2G G-. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1» 



long", rose-coloured. Anthers acute, '12 in- long. Style filiform ; stigma 

 capitate. Fruit trigonous, truncate-obovate, 2 in. long, smooth ; valves 

 '12 in. broad. 



Perak; Gunong Panti, 600-S00 ft., Kunstler 219! Ridley 4184! 

 Gunong Inas, 3500 ft., Wray 4066 ! 4067 ! 



Certain small specimens, collected by Scortechini in Perak (272), represent only 

 a dwarf state of &. flaccida ; their larger leaves measure 1-1*5 in. by '6-8 in. 



7. Sonertla andamanensis, Stapf and King. An erect or ascend- 

 ing, branched or unbranched herb, 3-6 in. high, more or less hirsute, 

 particularly on the stem and petioles, with flexuous, finely pointed hairs. 

 Stem reddish-brown when dry, quadrangular. Leaves rather approxi- 

 mate, those of a pair similar in shape and size, or more or less unequal, 

 ovate to ovate-oblong, acute or subaeuminate, rounded or subcordate 

 and often slightly asymmetrical at the base, membranous, green or 

 purple above, purplish glaucous below, length 15 to 3 3 in., breadth 

 1 to 17 in., 5-8-nerved from below the middle, the lower nerves more 

 or less opposite, the uppermost 1 or 2 usually alternate, transverse veins 

 oblique, fine or obscure ; peduncle "5-1*5 in. long. Cymes few- to many- 

 no wered, much contracted, peduncles solitary and terminal, or 2-4 from 

 the top and the uppermost leaf-axils, 1-2 in. long ; pedicels slender, up 

 to *1 in. long, like the flowers with scanty and sometimes minutely gland- 

 tipped hairs. Calyx very slender, obconical, up to *2 in. long ; teeth 

 short, broad, triangular. Petals elliptic, acuminate, *25 in. long, rose- 

 coloured. Anthers ovate-lanceolnte, subacute, *09-*12 in. long. Style 

 filiform, '2-'25 in. long ; stigma capitate. Fruit oblong with a cuneato 

 base, *22-27 in. long, smooth ; valves scarcely *1 in. broad. 



Andamans ; Mount Harriet near Port Blair, on rocks, King's 

 Collector 48 ! 



8. Sonertla populipolta, Stapf and King. An erect or ascending, 

 simple or sparingly branched herb, 6-9 in. high, more or less covered 

 with minute hairs and with a few soft, adpressed, whitish, small bristles 

 on the surface and the margins of the ultimately often glabrescent 

 leaves, with the hairs of the inflorescence often minutely gland-tipped. 

 Stem finely rusty-tomentose, subterete below, quadrangular above. 

 Leaves of a pair similar in shape and equal or somewhat unequal in size, 

 ovate, acute or acuminate, usually minutely cordate at the base, with 

 the lobes often more or less unequal and close, subentire or toothed in 

 the upper part, thinly membranous, light-green, 1-5-3 in. by 1 2-1 75 

 in., finely 7-nerved from near the base, upper pair '2-*3 in. from the 

 base; petioles very slender, 1-2 in. long, finely tomentose. Cymes few- 

 to 12-flowered, much contracted and almost umbelliform, terminal ; 

 peduncle slender, 5-1-2 in. long; pedicels slender, -15-22 in. long. 



