76 THE GESNERACE^ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA, 



tate, beneath covered with brownish tomentum, nerves 

 conspicuous, petiole J~J inch long. Panicles axillary 

 dense an inch long with short branches brownish woolly. 

 Buds browu woolly. Calyx longer than the corolla tube. 

 Sepals linear lanceolate thick tomentose outside. 

 Corolla £-^ inch across white lobes short oblong round- 

 ed, anthers oblong obtuse. Capsule fusiform very thick 

 £ inch long tipped with the long style. 



Lanka wi, on a small island north of Kwah (Curtis 

 3682 and 2565). 



Endemic. 



9. B. parviflora, n.sp. 



Stem slender shrubby branching covered with ferrugin- 

 ous tomentum. Leaves lanceolate acuminate, base 

 cuneate unequal 4 inches long \-l\ inch wide above 

 glabrous, beneath covered with rusty wool, nerves ele- 

 vated 11 pairs. Peduncle 6 inches long.slender glabrous, 

 panicle umbellate of 6 slender branches in a terminal 

 whorl, branchlets glabrous numerous slender. Bracts 

 very narrow linear. Flowers very small numerous 

 white, pedicels slender £ inch. Sepals lenceolate glab- 

 rous 5. Corolla very small white, tube very short, lobes 

 upper subacute lower ones oblong, anthers large reni- 

 form. Style shorter. Capsule very slender cylindric 

 \ inch long terminated by the slender style. 



Perak, Hot Springs at Ipoh and Sungei Siput, not 

 common (Curtis 3134), Kinta (King's Coll. 7,108). 

 Endemic. On limestone rocks. 



5. Phylloboea, Benth. 



Herbs or half shrubby. Leaves opposite petioled. Cymes 

 pedunculate many flowered. Bracts large conspicuous. Flow- 

 ers large pink or blue. Calyx large 2 lipped, one lip 2 lobed, 

 the other 3 lobed or of 3 large connate sepals. Corolla broad- 

 ly campanulate 2 lipped 3-5 lobed. Stamens 2 short, anthers 

 large rounded. Capsule lanceolate at length twisted. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



