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6. Acaules. 



Steraless or nearly so. Leaves crowded. 



Flowers panicled, lips very unequal 40 D. violacea 



Flowers 1-2 racemose. Flowers 



large blue 41 D. lacunosa 



Flowers small. Leaves elliptic peltate 42 D. perdita 

 Leaves obovate crenulate, capsule very 



short and broad 43 D. puncticu- 



lata 

 Capsule linear narrow 44 D.heterophylla 



Leaves small entire silky 45 D.pumila 



Affinity doubtful. 



.Stem tall. Leaves alternate distant 



Panicles small adnate to petioles 46 D. lilacina 



§ 1. Elatae. 



1. D. corchorifolia, R. Br. Benn. PI. Jav. Bar. p. 119. Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. 2, Vol. 13, p. 1G4. 



A shrub from 4 to 6 feet tall much branched with a 

 stout woody stem. Leaves opposite but unequal ovate 

 subacute ins-equilateral, base rounded serrate 3-5 inches 

 long 1J-2 inches wide covered with soft short felted hair 

 on both sides, but most on the back, petiole 1-3 inches. 

 Panicles lax axillary 2-3 inches long, peduncles short 

 pubescent. Flowers numerous. Bracts cup-shaped. 

 Calyx entire cup-shaped £ inch long 5-toothed. Corolla 

 J inch long white apple-green in the throat, or often 

 purplish white, tube straight thick, lobes rounded, upper 

 lip recurved, base appressed to the b^oad decurved lower 

 lip which is much longer. Capsule cylindric, one inch 

 long pubescent splitting to near the tip. Clarke Mon. 

 Phan. 85., Ridl. Jourc. 3ot. 1890, p. 68. 



Selangor, Pahang Track (Ridley 8553) ; Perak, Bujong 

 Malacca, Ridley 9775, (Curtis 3130), ( King's Coll. 10* 979 

 & 10, 998), Kinta (Kings' Coll. 7220) ; Penang (Wallich 

 792) Government Hill (Curtis 1239), Maingay 1227. 



K. A. Soc, No. 43, 1905. 



