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ovate lobes. Disc cylindric short. Capsule cylindric 3 

 inches long. Style short. 



Sumatra, side of Lintang river edge of forest (Forbes 

 2579 and 40). Straggling shrub. Flowers white, alt. 

 900 feet. 



Endemic. 



6. Loxocarpus, Br. 



Herbs scapigerous. Leaves ovate or oblong petiolate 

 pubescent. Flowers 1 or more in a peduncled cyme, 

 blue. Sepals 5 free to base or nearly so. Corolla 

 campanulate small hardly bilabiate, lobes rounded. 

 Stamens 2, filaments short thick sinuate, anthers reniform 

 large. Ovary oblong. Style longer than stamens. 

 Stigma capitate. Capsule follicular conic dehiscing 

 along the upper edge. 



Species 7. Malay Peninsula and Borneo. 



Flowers 1 or 2 1. L. semitorta 



Cymes dichatomous many flowered 

 Capsule short and broad 2. L. incana 



Capsule horn shaped 3. L. caerulea 



1. L. semitorta, Ridl. 



Stemless. Leaves numerous ovate or oblong obtuse 

 rather thick base broad -J-l inch long £-f inch wide 

 above green silky, beneath with thick red woolly raised 

 nerves, petiole 1-2^ inches long thick red woolly. Scapes 

 slender 2-2-J inches long silky. Flowers 1 or 2. Calyx 

 lobes lanceolate hairy J inch long. Corolla -J- inch long 

 tube broad oblique pale blue with* violate streaks in the 

 throat, lobes very short and indistinctly marked. 

 Stamens filaments short curved anthers reniform purple. 

 Style and ovary hairy shorter than corolla, larger than 

 stamens. Capsule \ inch long horn shaped acuminate 

 with the persistent style, base swollen. 



Didymocarpus semitorta, Clarke, Mon. Phan., p. 99 



R. A. Soc, No. 4 3, 1905. 



