Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



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Stem erect, shrubby, from 4 to 6 feet in height, with 

 somewhat compressed villous branches. Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, obovate lanceolate, acute, attenuated to the petiole, 

 entire, punctate above with callous dots, villous below. 

 Petioles short, thickened at the base. Stipules interpetio- 

 lar, long, erect, tongue-shaped, obtuse, villous with a thick 

 middle rib formed by the union of one from each axil. Pe- 

 duncles terminal, and from the upper axils, supporting 

 dichotomous corymbs composed of unilateral spikes. Flow- 

 ers erect, sessile, disposed alternately in a double series. 

 Calyx superior, 4-cleft, with short acute laciniae. Corolla 

 white tinged with red, funnel-shaped, much longer than the 

 calyx, faux naked, limb erect, 4-parted, laciniae subrotund. 

 Stamina 4, inserted into the faux ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers linear. Style filiform, exsert. Stigma bifid. Capsule 

 crowned with the calyx, two-celled, many-seeded, with cen- 

 tral placentae. 



O. HETEROPHYLLA. (W. J.) 



Foliis oppositis subrotundo ovatis, altero nano. 

 Found in the interior of Bencoolen. 



This species is readily distinguished by the peculiarity of 

 one of the opposite leaves being always dwarf or abortive ; the 

 other is subrotund-ovate, with a bluntish acumen, smooth, 

 pale and whitish beneath. The stem is erect and tomentose. 

 Flowers in a small terminal cyme. Capsule compressed 

 obcordate. 



UROPHYLLUM. 



Calyx sub-quinquefid. Corolla infunduliform, five-parted, 

 with villous throat. Stigma five-lobed. Berry inferior, 

 globular, five-celled, many-seeded — Jack's MSS.* 



* This genus will be found in Roxburgh's Flora Indica, ed : Carey, 

 vol. ii. p. 184. It as well as both species, bear the affix Wall although 



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