86 THE GESNERACE^ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



above pubescent especially on the nerves beneath, 4-6 

 inches long 2-3 inches wide petiole 1 inch long. Flowers 

 solitary axillary on short £ inch long or lanceolate 

 slender hispid peduncles with 2 very small linear tracts 

 in the middle. Calyx tubular % inch long glabrous with 

 short teeth dull red. Corolla nearly straight 1 inch long 

 tube thick lobes rounded white. Capsule oblong 4 angled 

 £ inch long, seeds minute deeply reticulate. 



Clarke, Mon. Phan., p. 185 ; Busea subsessilis, Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. 2, p. 735. 



Selangor, Ginting Bidai (Ridley); Negri Sembilan, 

 BukitSulu(Cantley); Perak, Larut Hills (Ridley 2917) 

 (Scortechini 83 and 329a) (Kings Coll. 5342 and 2139); 

 Penang (Porter in Wallich's Coll. 808) (Maingay 1232/2) 

 (King) Tonoh (Machado). Tringanu, Bundi (Rostado), 



Distrib. Sumatra. 



Native Name : — Supujit Jantan, Supujit Bukit and 

 Sumpuh Munahon. The leaves are used for in baths in 

 jungle fever. 



In forests on banks at about 1000 feet and upwards. 

 2. C. megaphylla, Hemsl., Ic. PI. 1555. 



Herb about three feet tall. Stern bluntly 4 angled 

 pittey in centre pubescent. Leaves opposite subequal, 

 herbaceous ovate acutely acuminate coarsely serrate, 

 base rounded or subcordate 6-10 inches long 3 inches 

 wide pubescent, petiole 3-5 inches long. Cymes from a 

 little above the axils lax many flowered. Calyx tubular 

 pubescent shortly 5 toothed half an inch long, inflated 

 in fruit. Corolla about 2 inches long white obliquely 

 infundibuliform, lobes rounded subequal, ovary perfectly 

 bilocular. 



Perak, Larut Hills at 2100 feet alt. (Wray) (Scor- 

 techini), Gunong Batu Putih (King's Coll. 8155); Selang- 

 or, Ginting Peras (Ridley 7602). 



Endemic in forests. 



Jour Straits Branch 



