68 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
NEW MALAYAN PLANTS. 
By H. N. Rivtey, M.A., F.L.S. 
Amone the more interesting discoveries made recently in the 
Malay aia, the fo llowing are the most noteworthy novelties. 
Perhaps ane most striking is the addition of the genus Tupistra t 
the flora of the Malay region; the group of Liliacee to which it 
aa the Aspidistree—is characteristic rather of the Hima- 
layan and ee regions, and hitherto has not been recorded 
south of Tenasserim. 
ocarpus cyaneus, sp.n. Acaulis, ee pluribus jd 
crenatis seepeepeniater ey petiolis semiteretibus crassis, 4- 
longis, 3 pollices ant Scapi plures 2-fiori fei, 3 pollices ie 
Bractez een uste. Flores magni speciosi, pedicellis polli- 
caribus. Ca Re laciniis angustis linearibus, 4 pollicis longis, 
ad basin Liberte. Coral tubus curvus a. dilatatus, lobis rotun- 
datis latis, labio inferiore quam superius majore. Flos 14 pollicis 
longus, } pollicis ls atro-ceruleus, fauce pallidiore. Stamina 2, 
filamentis in me atatis albis, antheris parvis oblongis flavis. 
Stylus aaens piigsiats —_ canaliculato. Capsula teres subulata 
longe rostrata pubescen 
— territory at Alas sum. Collected by Mr. C. Curtis 
The number of Didymocarpi in the Siamese-Malayan - region 
seems satis: every district supplying one or more new kinds; but 
few have been met with here more beautiful than a charming 
little plant. Its deep blue flowers are produced in abundance 
almost all the year round, and it is one of the sighed de cultivate ; 
so that it ought to be a popular plant of cultivation. Its affinity is 
with D. lacunosa Hook. fil. 
Dipymocarpus corcHorirotia Wall. The genus Didymocarpus, a8 
defined in Clarke’s Mono ee S nea Candolle, Mon. Phan. v.) a 
the Flora of British India, iv. 845, comprises a most heterogeneous 
collection of plants, which it would probably be more satisfactory 
gt 
D. corchorifolia Wall., which is cla “ied at Mr. Clarke in the 
section Didymanthus, but of which he says: « Habitu proprio cum 
character ibus sectionis male congruens, nulli specie forsan arcte 
ome l.c. p. 85). Now ~ section i tages includes such 
One 
n, forms a woody shrub 
much branched, and from four to six feet tall, with axillary panicles 
bearing numerous flowers with cup-shaped bracts at the bases of 
the peduncles and pedicels. Its most peculiar point, however: 
which has be Ta is/sha overlooked in all published descriptions, 18 
