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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



Seeds very numerous, attached to the inner surface and 

 edge of the lobes, small, oblong, furnished with a long 

 thread or awn at each end, and having a rounded apophysis 

 above. 



2. ^SCHYNANTHUS RADICANS. 



A. caule radicante, calycibus villosis. 

 Simbar burong. Malay, 



Found in the forests of the interior of Sumatra growing on 

 the trunks of old trees, with its root sometimes on the 

 ground, sometimes on the tree. 



Branches long and slender, radicating at the joints. Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, varying from ovate to elHptic-lan- 

 ceolate, sometimes almost cordate at the base, acute, very 

 entire, the margins somewhat reflexed, villous, thick, fleshy 

 and veinless, whitish, and finely punctate with depressed 

 dots beneath ; from one to two inches long. The old leaves 

 become quite smooth, particularly on the upper surface. 

 Peduncles axillary, sometimes also terminal, generally two- 

 flowered, villous. Flowers drooping, of a deep crimson 

 colour. Bracts two, at the base of the pedicels. Calyx 

 tubular, villous ; mouth quinquefid. Corolla more than twice 

 as long as the calyx, villous without ; tube gibbous at the 

 base, contracted opposite the middle of the calyx, infundi- 

 buliform above and somewhat curved ; limb subringent ; 

 upper lip erect, two-lobed ; segments small and approximate, 

 lower three-parted. Stamina four, exsert ; anthers two- 

 celled, each pair united by their apices; there is no rudi- 

 ment of a fifth stamen. Style a little longer than the stamina. 

 Stigma thick, somewhat funnel-shaped. Capsule pedicellate, 

 about eighteen inches long, cylindrical, two-valved, two- 

 celled, cells bipartite by the revolute lobes of the septa. 

 Seeds very numerous, aristate at both ends, precisely as in 

 the preceding species. 



(To be continued.) 



