30 Ox. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Perak; Larut, Gunong Bubu, 5000 ffc., Wray 3863! (in part). 



15. Sonerila elliptica, Stapf and King. An erect or ascending, 

 usually unbranched herb, 6-9 in. liigb, with a very fine, furfuraceous, dark- 

 rusty indumentum in the lower parts and on the young leaves, glabrous 

 or soon glabrescent higher up. Stem somewhat stout and succulent, 

 terete. Leaves of a pair similar in shape, slightly unequal or equal 

 in size, broadly elliptic, rarely ovate or almost orbicular, very obtuse, 

 usually symmetrical and rounded or subcordate at the base, minutely 

 and inconspicuously toothed, thick, fleshy, dark-green, often mottled 

 with white along the nerves above, waxy yellowish-green beneath, 

 1-25 in. by "75-2 in., distinctly 5-nerved from the very base, upper 

 nerves usually quite indistinct; petioles 1-2 in. long. Cymes many- 

 flowered, dense, axis at length up to *75 in. long ; peduncle slender, 

 1-25 in. long, pedicels at length up to *2 in. long. Calyx obconical, 

 trigonous, *12 in. long, glabrous, teeth distinct, broad, triangular. 

 Petals oblong, apiculate, "2-*23 long, glabrous, pinkish white. Anthers 

 oblong, obtuse, scarcely '1 in. long. Stigma punctiform. Fruit 

 trigonous, obconical, *15 in. long, smooth ; valves 12 in. broad. 



Perak ; Kinta, on limestone rocks, 500-800 ft., Kunstler 7037 ! 

 7225 ! Sungie Siput, Curtis 3156 ! 



16. Sonerila sctcculenta, Stapf and King. A succulent, erect 

 herb, quite glabrous with the exception of a very few gland-tipped hairs 

 on the calyx. Stem stout, very short to 3 in. long, very fleshy. Leaves 

 few, crowded, of a pair equal, symmetrical or almost so, long-petioled, 

 elliptic to ovate-elliptic, rather long and acutely acuminate, rounded 

 at the base or very slightly subcordate, entire, very thinly membranous 

 when dry, 6-7 in. by 3-4 in., 7-nerved from the base, with lax, subhori- 

 zontal transverse nerves, petioles succulent, 2-4 in. long. Cymes 

 terminal and axillary, 2-5 on a long common peduncle, subebracteate, 

 rather few-flowered, very short and dense ; common peduncle stout, 

 4-7 in. long; special peduncles 1 to over 3 in. long, bracts very minute, 

 subulate, the lower soon deciduous ; pedicels hardly any. Calyx oblong- 

 campanulate, up to '25 in. long ; teeth short, triangular. Petals oblong, 

 cuspidate-acuminate, *18 in. long. Anthers long-acuminate, incurved, 

 over '25 in. long. Style '35 in. long; stigma subcapitate. Fruit subtri- 

 gonous, obconical, smooth, up to "25 in. long ; valves over *15 in. broad. 



Perak ; Maxwell's Hill, 3000 ft., Scortechini 279 ! 



17. Sonerila repens, Stapf and King, A herb with a long creep- 

 ing rhizome and a very short succulent stem bearing 2-3 usually much 

 approximated pairs of leaves, with few, whitish, more or less adpressed, 

 papilliform hairs on both sides of the leaves and with very few, minute, 

 gland- tipped hairs on the stems, petioles and inflorescences, or glabrous 

 with the exception of the leaves. Leaves of a pair similar in shape, 



