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small very shortly pedicelled. Calyx lobes lanceolate 

 brown tomentose as long as the corolla tube. Corolla 

 hardly £ inch across white lobes oblong obtuse equal not 

 bilabiate. Stamens 2 filaments sigmoid thick, anthers 

 rounded ovaid. Style longer. Stigma capitate. Capsule 

 ■J inch long cylindric scabrid rather thick, straight. 



Didymocarpus regularise Ridl., Journ. Linn. Soc, 

 XXXEI, 515. 



Lankawi Islands (Curtis). 



Endemic, 



9. P. polita, n.sp. 



Stemless. Leaves in a rosette ovate crenate obtuse, 

 base rounded above deep shining green, beneath ocreous 

 tomentose with nerves and nervules reticulate /-8 inches 

 long 4-4^ inches wide, petiole 4 inches long. Peduncle 

 over a foot long slender with brown ocreous fur, branches 

 few 3 inches long, umbellate. Bracts linear oblong 

 obtuse brown woolly. Pedicels £ inch long. Calyx 

 lobes linear green J inch long. Corolla subbilobed -£ inch 

 across white back tinted pink, lobes rounded. Stamens, 

 2, filaments thickened at the base, anther orange reni- 

 form. Style stout pink at base white above. Stigma 

 capitate. 



Perak, Bujong Malacca (Curtis 3214 part). 



Perhaps a hybrid between P. capitata and P. vulpina. 



Endemic. 



10. P. vulpina, n.sp. 



Stem 2 inches long thick coverid with red wool. 

 Leaves elliptic rounded at each end crenulate above 

 sprinkled with pale multicellular hairs, beneath covered 

 densely with branched rufous hairs arranged stellately, 

 nerves beneath strongly elevated, 6 pairs, reticulations 

 elevated 1^-3 inches long 1-2 inches wide, petiole 1-3 

 inches densely red woolly. Peduncles slender 6-8 inches 

 long red, with a few branched hairs branches slender 1-3 



Br* A, Soc, No. «, 1905. 



