JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OE BENGAL. 
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Vol. LXXIV., Part #f. — Extra Number, 1905. 
Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula.— By Sir George 
King, K.C.I.E., LL.D., E.R.S., late Superintendent of the Boyal 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and J. Sykes Gamble, O.I.E., E.R.S., 
late of the Indian Forest Department. 
No. 18. 
This part contains nine Natural Orders, viz., Nos. 79 Hydrophyllacece 
to 85 Lentibulariacece inclusive, as well as Nos. 87 Bignoniacece and 88 
Pedalinece. The whole part is the work of Lieut.-Col. D. Prain, I.M.S., 
F.R.S., Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, with the 
exception of Boraginece, which has been done by Sir George King, 
and Hydrophyllacece and Bignoniacece, which have been done by 
Mr. Gamble. 
The nine Orders dealt with contain 53 genera and 150 species : of 
the species none are here described for the first time. 
Natural Order No. 86 Gesneracece will follow later on with the 
three Orders, 75 Apocynacece, 76 Asclepiadacea, and 77 Loganiacece , 
the preparation of which is not yet quite complete. 
Order LXXIX. HYDROPHYLLACEiE. 
Annual or perennial herbaceous plants. Leaves radical or alternate, 
rarely opposite, entire or dentate, simple or pinnately or palmately 
lobed. Flowers usually unilaterally sub-sessile on the branches of a 
bifid or dichotomous scorpioid cyme, or else pedunculate in the axils 
or on the summits of the branches ; regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 
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