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2. a. Spikes curved downward, flowers white or very pale blue; bracts very narrow, 

 0.025 cM. broad; calyx 0.45 cM., corolla-tube 0.5 cM. long.-limb 0.2-0.25 cM. in 



diam.; stamens inserted in the throat . . 2. S. dichotoma. 



b. Spikes erect, flowers dark-blue with whitish throat; bracts 0.1-0.175 cM, broad; 

 calyx 0.6 cM., corolla-tube 0.8-1.3 cM. lon^-limb 0.3-0.5 cM. in diam.; stamens 

 inserted in the middle of the corolla-tube 3. S. jamaicensis. 



1. Stachytarpheta mutabilis (J ACQ.) VAHL, Enum., I, 209 (1805); Verb. 

 20. — Leaves bullate; spikes 0.5-0.6 cM. in diam.; bracts 0.9-1 by 0.15- 

 0.175 cM.; calyx 0.9-1.3 cM.; corolla 1.7-2'/ 2 cM.,- limb 1 cM. in diam. 



J a v a : EDELING, Batavia flowering in March 1 863. ').— C e 1 e b e s: KOOR- 

 DERS n. 19539 |3, Menado, flowers on 25-XIÎ-1894; native name: Rumput 

 puti.—T ernate: SMITH 603. 



A hybrid with S. jamaicensis has heen discovered by BACKER (Gunung 

 Bunder, W.-Java, 1909, crescit inter parentes, unica). 



Distribution: tropical America, imported into tropical Asia and Africa. 

 S. bogoriensis Z. et M.; Verb. 21.- It is very probable that this species is indentical 

 with S. jamaicensis VAHL, var. ft indica 11. J. L. The specimen „Zollinger n. 849" is 

 not present in the Herb. Bog. 



2. Stachytarpheta dichotcma VAHL, Enum., I, 207 (1 805); Verb. 21 .— A 



herb, reaching + 60 cM. in height, with a rather compressed habit; leaves 

 small, little bullate, usually 3-4 by 1.7-2.3 cM., sometimes reaching 10 by 

 4 cM.; the basal narrowing 0.8-1 cM. long; apex obtuse or rounded; spi- 

 kes 10-20 (-30) cM., gracile, usually curved downward; flowers white or 

 very pale blue; bracts almost linear, very narrowly acuminate, 0.45 by 

 0.025 cM. ; calyx with 4 larger teethlets on one and 1 smaller in the 

 sinus of the opposite side, 0.45 cM. long, 5-ribbed; corolla 0.5 cM. 

 long, limb 0.2-0.25 cM. in diam.; stamens inserted in the throat. 

 In Herb. Bog. only from: Java! 



Distribution: tropical America, imported into tropical Asia. 



3. Stachytarpheta jamaicensis VAHL, Enum. I, 206 (1 805); Verb. 22.— A 

 robust herb or undershrub, reaching 2 M. 'in height; spikes stout, long; 

 bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, the margins membranous; long acu- 

 minate; calyx with 4 acute teeth on one side, the opposite side with an 

 acute sinus, 0.6 cM.; corolla dark-blue with whitish throat, rarely white 

 (BACKER n. 1149 bis, Bantam, between Rangkas-Bitung and Tjilibis, W.- 

 Java); limb 0.3-0.5 cM. in diam.; stamens at about the middle or in 

 the upper part of the corolla-tube. 



Var. a typica H. J. L., nov. var.— Folia bullata, ovata, basi intégra, 

 + abrupte angustata; apice acuta, marginibus grosse acuteque serrata; 5- 

 9'/ 2 C M- longa, 2.7-5 cM. lata, petiolo ' v-1.6 cM.' longo; bracteae lan- 

 ceolato-acuminatae, 0.5 cM. longae, 0.1 cM. latae. 



In Herb. Bog. also from: 



Java!, Madura!, Sumatra!, Amboyna!, New-Caledonia!, Philippines!, 

 Caroline-Isl !, up to 1600 M. of altitude. 



I) This is probably the oldest record of the occurrence of this species in Java. 



