12 THE GESNERACE^E OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



loculicidally. Seeds innumerable minute oblong rugose with one 

 or more hyaline scabrid hairs from near the hilum, and one 

 from the apex. 



Species 64 India, Malaya and Hongkong. Chiefly Malayan. 



Polytrichium, seeds with a plume of hairs at one end, a single 

 hair at the other. 



Calyx tube very short 1 M. Motley i 



Sepals free to base 2 M. marmorata 



Haplotrichium, seeds with a single hair at each end 



Calyx deeply cut into lobes. 

 Leaves in whorls 3 M. speciosa 



Leaves in pairs. 



Corolla tube long 2-3 inches 

 Sepals hairy 

 Sepals glabrous 

 Corolla tube short thick under 

 an inch 

 Erect woody epiphytes 

 Calyx tubular, lobes short, 

 Calyx tubular lobes long acute 

 Creeping epiphytes, flowers 



axillary or terminal 

 Leaves glabrous 

 Leaves pubescent 

 Calyx cup-shaped small green 

 Calyx widely campanulate red 



1. M. Motleyi, Claris, Dec. Prodr. Ser. II. 5. p. 20. Epiphytic 

 erect or branches pendulous about 12-18 inches long 

 woody. Leaves opposite lanceolate or ovate lanceolate 

 acute edges undulate or not, fleshy, light green above, 

 pink beneath ; 3*4 inches long, ^-1^ inch wide, petiole J 

 inch long. Flowers solitary or few, axillary pendulous, 

 pedicel \ inch long or less. Calyx tube short \ inch 



Jour. Straits Branch 



4 



M. 



longifiora 



5 



M. 



Perakensis 



6 



M. 



Hildebrandtii 



7 



M. 



, Rhododendron 



8 



M. 



longicalyx 



9 



M. 



Lobbiana 



10 



M. 



radicans 



11 



M. 



Wallichii 



12 



M. 



obconica 



