35a 
Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Singapore : Wallich 3897 ! King's Collector ! Hullett ! Murton, 
Kuntze ! Schomburgk ! Anderson ! Kurz ! Malacca : Maingay ! 
Griffith ! Goodenough ! Penang : Bouton ; Deschamps ! Perak : Gapis 
Pass, Curtis 2683 ! 
2. Torenia peduncularis, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3956. An erect 
annual herb 1 to 2 feet high ; branches acutely 4-gonous, uniformly hairy 
upwards, below ciliate only on the angles with recurved hairs. Leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, base cordate, apex acuminate, margin serrate ; lamina 
membranous 1 to 2 in. long, -5 to 1 in. wide, sparingly hairy on both 
surfaces ; petiole slender, sparsely hirsute, -5 to -75 in. long. Floivers 
axillary solitary, or the uppermost in a sub-umbellate corymb or a 
terminal raceme, the lowest in the raceme leaf-opposed ; pedicels -3 in., 
in fruit -5 in. long, thickened upwards, shorter than the calyx ; brac- 
teoles linear-subulate small. Calyx-tube narrow-ovate, -6 in., in fruit 
■85 in. long, wings broad, decurrent on the pedicel, the margins ciliate. 
Corolla -75 in. long, little exserted, tube yellow below, pale blue above, 
lateral lobes of lip with darker blotches. Stamens with glabrous 
filaments not appendaged. Disk cupular. Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. 
IV. 276. T. edentula, Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 410 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4229. 
Penang : Schomburgk ! Malacca : Goodenough ! Perak : Scorte- 
cliini ! Ridley 9457 ! 9758 ! Ipoh, Curtis ! Nicobars : Kamorta, 
Kurz ! — Distrib. Indo-China, Java, Timor. 
3. Torenia ciliata, Sm. in Bees Cyclop. V. 36. An erect annual 
herb, 1 to 2 feet high, branches acutely 4-gonous, uniformly hairy up- 
wards, below ciliate only on the angles. Leaves ovate, base wide 
cuneate, apex obtuse or sub-acute, margin entire or crenate ; lamina 
membranous 1-5 to 2-5 in. long, ‘75 to 1'25 in. wide, sparingly hairy 
on both surfaces ; petiole winged above -25 to -5 in. long, sometimes 
shorter. Floivers in distant pairs, racemed at the ends of the branches ; 
pedicels -3 in., in fruit -4 in. long, thickened upwards, as long as or 
longer than the calyx ; bracteoles -3 in. long, linear, hirsute, as long as 
the flowering pedicels. Calyx very narrow-tubular, -4 in., in fruit 
•6 in. long, wings distinct but narrow, the margins ciliate. Corolla 
•75 in. long, distinctly exserted, light blue. Benth. in DC. Prod. 
X. 411 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 689 ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 279. 
T. racemosa, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 38 ( not of Griff.). T. ccerulea, Miq. Flor. 
Ind. Bat. Suppl. 562. T. flava, Wall. Cat. 3957 (in part) ; Miq. Flor. 
Ind. Bat. Suppl. 562 ( not of Ham). 
Penang : Wallich ! Deschamps ! Perak : King’s Collector ! Scor- 
techini ! Ridley ! — Distrib. Sumatra, Timor. 
Very near to T. peduncularis, and really only separable by its smaller more winged 
calyx. It may be remarked that Kurz in Herb. Calcutta has suggested that T. ciliata 
