34 NEW MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Penang n rocks at 1500 to 2000 feet altitude (King's 

 collector 2270.) 



This plant should be sought again. It resembles the 

 common B. coelestis in the form of its flowers, but is 

 saprophytic. The very broad oblong wings of the per- 

 ianth tube are very striking. 



Since publishing the paper on Ihirmanniacece in 

 Journal 22, p. 332, I have been able to add to this 

 group of plants : — B. Championii, Thwaites. A small 

 ivory white plant like B. tuber osa, Becc, but more com- 

 pact, with a short thick root stock covered with scales, 

 from the Laba river in Selangor, and two additional 

 species of Thismia ; Th. grandiflora, Ridl., with rather 

 large pink flowers collected by Lieut. Kelsall on the 

 Sembrong river in Johor ; and Th. ckri/sops, Ridl., 

 a very pretty kind from Mount Ophir with pink 

 and chocolate flowers with a yellow ring round the 

 mouth of the tube; and Bagnisia crocea of Beccari, a very 

 oddly shaped little brown species met with in the Perak 

 Hills. 



Dioscoreace^:. 

 Dioscorea temrifolia, n. sp. Stems slender leaves mostly opposite 

 thin glabrous elliptic cuspidate, base rounded 5 nerved 2 

 to 3 inches long an inch wide, petiole slender an inch 

 long. Male panicle long and slender a foot or more, 

 spikes slender one to three inches long, 3 or more in a 

 whorl, rachis angled minutely pubescent. Flowers very 

 small distant pubescent. Bracts shorter ovate. Sepals 

 oblong ovate. Petals nearly as long oblong obtuse. 

 Stamens 6, filaments fairly long. 



Singapore on Bukit Timah (Ridley 4596.) 



This wild yam is remarkable for its very thin leaves 

 and slender stems. I have only met with a male plant 

 but it seems very distinct from all other described species. 



LILIACE^:. 



Ophiopogon Malaijanus, n. sp. Stem erect stout 4 inches or more 

 tall covered with the scarious sheaths of the fallen leaves 

 and emitting long woody roots. Leaves linear acumi- 



Jour. Straits Branch 



