New or Rare Malayan Plants. 



Seties III. 

 By H. N. Ridley. 



This is another series of novelties and notes on little 

 known plants from the East. The recently published numbers 

 of the Materials for the Flora of the Malay Peninsula by Dr. 

 King contains the Scrophularinece, and I find in the genus 

 Torenia one common species altogether omitted and two very 

 distinct plants wrongly identified with two common Siamese 

 plants cultivated here only. I have therefore given descriptions 

 of these three plants. Some new plants obtained in Sarawak 

 by Mr. Hewitt, some from Southern Siam by Mr. Down, and 

 other little known or new plants from elsewhere are described. 



Neckia. 



The small genus Neckia comprises a few species of small 

 half shrubby plants belonging to the section Sauvagesiacea, of 

 Violacece. They are usually under a foot tall, often only a few 

 inches high, with lanceolate toothed leaves, and small rose or 

 "white flowers. The slender woody stem seldom or never 

 branches and is more or less covered with bristly hairs. The 

 fruit is a small capsule containing a large number of very 

 small reticulate seeds. 



The Neckias are to be found on rocks, usually sandstone 

 or granitic, in the forests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and 

 Borneo. 



N. Malayana, n. sp. 



Whole plant 3-12 inches tall. Stem naked below 

 (from the falling off of the leaves), woody slender, above 

 covered densely with the bristle-like stipules red brown 

 \ inch long. Leaves alternate lanceolate acuminate 

 at both ends, margins biserrate but obscurely, glabrous 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Sgc, No. 49, 1907. 



