82 THE GESNERACEiE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



ed in the enlarged sepals. Seeds oblong brown reticulate 

 very numerous. 



Selangor, Kuala Lumpur Caves (Curtis) (Beccari); 

 Perak, Gopeng (King's Coll. 515 and 443). 



Distrib. Sumatra, Batu Pantih (Forbes 2660a) Java 

 (Lobb) on limestone rocks. 



M. patens, n.sp. 



Stem 1-4 inches long viscid hairy. Leaf ovate cordate 

 to ovate lanceolate strigose hairy 6 inches long 4-6 inches 

 across. Racemes slender 4-20, pubescent 4-5 inches 

 long. Flowers in pairs, pedicels slender pubescent 

 ^ inch long in fruit. Sepals lanceolate hairy spreading 

 in a stellate manner in fruit, ribbed. Corolla tube short 

 lobes white. Stamens 4 glabrous didynamous. Pistil 

 ovoid. Style short thick glabrous. Capsule globose 

 glabrous. Seeds numerous black tessellated. 



Selangor, Kuala Lumpur Caves (Ridley 8222) (King's 

 Coll. 7052); Perak, Kinta, (Curtis 3136), Sungei Siput 

 (3135), Batu Kurau (Scortechini 1574 and 1579) Gopeng 

 (Kunstler 449). 



Endemic. On limestone rocks. 



M. glabra, n.sp. 



Stem succulent 6 inches to a foot tall. Leaf ovate 

 cordate obtuse glabrous glaucous beneath 2^-G inches 

 long 2 to 6 inches wide. Racemes slender glabrous 4 to 

 10, 2-8 inches long lax. Flowers numerous in pairs, 

 pedicels slender ^ inch long spreading deflexed. Sepals 

 |inch long in fruit lanceolate acute glabrous not spread- 

 ing. Corolla brown ond white. Capsule, enclosed in the 

 sepals cylin&ric oblong. 



Siam, Kasum (Curtis 3219). 



Endemic. 



15. Stauranthera, Benth. 



Herbs succulent pubescent, with alternate leaves, the oppo- 

 site . ones reduced, falcate elliptic acuminate inaequilateral. 



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