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Card. Bull. Singapore 69(1) 2017 
Additional specimens examined. PENINSULAR MALAYSIA: Kedah: Gn. Baling, 25 Nov 
1941, Corner s.n. (SING). Perak: Gn. Rapat, 21 Jul 2009, Rafidah FRI64347 (KEP); ibidem, 
26 May 2010, Rafidah FRI 64544 (KEP); Gn. Tasek, Perak Tong Temple, 21 Jul 2009, Rafidah 
FRI 64348 (KEP); ibidem, 23 Oct 1958, Sinclair 9844 (SING); Ipoh, 4 Jul 1917, Burkill 2552 
(SING); ibidem, Aug 1898, Corner s.n. (KEP); ibidem, Feb 1904, Ridley 11952 (SING); 
ibidem, Feb 1904, Ridley s.n. (KEP); ibidem, 18 Aug 1986, Weber UPM 4167 (KEP); ibidem, 
18 Aug 1986, Weber s.n. (KEP); Kuala Dipang F.R., 1898, Ridley s.n. (SING); Tambun, 10 Sep 
1920, Burkill 6284 (SING); Sg. Siput Utara, 29 Jan 2015, Rafidah FRI 82017 (KEP). Perlis: 
Bkt. Keteri, 28 Nov 2013, Rafidah FRI 75880 (KEP). 
Notes. Microchirita sericea occurs west of the Main Range, replacing M. rupestris in 
the south. 
6. Microchirita viola (Ridl.) A.Weber & Rafidah, Taxon 60: 779 (2011). - Chirita 
viola Ridl., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 32: 516 (1896); Ridley, J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 
43: 58 (1905); Ridley, FI. Malay Penins. 2: 525 (1923); Henderson, Malay. Wild FIs., 
Dicots. 350 (1959); Wood, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 33: 190 (1974). - TYPE: 
Malaysia, Peninsular Malaysia, Kedah, Langlcawi, Sep 1890, Curtis 2570 (lectotype 
SING [SING0042993], designated here; isolectotypes SING [SING0042994, 
SING0042995]). (Fig. 2H, 3K-L, 10) 
Chirita hamosa auct. non R.Br.: Wood, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 33: 191 
(1974), pro parte. 
Short-lived, caulescent, branching herbs. Stems reddish or pale green, beginning to 
flower at the one-leaf stage, to 30 cm tall, 5-7 mm diam., intemodes swollen, to 10 cm 
long, finely hairy. Leaves opposite, decussate; petiole pale green, sometimes reddish, 
to 6 mm long, with glandular hairs; lamina ovate, sometimes orbicular, 3-8.5 x 2-5.5 
cm, yellowish green to pale green above, whitish green or reddish beneath, coriaceous 
when fresh and dry, sparsely strigose hairy on both surfaces, base slightly cordate or 
rounded, margin serrate, apex acute; midrib sunken above, prominent beneath, lateral 
veins 6-16 pairs on each side of the midrib, intercostal veins reticulate. Inflorescence 
crested epiphyllous, up to 3 2-paired flowers; bracts absent; pedicels fused to the 
petioles, green or reddish, to 1 cm long, glandular and eglandular hairy. Calyx green or 
reddish green, lobes narrowly ovate, 7-10 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, outer surface ciliate, 
inner surface glabrous. Corolla tube pale violet, sparsely hairy outside, 2-2.2 cm long, 
curved downwards, throat very pale purple, glandular bead-lilce golden yellow hairs, to 
1.5 mm long, apically swollen in a cluster in the throat above the anthers; lobes violet, 
each with conspicuous dark purple stripes, upper lobes rounded, slightly imbricate, 
not spreading, 4-5 x 3.5-5 mm, lower lateral lobes elliptic, spreading, 5-6 x 4.5-6 
mm, lower central lobe elliptic, elongated, curved downwards, 6.5-10 x 4.5-6 mm. 
Stamens, filaments white, sometimes reddish at base, inserted at 5-8 mm from the 
base of the corolla, 1.8-2 mm long, slightly geniculate at the point of attachment; 
