78 THE GESNERACE.E OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



B. brachyandra, n.sp. 



Stemless. Leaves obovate serrate hairy dark green, 

 obtuse 3 inches long by 1^ inch wide, nerves 6 or 7 pairs 

 covered beneath with long red hairs, back of leaf punc- 

 tate. Scape short few flowered about 3 inches long 

 hairy unbranched. Calyx lobes free nearly to base linear 

 hairy green nearly as long as corolla lobes. Corolla 

 tube very short, lobes broad rounded oblong explanate 

 subequal pale lilac, about ^ inch across. Stamens 4, fila- 

 ments very short, anthers broad waxy sub-globose conni- 

 vent round the pistil. Style longer slender curved 

 white. Capsule cylindric narrow 1 inch long scabrid, 

 straight, on pedicels elongated to \ inch. 



Lankawi, Gunong Chinchang at Kwaia Malacca 

 (Curtis). 



Found quite dried up in February 1899, and brought 

 alive and flowered in the Botanic Gardens, Penang. 



11. Orchadocarpa, n. gen. 



Herb or shrublet with opposite unequal leaves. Flowers 

 small blue racemose or cymose, pedicelled. Sepals free to 

 base narrow lanceolate. Corolla tube short, limb 2 lipped un- 

 equally. Stamens 2, filaments short exseri sintuate, glabrous, 

 anthers bilobed reniform connivent by their edges. Ovary 

 hairy oblong style short. Stigma capitate. Capsule oblong 

 hairy enclosed in the sepals. 



Sp.O. lilaciv a, n.sp. 



Stem short to 4 inches long stout woody. Leaves 

 crowded at the top long petioled thin ovate or ovate 

 lanceolate acute, strongly serrate covered with closely 

 felled short hairs, base broad inaequilateral 3 to 7 indies 

 long 1^-3 inches wide, petiole slender 3-6 inches long. 

 Peduncle 3-4 inches lon^r pubescent villous bearing a 

 terminal pubescent umbelliform panicle, or simply race- 

 mose. Sepals linear pubescent £ inch long. Corolla 

 pale lilac- blue, tube very short, limb distinctly bilabiate, 

 upper lip smaller, lobes snort rounded, lower lip longer 



Jour. Straits Branch 



