56 THE GESNEHACE^E OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



small. Sepals linear pubescent £ inch long. Corolla 

 campanulate £ inch long- violet pubescent. Style longer, 

 pubescent. Capsule cylindric curved acuminate 1 inch 

 long glabrous, splitting for nearly the whole length. 



Pahang, Tahan River (Ridley 2170); Johor, Gunong 

 Janeng (Kelsall). 



Endemic. This and the two preceding species be- 

 long to a set more characteristic of Borneo and the 

 intermediate islands than of the peninsula. 



45. D pumila, n.sp. 



Stem slender woody 1-3 inches long. Leaves crowd- 

 ed at the top elliptic obovate . obtuse narrowed at the 

 base and inaequilateral -J-l-1 inch long £-1 wide above 

 silky pubescent beneath dotted with swollen hair-bases, 

 nerves about 6 pairs elevated hairy with appressed hairs. 

 Peduncles slender erect purple with silky appressed 

 white hairs 2-3 inches tall subterminal. Flowers 1-2 

 terminal very shortly pedicelled. Bract linear purple. 

 Calyx lobes linear purple pubescent. Corolla J inch 

 long with a short broad tube pubescent purplish white 

 hardly bilabiate lobes rounded pinkish white. Stamens 

 2, filaments slender short filiform. Ovary slender cylin- 

 dric. Style longer than stamens. Stigma discoid. Cap- 

 sule f inch long terete upcurved splitting along the 

 upper edge minutely pubescent. 



Selangor, The Gap — Semangko Pass, alt. 3000 feet 

 (Curtis 3782) (Burn-Murdoch). 



Endemic. On mossy banks. 



46. D. lilacina, Rid*., Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e. p. 330. 



Stem 12-15 inches long, entirely leafy brown pubes- 

 cent. Leaves alternate spreading lanceolate crenate 

 dentate pubescent dark green pubescent, 4 inches long 1 

 inch wide, petiole 1 inch long. Pedicels numerous rising 

 from the petiole near the leaf blade slender £ inch long 

 pubescent. Sepals very short lanceolate hispid, Co- 

 rolla campanulate rosy violet sparingly pubescent, lobes 



Jour. Straits Branch 



