THE GESNERACE^E OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 81 



Dec Prodr. 9, p. 278; Miquel PI. Ind. Bat. 2, p. 

 736; 3Zoll. Verz. Ind. Arch. 1854, p. 55 ; Clarke, Mon. 

 Phan. 178. 



Pahang, Kota Glanggi (Ridley) ; Selangor, Kuala 

 Lumpur Oaves (Ridley, 8217) ; Perak, Telor Pinang, 

 Ipoh (Ridley), Batu Kurau (Scortechni 1580) (King's 

 Coll. 10,941), Sungei Ryah (Kunstler 983), Goping 

 (King's Coll. 5872) ; Lanka wi Islands (Curtis 2107;. 



Distrib. Java, Borneo, Sumatra (Karang Natu Peak 

 Forbes 3122) on limestone rocks. 



lJf. MonophylUea, R. Br. 



Succulent herbs with an unbranched stem and one large 

 leaf herbaceous cordate ovate sessile. Peduncles numerous 

 from the leaf base, with racemose or cymose inflorescence. 

 Flowers small white. Calyx deeply 5 cleft, lobes elliptic 

 obtuse. Corolla small white, tube short cylindric, limb distinct- 

 ly 2 lipped, lobes 5. Stamens 4 perfect, filaments short, anthers 

 cohering in pairs or altogether, disc unilateral or a complete 

 ring. Ovary 1 locular. Style short. Sfigma capitate. Capsule 

 membranous inclosed in the enlarged calyx irregularly splitting. 

 Seeds oblong minute reticulate. 



Species 7, Malay Peninsula and Islands and Siam. 



Leaf glabrous, sepals not spreading in fruit 1. M. Horsjieldi 



Leaf strigosely hairy, sepals spreading in fruit 



2, \f. patens 



M. Horsjieldi. R. Br. Benn. PI. Jav. Rar., p. 121; Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. 2, Vol. XIII, p. 160. 



Stem 6 inches to a foot tall. Leaf ovate cordate 6-12 

 inches long 1-12 inches wide glabrous glaucous beneath. 

 Racemes 2-7 often stout 9 inches long, flowers numerous 

 subsecund, pedicels \ inch long glabrous. Sepals gla- 

 brous rounded ovate ribbed. Corolla tube short cylindric, 

 upper lip bilobed, lower 3 lobed, lobes rounded, white. 

 Stamens 4 didynamous glabrous, anthers connate. Style 

 short, glabrous, pistil subglobose. Capsule globose enclos- 



R. A, Soc.No. 45, 1905, 



