110 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



globose heads, axillary and terminal 4 inch through sessile 

 densely hairy. Bracts lanceolate hairy. Calyx to inch 

 long, lobes 4 as long as tube linear, covered with pale 

 multicellular hairs, bright green, corolla white, twice as 

 long dilated upwards glabrous, except the lobes, lobes 4 

 short ovate lipped with long white hairs. Stamens 4 

 anthers oblong white, filaments attached to the mouth 

 of the tube. , Style filiform. Capsule urnshaped, crowned 

 with the spreading calyx lobes, hairy, i inch long. Seeds 

 flat, thin, black, deeply pitted. 



Setul Heaths abundant in sandy spots. 



. Nearest perhaps to H. peduncularis King of Kedah 

 Peak, but the heads are actually sessile. The calyx lobes 

 with long hairs spread out flat after flowering, like stars, 

 hence its specific name. 



Oldenlandia rosea, n. sp. 



An erect tufted herb, 10 inches big, much branched, 

 stem and branches 4-angled, sprinkled with long scanty 

 hairs, branchlets verticelled, terminal onescymose, slender. 

 Leaves ovate or oblong ovate, half an inch long, 4 inch 

 wide, sub-coriaceous, hairy, narrowed to the petiole at the 

 base, apex sub-acute, petiole rs inch long ; upper leaves 

 narrower and smaller. Flowers cymose small, glabrous, 

 pedicels | inch long. Calyx tube funnel-shaped, not wing- 

 ed, lobes 4 ovate, acute, hairy. Corolla tube longer than the 

 sepals, lobes 4 nearly as long lanceolate, acute, all rose 

 pink. Stamens 4, protruded beyond the tube filaments 

 filiform, free to the base, anthers oblong. Style as long as 

 the petals, stigma entire club-shaped papillose. Capsule 

 to inch long sub-globose, obscurely lobed, crowned with 

 the sepals, pale, sparingly hairy, tip flattened, two celled. 

 Seeds numerous angled black. Setul Heaths, (15466). 



Near 0. dichotoma, but more bushy with rose pink, 

 not violet flowers. The flowers are just the colour of 

 those of Erythroea Centaurium. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



