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P. subumbellata, Clarke. Stem slender for a Pollia, creeping 

 and ascending 3 feet with long wiry roots, occasionally 

 branched, leaves thin, lanceolate, acuminate at both ends 

 with a long terminal point, 3-4 inches long, 1 inch wide, 

 glabrous, but slightly scabrid beneath, petiole 1 inch long, 

 sheaths remote, 1 inch long, covered with minute, short 

 processes. Panicle lax li inches long on a peduncle, 2 

 inches long with one narrow leaf on it. Branches slen- 

 der, f to 1 incb long, (in fruit) horizontal, slender, pubes- 

 cent. Bracts ovate, blunt, lower ones acute. Bracteoles 

 amplexicaul, rounded. Flowers white. Sepals orbicular, 

 glabrous. Petals thin, ovate, as long or little more. Sta- 

 mens 3, perfect. Anthers elliptic, thick, filaments slender, 

 longer than the petals, 3 abortive stamens with very 

 small anthers. Fruit elliptic, globose, blue. Seeds nu- 

 merous, irregularly angled, flattened on one side, grey, 

 punctate. 



Kedah, Gunong Geriang on limestone rocks (14836), 

 Bangtaphan, riverside (Keith). 



Absent from the peninsula. Distrib. Eastern Hima- 

 laya, Assam, etc. 



Differs from Clarke's description in its stalked in- 

 florescence and fruit hardly globose and pitted seed, but 

 much resembles his figure. 



Coimmlina nudifiora, L. Pedis, Kanga. Distrib. whole world. 



G. beAigalemis, L. Setul, Heaths. Distrib. Africa and Asia. 



C. salicifolia, Roxb. Perlis, Kanga (14835). Distrib. India, 

 Java. 



C. obliqua, Ham. Perlis, Tebing Tinggi. Distrib. Indo-Malaya. 



C. sikkimensis, C. B. Clarke. Setul, Bukit Rajah Wang. 

 Perlis, Chupeng. Distrib. India. 



Aneilema lineolatum, Kunth. Kedah, Gunong Geriang ; Perlis, 

 Tebing Tinggi ; Lankawi, Kwah (Curtis). 



Distrib. India from Sikkim toBurmab, Malay penin- 

 sula and islands. 



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