84 THE GESNERACE^E OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



flowered peduncles and pedicels hairy. Calyx shortly 

 five-lobed, cup-shaped, lobes triangular, £ inch long in 

 flower, larger and spreading in fruit. Corolla ^ inch 

 long, white with a violet spot in the centre. Ovary 

 unilocular. Capsule circumciss near the base. 



Cyananthus umbrosa, Griff. Notul. 4, pi. 154;*Ic. PI. 

 Asiat. 437. 



Johor, Gunong Panti (Ridley 41C6); Pahang, Tahan 

 Woods (Ridley 2183); Selangor Woods at the Kuala 

 Lumpur Caves C Ridley 8224); Perak, Telok Pinang near 

 Ipoh (Ridley 9773), Kinta (King's Coll. 7144). 



Distrib. Assam. In damp rocky woods on the ground. 



16. Rkynchotecum, Bl. 



Shrubs little branched, young parts red-woolly. Leaves 

 opposite or alternate. Cymes axillary decompound. Flowers 

 small numerous. Calyx 5 cleft nearly to the base, lobes nar- 

 row. Corolla small campanulate, limb two-lipped, lobes 5 ovate 

 or oblong subequal. Stamens 4 perfect affixed to near the 

 corolla base, filaments short curved, anther cells 2 subparallel. 

 Ovary sessile ovoid, disc very small annular or absent. Style 

 much longer than ovary. Stigma subcapitate. Berry small 

 globose with persistent style, pericarp pulpy. Seeds very small 

 smooth. 



Species 9 Indo- Malayan. 



R. parviflorum, Bl. Bijdr. p. 775. 



A little-branched shrub about 3 feet tall, leafy above 

 upper parts ferruginous hairy. Leaves opposite lanceo- 

 late acute cuneate at the base serrate, 8 inches long, 3^ 

 inches wide, dark green glabrous above except the midrib, 

 covered with red wool beneath thickest on the nerves, 

 nerves 13 pairs petiole 1 inch long. Cymes numerous 

 short from the lower part of the stem laxly branched, 

 red-woolly. Flowers very small yellowish white. Sepals 

 nearly free to the base linear lanceolate acute woolly, £ 

 inch long. Corolla little longer campanulate lobes oblong 



Jour, Strait* Branch 



