60- THE GESNERACEiE OF THE MALAY PENISULA. 



obtuse 1-3 inches long \-2\ inches wide above sprinkled 

 with multicellular hairs. Flowers axillary on a peduncle 

 •J inch long hairy 1-2 sessile enclosed in a green cupular 

 bilobed bract -J inch long edges recurved and covered 

 with multicellular hairs. Sepals narrowly lanceolate 

 linear hairy nearly -J inch long. Corolla tube as long as 

 the bract, hairy blue, little longer than the sepal lobes, 

 rounded. Style and ovary slender hairy. Capsule 

 cylindric slender curved 2^ inches long. 

 Lankawi on damp rocks (Curtis 2120). 



Endemic. 



6. Ch. Glasgovii, n.sp. 



A weak herb one foot tall branched. Leaves ovate 

 obtuse thin, 1-3 inches long f-2 inches wide, base round- 

 ed, retuse nerves 5 pairs alternate, above sprinkled with 

 multicellular hairs, beneath paler with a few hairs on the 

 nerves otherwise nearly glabrous, petiole slender 1-2 

 inches long glabrous. Bract convolute bilobed, lobes 

 ovate hairy 1 inch long. Sepals lanceolate acuminate 

 narrow hairy J inch long. Corolla tube 1 inch long 

 minutely hairy dark violet. Capsule cylindric curved 3 

 inches long glabrous. 



Perak, Waterloo near Kuala Kangsa (C.Robertson- 

 Glasgow). 



Endemic. 



Ch. Forbesii, n.sp. 



Stem over a foot tall zigzag, internodes 1^ inch long 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate ovate acuminate 6 inches 

 long 3 inches ' across base unequal, sprinkled on both 

 sides with sport pale conic multicellular hairs, petiole 

 ^-f inch long angled and ribbed. Peduncles axillary on 

 both sides of the stem, slender short £--J inch long hairy 

 bearing 2 or 3 flowers on short pedicels. Bracts ovate 

 hairy not connate ^ inch long caducous. Calyx tubular 

 cylindric ^ inch long shortly lobed with 5 ovate lobes. 

 Corolla white f inch long pubescent. Stigma bifid with 



Jour. Straits Branch 



