54. A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 
H. connata, Wall. Temengoh woods and banks along the 
road between Grit and Lenggong. This plant which 
I identify from description has been very incompletely 
described, the flowers not having been described at all. 
It is a very pretty little plant, and extremely different 
from any other Hedyotzs here in its comparatively large 
rosv flowers. In neither the Flora of British India 
nor in the Materials is the corolla ‘described at all. <A 
complete description therefore may perhaps be advisable. 
I met with two forms. That at Temengoh was much 
longer and with more distant nodes and more lanceolate 
leaves; the one on the track near Grit more dwarfed 
and compact with oblong or oblong lanceolate leaves. 
Stems prostrate a foot or more long or much shorter, 
rooting at the nodes, the tip ascending often branched. 
- Leaves in pairs, except at the top where they form a 
whorl of 4 or 5, sessile or very shortly petioled, acute 
slightly narrowed at the base, 1-2 inches long 3 inch 
wide thinly coriaceous and stiff, nerves very incon- 
spicuous, pubescent beneath otherwise glabrous. Stipu- 
les cup-shaped with several 12 or more bristly setae. 
Flowers in a dense head surrounded by the whorl of 
leaves, and mixed with long slender scabrid bristles. 
Calyx lobes lanceolate acuminate broad 4 margins 
seabrid. Corolla 4 inch long rose pink, tube cylindric 
lobes 4 or 5 oblong obtuse, mouth and base of lobes 
densely covered with white woolly hairs. Stamens 
5 adnate to tube with short filaments includeds 
anthers linear oblong. Style filiform with 2 short 
arms papillose inside. Capsule ellipsoid, 2 celled. Seeds 
very numerous black irregularly angled punctate. 
King calls the leaves membranous, Hooker coriace- 
ous. They are stiff and hard when dry, much like those 
of Spermacoce hispida. The flowers are dimorphic. 
The stamens being often at the base of the tube instead 
of near the mouth. 3 
Jour. Straits Branch 
