers. 



Distribution all the Tropics 



This occurs as a weed or cultivated plant all over the 

 east, but seldom if ever except in waste ground. 

 Premna Lucidula, Miq. 



A small straggling tree with obovate glabrous leaves 

 narrowed at the base to a petiole, 3 inches long 2 inches 

 wide or less, petiole J inch long. Flowers J inch across 

 in a small terminal corymb shorter than the leaves 1 

 inch across tomentose. Calyx cup shaped. Corolla small 

 white. Drupes J inch long black. 



Rocky places above Andrew's Lookout : collected first 

 by Andrews, on ."the first inland cliffs." 



Distribution Java. 



Labiatae. 



Anisomeles ovata, R. Br. A coarse much branched 

 herb 2 or 3 feet tall, with a coarse scent. 



Common Flying Fish Cove, Waterfall, cemetery road 

 Phosphate Hill etc., in cleared ground or in open 

 woods. 



Distribution India, Malay Peninsula, and islands and 

 China. 



A more robust form than one generally meets with. 

 First collected by Lister. 



Leucas mollissima, Wall. 



Herb about 2 feet tall, branched, leaves opposite ovate 

 obtuse crenulate, shoots and both sides of the leaf 

 especially lower surface pubescent. Flowers crowded 

 in axillary whorls 11 or 12 in a whorl. Calyx J inch 

 long with alternate large and small teeth pubescent 



R. A.Soc, NO 45, 1905 



