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lobes as long as the tube, linear-oblong, acuminate, cuspidate, 

 hairy on the back and tip, smooth within, red. Petals light 

 rose-colour, obovate, rounded, f inch long ; stamens 5, similar ; 

 filaments white at the base, jointed above, upper part curved, 

 yellow with a 2-forked process at the base, apex voilet ; antliers 

 .voilet, acuminate. Style bright red. 



On banks of streams, Padang. 



This has the habit of M. sanguinea, but the scale-hairs on 

 the calyx are like those of M. Malabathricum. 



49. Anerincleistus Robinsonii, Ridl. Journ. Straits 

 Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 57, p. 46 (1910). Common in the 

 woods along the Teku River at 4,600 feet altitude. Flowers 

 white. A shrub about 4 feet tall. Endemic. 



50. A. PULCHRA (Oritrephes pulchra, Ridley, pp. cit. 

 p. 309). This plant was mixed with the preceding in the 

 collections made by Robinson, and distributed under No. 

 5,509. The character of the genus Oritrephes was the baccate 

 and apparently indehiscent fruit, not opening by valves at the 

 apex. The fruit in the specimen first examined was apparently 

 nearly ripe. Other specimens, however, now show that the 

 fruit at a later stage does dehisce by valves as in a true 

 Anerincleistus, and that the plant is allied to A. grandiflora, 

 Ridl., of the Semangkok Pass. 



This section of the genus is, however, very distinct in 

 habit from the type as represented by A. hirsutus, Korth., and 

 its ally, and, if not generically separated, this group might be 

 distinguished as a section under the name of Oritrephes, the 

 description being amended. 



This species, which was not in flower at the time of my 

 visit, is abundant on the open woods of the Padang. It 

 should be pointed out that the stems and branches are 

 distinctly quadrangular. 



*5i. Anerincleistus fruticosus, Ridl. op. cit. p. 309. 

 Very common in the rocky streams of the Padang, varying in 

 size from a few inches tall, with one or two slender stems, to a 

 stout woody plant with a stem half an inch or an inch through 

 and over a foot tall, with red-brown bark bearing a cushion- 

 shaped mass of branches. It grows in cracks in the rocks, 

 and must frequently be covered by the rushing torrents. The 

 calyx is red, and the buds, tinted with pink, expand in the 

 early morning to a large, white, pointed star, half an inch 

 across. The stamens are all similar and fertile. 



This plant is certainly very unlike any other species 

 known to me, and in fruit at least resembles a Sonerila. 

 Endemic. 



52. OXYSPORA HIRTA, n. Sp. 



A tall shrub with few branches, base of stem bare, corky, 

 white, 5 to 6 feet tall, leafy only at the top. Leaves lanceolate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous, rather stiff, apex acute, base 

 peltate, cordate, 8 inches long, 3 inches wide, nerves 3, 

 conspicuous, nervules horizontal, numerous, above glabrescent, 



