LXXIV. RUBIACE 2 E. 
Ophiorrhiza .] 
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Hills; Temengoh. Penang, Waterfall (Curtis); Penara Bukit. 
Tomoh (Machado). Kelantan, Chaning Woods. 
O. erabescens, Wall. Cat. 6233, was based on a plant collected in Ava. 
The specimen is in a poor condition and unrecognisable, but it is certainly 
not the plant described by King as erubescens. 
(3) O. remotiflora Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. x. 140. 
Herb. Leaves very thin, glabrous, ovate-lanceolate acuminate 
acute, base cuneate ; nerves slender 12 pairs; 7 in. long, 3 in. wide 
or less ; petioles slender, 1 in. long. Inflorescence scurfy, 4 in. 
long; branches 3-5 in. long or less, slender. Flowers numerous, 
distant, secund; pedicels *05 in. long, scurfy. Calyx tubular, 
lobes linear acute, -08 in. long. Corolla slender, tubular, *25/in. 
long, lobes short, lanceolate. Stamens included. Capsule *25 in. 
wide, slightly indented at tip. Hab. Pahang, Gunong Senyum and 
Kota Tongkat (Evans); Kwala Tahan (Seimund). 
(4) O. costata Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 61, p. 14. 
Herb about 12 to 14 in. tall. Stems stout, scurfy, branched 
almost woody. Leaves sub-equal elliptic-lanceolate, rather thin, 
membranous, acuminate, narrowed to base, glabrous or mealy 
pubescent on the 10 to 14 prominent nerves below, dark green 
above, pale beneath, 4 to 9 in. long, 1-25 to 4 in. wide; petioles 
1 to 1-5 in. long. Stipules linear-acuminate, glabrous. Cymes 
terminal solitary ; peduncles 2 in. long, scurfy puberulous as are 
cyme branches, 75 in. long in flower, 1-25 in. long in fruit. Flowers 
pedicelled ; pedicels as long as sub-globose pubescent ribbed calyx 
nearly -i in. long; teeth short, broad. Corolla funnel-shaped 
•2 in. long, lobes very short and blunt. Fruit glabrous, *4 in. 
across, -i in. long, sinus distinct usually; pedicels -2 in. long. Hab. 
Porests, Malacca, Bukit Sadanen (Derry). Pahang, Telom. Selan¬ 
gor, Menuang Gasing (Kloss); Semangkok Pass; Bukit Hitam 
(Kelsall). 
(5) O. Klossii Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soc. xli. 291. 
A stout herb over 12 in. tall, upper part velvety pubescent. 
Leaves thin ovate or oblong-lanceolate, long blunt acuminate, base 
narrowed glabrous except the 11 pairs of nerves pubescent beneath, 
under-surface pale, 375 to 6 in. long, 1-3 to 175 in. wide; petioles 
pubescent, *5 to 1*25 in. long. Stipules linear. Peduncles from 
upper axils 1 in. long pubescent. Cymes umbellate, 3 or 4 together, 
whole umbel dense, nodding. Bracts linear green, longer than the 
fruit, persistent. Flowers for the genus large not secund; pedicels 
short, thick, pubescent. Calyx globose, cupulate pubescent, lobes 
ovate. Corolla thick tubular, glabrous except at tip, lobes blunt, 
•4 in. long. Capsule obreniform, sinus wide and deep, pubescent. 
Hab. Selangor, Menuang Gasing (Kloss). 
Very distinct in its leaf-like, long, persistent bracts, in which it resembles 
O. jasciculata Don, but the flowers are cymose, not in scorpioid cymes, and 
much larger. 
