XCIII. LOGANIACE^E. 
Mitreola.] 
413 
2-horned or truncate, dehiscing from above downwards. Seeds 
numerous, small. Species 4, 2 American, 2 Asiatic. 
(1) M. oldenlandioides Wall. Cat. 4350; Hook. Ic. PI. 827; 
King, l.e. 598. 
Annual 6 to 18 in. tall. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
narrowed at both ends, 1 to 2 in. long, -5 to 1 in. wide; petioles 
■25 in. long. Cymes peduncles slender, 1 in. long; branches -5 in. 
long or more, dichotomous. Flowers sub-sessile, under -i in. long. 
Capsule -i in. or more long, 2-horned. Hab. Lankawi, Kwah 
(Curtis). Distrib. Indo-Malaya, Australia. 
The flowers are usually described as white, Curtis records them as blue. 
2 . MITRASACME, Labill. 
Small herbs. Leaves opposite; stipules forming a sheath. 
Flowers solitary in terminal cymes or umbels. Calyx 4-fid. Corolla 
tubular, lobes 4. Stamens 4, included; filaments adnate to tube; 
anthers ovate cordate. Ovary 2-celled; styles 2, connate, separat¬ 
ing from the base upwards; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Capsule 
sub-globose, truncate or 2-horned. Seeds numerous, minute. 
Leaves in a rosette at base . . . . . (i) M. nudicaulis 
Leaves in distinct pairs; cymes lax, terminal . . (2) M, polymorpha 
Leaves in pairs; flowers solitary axillary . . (3) M. alsinoides 
(1) M. nudicaulis Reinwdt. Bl. Bijdr. 849; Hook. fil. F.B.I. 
iv. 80. 
Whole plant 3 to 5 in. tall, slender. Leaves at base of stem 
few, sub-sessile elliptic, hairy, *3 in. long; stem slender with a 
terminal, lax cyme of few white flowers; pedicels -5 to 1-5 in. long, 
glabrous. Calyx-lobes acute. Corolla -13 in. long. Capsule -i in. 
long. Hab. Rare. In lalang grass fields. Malacca, Bukit Sialang, 
near Sempang Ampat (Rurkill). Distrib. India, China, Malaya. 
(2) M. polymorpha By. Prodr. 452; King, l.c. 599. M. malac- 
censis Wight, Ic. 1601. 
Whole plant 3 to 9 in. tall, base (about one-third) leafy. Leaves 
in pairs, sessile, oblong, blunt, hairy, 2 to 3 in. long and '05 in. 
wide. Cymes lax, terminal and on the ends of a few branches; 
pedicels slender, -25 in. long. Flowers -25 in. long, nodding, 
white and buff. Calyx-lobes triangular acute. Corolla bell-shaped, 
hairy in throat. Capsule globular, -i in. across. Hab. Grassy 
spots. Malacca (Griffith); Sungei Baru Ulu; Bukit Sabukor 
(Goodenough). Pahang, Pekan (Ridley). Distrib. Indo-Malaya, 
China and Australia. 
(3) M. alsinoides Br. Prodr, 453; Hook. fil. F.B.I. iv. 80. 
Branched annual about 6 in. tall or less, glabrous. Leaves 
•15 to -25 in. long, sessile, oblong. Pedicels slender, solitary or 
2 to 3 together in upper axils, -2 in. long. Calyx acutely lobed. 
Corolla white, -r in. long or more. Capsule -i in. long; style 
persistent. Hab. Rice-fields, Kelantan at Kota Bharu (Ridley). 
