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branches, bracts and calyx thickly covered with glandular 

 hairs. Bracts linear, lanceolate. Flowers almost sessile 

 on a short pedicel with a linear, acuminate bract, sepals 5, 

 linear, as long as the corolla tube, J inch. Corolla white 

 tube straight, stout, lobes rounded, very small, all sparing- 

 ly hairy, not glandular, Stamens 4, unequal in 2 pairs, fila- 

 ments rather stoat, hairy, anthers 2 celled, cells oblong, 

 elliptic, yellow, separate. Style as long as the corolla, 

 glabrous, stigma rounded with two setaceous processes 

 behind it. Ovary glabrous. Capsule shorter than the 

 sepals, oblong slightly narrowed upwards, grooved on each 

 side, dehiscing longitudinally i inch long. Seeds numer- 

 ous. 



Perlis, Kanga, in fields. (15150). Near L. micrantha, 

 Benth, but curiously glandular hairy. 



h. sessiliflora, Bl. Lankawi paddy fields (Curtis, 2100). 

 Flowers pink. 



Distrib. India. Java and Japan, absent from the 

 Malay peninsula. 



L. heterophylla, Benth. var. reflexa. Lankawi paddy fields 

 (Curtis). Flowers white. Bangtaphanoi (Keith). Flowers 

 pale violet with darker stripes. Distrib. India, Borneo, 

 Japan and China. 



Herpestes ifionniera, H. B. K. Bangtaphanoi (Keith). Cos- 

 mopolitan. 



Torenia asiatica, L. Bangtaphan (Keith). Distrib. India, 

 Java, and China. 



T. ciliata, Sm. A single plant almost entirely glabrous, Perlis, 

 Chupeng, near the rocks in waste ground. Distrib. Malay 

 peninsula. 



T. polygonoides, Benth. Perlis, Chupeng. Distrib. Tenasserim. 

 Malay peninsula, and islands. 



Vandellia Crustacea, Benth. Perlis, Kanga. 



Distrib. tropics of old world, 



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