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long by \ inch, upper portion of the branch puberulous. 

 Bracts linear-acuminate at the base of the cyme, ovate- 

 acuminate above. Branches in fruit stout, lowest one half an 

 inch long. Calyx cup-shaped, obscurely 5-lobed; fruit globose. 

 Selangor, Hulu Semangko {Ridley, 12,080) 

 This plant distinctly connects G. diversifolia with G. 

 lanceoLita, especially in the texture of the leaves and their 

 narrower form and shorter petiole.] 



125. [Gaertnera violascens, n. sp 



A shrublet with pale brown stems about ^ inch through, 

 the younger branches smooth, purplish. Leaves elongate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, acute at the tip, gradually narrowed 

 and decurrent on the petiole below, herbaceous, glabrous, with 

 8 pairs of thin ascending nerves, drying olive-green above, 

 paler beneath, 6 inches long, i inch across ; petiole slender, 

 I inch long. Stipules connate in a ring ; lobes free, rounded- 

 ovate, ^ inch long. Peduncle terminal, 2-3 inches long, 

 glabrous, bearing 3 or 4 branches, the lower ones spreading, f 

 inch long, upper ones on a longer peduncle. Bracts at the 

 basal pair linear, obtuse, from a broad lanceolate base, half 

 an inch long, green. Cymes 2 or 3 on the end of each branch, 

 of few flowers, sessile. Bracteoles ovate. Calyx campanulate, 

 short, with slight traces of teeth. Corolla dirty violet ; tube, 

 cylindric, half an inch long ; lobes ovate, subacute, ^ inch long, 

 spreading or reflexed ; tube within glabrous, except in the 

 mouth at the point of attachment of the stamens, which is 

 covered with dense white short hair. Stamens 5 ; filaments 

 very short ; anthers linear, obtuse. Style very slender, capil- 

 larv. Ovary short, oblong, truncate. Fruit ellipsoid, sessile, 

 half an inch long, of 2 pyrenes, each flat with a strong keel on 

 the outer face. 



By Wray's Camp, Tahan, at 3,300 feet altitude. 



A very distinct plant, with unusually coloured flowers; all 

 other species in the genus which I know have white flowers.] 



LENTIBULARIACE^. 



*i26. Utricularia nigricaulis, Ridl. op. cit. p. 317. 



This was flrst collected bv Mr. Robinson, and described in 

 the ' Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany,' vol. xxxviii. p. 

 317. I add the following notes about the plant : — 



The leaves are narrow and linear, obtuse. The calyx has 

 the upper lobe very obtuse, rounded at the tip and violet in 

 colour, the lower lobe oblong and greenish, much smaller. 

 Upper petals oblong-obtuse, whitish, violet at the base. Lip 

 3-lobed ; lobes nearly equal, middle one a little smaller than the 

 other two, violet with a darker spot at the base. The 

 spur porrect, gibbous at the base, a little longer than the 

 lip, violet. The stems are not always deep-coloured, some- 

 times beini^ green. 



This little plant was very abundant in damp spots on the 

 peaty banks of the streams on the Padang and up the Teku 



