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teeth narrow, acuminate, linear, pubescent, ro inch long. 

 Corolla whitest inch long, hairy outside, tube shorter than 

 the limb cylindric, upper lobe elliptic, ovate, apex rounded, 

 lower longer, 3 iobed, lateral lobes acute, narrow, short, 

 median broader, rounded, ^palate with radiating raised 

 nerves, Stamens 2. shorter than the corolla, glabrous, 

 filaments cylindric, anther cells half elliptic, separate, 2, 

 one slightly above the other, tail very short, ovoid, not 

 conspicuously white. Style filiform, pubescent, ovary 

 pubescent. Capsule s inch long, pubescent outside, rather 

 broad. Seeds ovoid, fiat, reticulate. 



Perils, Bukit Lagi, (Feb. 27) 15051, allied to J. 

 ptychostoma, Nees. but more shrubby with hairy flowers. 



Vicliptcra rosea, n. sp. 



Herb, stem 4-angled, glabrous, about a foot tall, 

 branched. Leaves opposite, equal, lanceolate or ovate, base 

 subcuneate, apex shortly, bluntly acuminate, glabrous ex- 

 cept on midrib above and nerves beneath with brownish 

 adpressed hairs, nerves. 6 pairs, H to 3 inches long, 1-lf 

 inch wide, petiole i inch long. Flowers crowded in cymes 

 in the upper axils and forming a terminal spike. Bracts 

 ovate, cuspidate, nearly sessile, i inch long, green, hairy, 

 margins fringed with longer hairs, Flowers sessile, sepals 

 linear, free, nearly to base | inch long, pubescent. Corolla 

 pink, tube i inch long, cylindric, lobes as long linear, 

 oblong, obtuse, slightly hairy at the base. Stamens 2, 

 filaments long, yellow, glabrous, anthers curved, 2 celled, 

 elongate. Style filiform, ovary, oblong, hairy. Disc cupu- 

 lar. Fruit i inch long, narrow, hairy on the back, seed 

 elliptic, flat, cinnamon brown, margins pustulate. 



Kedah, Gunong Geriang ; on dry slopes of limestone 

 rock (15050) a. Pedis, Bukit Lagi (5050). Abundant. 



Very like D. Macleari of Christmas Island, from 

 which it differs in its obovate more rounded bracts, pubes- 

 cent and very shortly mucronate, the lower ones in the 

 spike being rounded and not armed. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



