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are often very large quite flat, azure blue or rose color, 

 and very beautiful. The other section has a slender 

 peduncle rising from the tuft of leaves, as in Paraboea, 

 and the leaves are often covered with red or ochre wool 

 beneath, the flowers are smaller often quite small, white 

 rose or lilac. All the species recorded from the Penin- 

 sula, 9 in number, are endemic. 



Phylloboea differs only from Boea in the calyx being trifid 

 instead of five lobed. Two species are known, one from 

 Burma and the endemic species of the Lankawi islands. 

 The latter has rather weak leafy stems, with silvery 

 leaves like those of Boea, and purple blue flowers. 



Boeica is a small genus of five species differing from Paraboca 

 only in having four complete stamens. Four of the 

 species which are half shrubby plants with much branch- 

 ed cymes on a long slender peduncle, are found in India 

 and Burma. The only one from our region is a very 

 small plant with a short peduncle bearing 2 or 3 pink 

 flowers which occurs in the Lankawi islands. 



In the remaining genera of the order the fruit is not a long 

 slender beaked capsule but oblong, or almost globose, or 

 a pyxis. 



Orchadocarpa is a monotypic genus, containing a single species, 

 a dwarf plant with a lax cyme of lilac flowers, the sepals 

 free to the base, longer than the small oblong hairy 

 capsule. It seems most nearly allied to Loxonia a native 

 of Java and Sumatra. 



Rhyncoglcssiim is a weak erect almost glabrous herb with a 

 raceme of blue flowers. Two species are known, one 

 from the Philippines, the other occurring in India and 

 Burma and through all the Malay islands to the Philip- 

 pines. It seems to be very common throughout this 

 region but is rare in the Peninsula. 



Epithema is a small genus of soft limestone rock herbs with a 

 tuft of very small blue or white flowers in a head, and a 



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