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colored, the herbaceous parts subolivaceous. Leaves ovate to 
oblong-ovate, chartaceous or submembranaceous, 3 to 6 cm long, 1 
to 2.5 cm wide, acuminate to obtuse, base usually rather abruptly 
decurrent-acuminate, the cystoliths minute, numerous on both 
surfaces; lateral nerves about 5, slender, distinct; petioles about 
1 cm long. Inflorescence, terminal, racemose, or a narrow, de- 
pauperate panicle, up to 10 cm in length, pubescent, the flowers 
white, rather scattered, solitary, or the lower ones few and on 
very short branches. Pedicels 1 to 2 mm long, pubescent, the 
bracts very small, oblong, less than 1 mm long. Calyx cleft 
nearly or quite to the base into five, linear, acuminate, 3 to 4 
mm long, equal segments, rather minutely pubescent. Corolla- 
tube about 1.5 cm long, slender, cylindric, the lobes 5, spreading, 
two somewhat larger than the other three, elliptic, rounded, 4 
to 5.5 mm wide, 7 to 8 mm long. Stamens 2; anthers slightly 
exserted, 2-celled, cells contiguous, rounded, base acute, the pollen 
typical “spangenpollen.” Capsules 1 to 1.4 cm long. Seeds 4, 
flattened, foveolate, rounded, nearly 3 mm long. 
Amboina, Halong, on limestone rocks, Batoe merah, and near the town 
of Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1792 (type) August and September, 1913, altitude 
5 to 50 meters. The same form is represented by Merrill 5346 from Palmas 
Island, southeast of Mindanao, a small islet belonging to the Dutch East 
Indies, not to the Philippines. 
A species well characterized by its small size, suffrutescent basal parts, 
and slightly pubescent inflorescences which are terminal, racemose or 
depauperate-paniculate, and its comparatively small leaves. 
THUNBERGIA Retzius 
THUNBERGIA GRANDIFLORA Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 45, FI. Ind. ed. 
2, 3 (1832) 34, Spreng. Syst. 2 (1825) 828. 
Flemingia grandiflora Roxb. ex Rottl. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. 
4 (1803) 202. 
Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1786, September 16, 1913, in hedges, town of 
Amboina, September 16, 1913. 
A native of India, now widely cultivated in various tropical countries. 
THUNBERGIA A LATA Bojer in Hook. Exot. FI. (1823-27) t. 177. 
Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1788, July 22, 1913, along river banks, town of 
Amboina, locally known as bunga tikus. 
A native of tropical Africa, now widely distributed in the tropics of both 
hemispheres. 
SAN CHEZ I A Ruiz and Pa von 
SANCHEZIA NOBILIS Hook. f. in Curtis’s Bot. Mag. t. 5594. 
Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1787, July 25, 1913, along small streams in a sago 
swamp near the town of Amboina. 
A native of South America, probably of recent introduction into Amboina 
from Java, where it is cultivated as an ornamental plant. 
