THE GESNERACE^MJF THE MALAY PENINSULA, 83 



Cymes peduncled lax. Bracts small. Flowers medium sized 

 showy. Calyx campanulate lobes five. Corolla campanulate 

 rounded tube short, shortly spurred or gibbous, limb two lipped, 

 lobes rounded nearly equal. Stamens 4 perfect, anthers connate 

 bilocular, bases diverging. Ovary subglobose or ovoid, no disc. 

 Style short. Capsule depressed globose irregularly split. 

 Seeds minute obovoid reticulate. 



Species 3. Assam and Malay islands. 



Flowers large, base of corolla spurred 1. S. grandijlora 



Flowers small base of corolla not spurred 2. S. umbrosa 



S. grandifolia, Benth., Scroph. Ind. p. 57. 



Succulent herb with a fleshy stem about 6 inches tall. 

 Leave 6 inches long by 4 wide or less oblong obtuse 

 crenulate deep green above bullate glabrous inaequilater- 

 al pubescent on both sides petiole 1 inch long. Cyme 

 short pubescent 3 inches long with a few, 9 large 

 flowers. Bracts short ovate, flowers l£ inch across. Calyx 

 lobes lanceolate ovate pubescent. Corolla tube short 

 and broad with a short spur at the base, lobes short 

 broad rounded, violet with a central yellow bar reaching 

 to the spur. Stamens subequal 4, filaments slender, 

 anthers connate. Ovary ovoid, style shorter than the 

 stamens. Stigma capitate. Capsule. 



Clarke De C. Prodr. I.e. 190; Dietr. Syn. pi. 3, 582, 

 R. Br. Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. p. 121; Hook. Bot. Mag., 

 t. 5409; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2. p. 735; Clarke, Comm. and 

 Cyrt. Beng. t. 89, bis. 



Penang(Wallich6395) rocks near Balik Pulau (Curtis); 

 Perak, Larut (King's Coll. 2248). * 



Distrib. Burraah. Rare on rocks. 



S. umbrosa, Clarke, Comm. and Cyrt. Beng. 189; Dec. Prodr. 

 189. 



Stem 3 to 6 inches tall. Leaves ovate oblong falcate 

 inaequilateral strigosely hairy especially beneath 6-8 

 inches long 2-4 wide. Cymes spreading few to 10 



R. A. Soc., No. 43, 1905. 



