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long as wide, tube short broad campanulate, upper lobes 

 oblong obtuse, lower ones truncate, median one longer, 

 blue with a violet mouth. Stamens exsert, filaments 

 suddenly thickened in the middle sigmoid, anthers con- 

 nate deep violet. Style slender. Capsule |-^ inch long 

 lanceolate acute hornshaped upcurved viscid. 



Perak, Larut Hills at 5000 feet alt. (Ridley) (King's 

 Coll. 6990) (Scortechini 1427), Gunong Bubu (Wray 

 3809) ; Selangor, Bukit Hitam (Kelsall). 



Endemic. On rocks. 



7. Paraboea. 



Herbaceous plants or with a shrubby stem. Leaves 

 usually in a rosette tomentose or hairy. Flowers small 

 white or pink in simple or panicled cymes, peduncle 

 usually long calyx small. Corolla white explanate cam- 

 panulate with a very short tube, distinctly two lipped or 

 nearly regular, lobes equal oblong or unequal blunt. 

 Stamens 2 fertile, filaments thick short, anthers large 2- 

 celled connivent by the tips. Disc none. Ovary sessile. 

 Style longer than the stamens stout. Stigma small 

 capitate. Capsule straight narrow slender not twisted 

 splitting longitudinally. 



Species about 20. Siam- Malaya. 



Campanulatae. Corolla campanulate. 







Panicle large many flowered. 







Leaves hairy 



1. 



P. cordata 



Flowers few 2 or 3 only 







Leaves almost or quite glabrous 







Leaves elliptic nearly entire 



2. 



P. catnpanulata 



Leaves ovate crenate 



3. 



P. Scortechinii 



Leaves lanceolate linear 



4. 



P. caerulea 



Flowers very small crowded in a 



head 





few. Leaves pubescent 



5. 



P. pyroliflora 



R. A. Soc, No. 43, 1905. 



