12 NEW^OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



dark green above glaucescent or pale beneath \\ to 

 7 inches long, nerves very numerous inconspicuous. 

 Flowers axillary on long slender peduncles 1 inch long. 

 Bract linear minute, pedicel \ inch long. Sepals 5 lan- 

 ceolate acute toothed. Petals 5 rose pink ovate obtuse. 

 Stamens monadelphous 10. Pistil conic, style straight 

 longer than the stamens, capitate. Capsule ovoid acute 

 with the style persistent longer than the sepals, seed 

 obovoid punctate dark brown. 



Johor : Gunong Janeng (Lake and Kelsall), Telepak 

 (C. B. Kloss), Gunong Panti (Ridley 4164) ; Pahang : 

 Tahan river (Ridley 2264), Lingga, edge of a stream at 

 200-300 feet (Hullett). 



There are two forms of this, one small to 1 foot 

 tall, the leaves broadly lanceolate 2-J inches long by ^ 

 inch wide and more strongly toothed. This is the form 

 common in Johor and Lingga. The Pahang plant has 

 leaves 6 inches long and j inch wide, and might be 

 made a variety under the name of angustifolia. 



N. distans, n. sp. 



Stem slender woody over a foot tall, internodes \ 

 inch long. Leaves alternate stipules of dark brown 

 branched hairs, persistent shorter than in the preceding. 

 Leaves lanceolate acuminate narrowed gradually at the 

 base, margins bidenticulate, 5 inches long f inch wide, 

 scattered over the stem and not persistent only at the 

 top. Flowers solitary axillary, peduncle very short less 

 than J inch. Bract lanceolate acute minute, pedicel •£ 

 an inch long or very much less. Sepals broadly lanceo- 

 late acute striate £ inch long with a few teeth towards 

 the tip. Petals shorter ovate, lanceolate blunt pink. 

 Stamens shorter than in the preceding. Style shorter 

 than the petals. Capsule ovoid shorter than the sepals. 



British North Borneo : Bongaya in Labuk Bay 

 (Ridley 9054). 



Neckia scrrata,Boer]a,ge, Ic. Bogor XXVI. may possi- 

 bly be this species. 



Jour. Straits Bran«h 



