THE GESNERACF^E OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 89 



2. C. sujfiuticosa, Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc, p. 331. 



A large shrub 4 feet tall with hollow 4 angled pale stems 

 £ inch thick. Leaves opposite, the alternate one often very 

 much smaller lanceolate abruptly acuminate subfalcate 

 inaequilateral, edges entire, nerves conspicuous about 12 

 pairs, glabrous when adult, young leaves and petioles 

 red pubescent, 7 to 9 inches long 2^-3 inches wide, 

 petiole -|-f inch long. Peduncles short and thick axillary. 

 Bracts free ovate acute pubescent, 1 inch long \ inch 

 across. Flowers about 6 in a head nearly sessile. 

 Calyx deciduous sepals linear. Corolla glabrous over 

 an inch long, base cylindric dilated upwards, lobes round- 

 ed obtuse white with brown streaks in the throat, anthers 

 large elliptic. Style pubescent. Fruit f inch long 

 sausage- shaped. 



Johor, Tengarah (Fielding,) Pulau Tiuman (Ridley) 

 on rocks; Perak (Scortechini 142 5), Gopeng (King's 

 Coll. 4720), Kota Bahru (King's Coll. 569), Tupai, Larut 

 (Wray 2845.) 



Endemic. Generally growing on rocks put (King's 

 Coll. 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." 



S % Cfalcata, n,sp. 



Epiphytic about 2 feet tall, stem quadrangular fistulose, 

 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 

 inches long 1^ inch wide, petiole 1 inch long pubescent. 

 Cymes axillary shortly §-inch peduncled. Bracts broadly 

 ovate acute pubescent •£ inch long. Flowers few shortly 

 pedicelled. Fruit fusiform ^ inch long. 



Selangor, woods round the Kuala Lumpur Caves 

 (Ridley 8219); Perak (Wray 2845, Scortechini 1425). 

 Endemic rare. 



R. A. SOC, No. 43, 1905. 



