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Maingay (K.D.) 1232. Perak : Bujong Malacca, Ridley 9703 ; Larut 

 Hills, Bidley and Fox, Scortechini 367, 1231 ; Wray 2196 ; Kinr/s 

 Collector 2052, 5131, 3891.— Distrib. Sumatra. 



2. Cyrtandra suffruticosa, Eidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 

 330 (1893). A large shrub, 4 ft. tall, with hollow 4-angled pale stems 

 •25 in. thick. Leaves opposite, one of each pair often very much 

 smaller alternately on one side or the other ; lanceolate, abruptly 

 acuminate, subfalcate, inaequilateral ; edges entire ; nerves conspicuous, 

 about 12 pairs ; glabrous when adult, young leaves and petioles red- 

 pubescent ; 7 to 9 in. long, 2*5 to 3 in. wide ; petiole -5 to "75 in. long. 

 Peduncles short and thick, axillary ; bracts free, ovate acute, pubescent, 

 1 in. long, -5 in. across ; flowers about 6 in a head, nearly sessile. Calyx 

 deciduous; sepals linear. Corolla glabrous, over 1 in. long; base cylin- 

 dric, dilated upwards ; lobes rounded, obtuse, white with brown streaks 

 in the throat. Anthers large, elliptic. Style pubescent. Berry -75 in. 

 long, sausage-shaped. Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 89. 



Perak: Scortechiyii 142; Gopeng, Kings Collector 4720; Kota 

 Bahru, King's Collector 569; Tupai, Lariit, Wray 2845. Johore: 

 Tengarah, Fielding ; Pulau Tinman, Bidley. On rocks. 



Eidley says it is nearly allied to a Bornean species, C. oblongifolia, Clarke, but 

 much larger in all parts. It is generally found growing on rocks or (King's Collector 

 4720) from the top of a high tree. Wray describes the flowers as " white marked in 

 the throat with dark claret: bracts green without, claret within; fruit light green, 

 finely spotted, paler." 



3. Cyrtandra falcata, Eidley in Journ. Str. Br. E. As. Soc. No. 43, 

 89 (1905). Epiphytic shrub, about 2 ft. tall ; stem quadrangular, fistu- 

 lose, pale. Leaves lanceolate acuminate, falcate ; alternate, often with 

 small opposite ones ; glabrous when adult ; narrowed at the base into 

 the petiole; nerves about 10 pairs ; 7 or 8 in. long, 1-5 in. wide ; petiole 

 1 in. long, pubescent. Cymes axillary, -125 in. shortly peduncled; 

 bracts broadly ovate, acute, pubescent, -5 in. long ; flowers few, shortly 

 pedicelled. Fruit fusiform, -5 in. long. 



Perak : Wray 2845 ; Scortechini 142. Selangor : woods round the 

 Kuala Lumpur Caves, Bidley 8219. 



Allied to C. oblongifolia, Hook, f., and C. suffruticosa, Eidley, but the leaves are 

 much narrower than those of the latter, and thinner and with more conspicuous nerves 

 than those of the former. 



4. Cyrtandra pilosa, Blume Bijdr. 770 (1826). Shrub with stout 

 4-angled hollow stems as much as "5 in. through, 3 ft. tall, upper parts 

 pubescent. Leaves opposite, obovate, narrowed into a winged petiole ; 

 margins serrate; above more or less covered with pale hairs from a 



