NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 13 



N. lancifolia, Hook. fit. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 158. 



The whole plant about 6 inches tall. Stem woody, 

 internodes short ; stipules of long erect bristly brown 

 hairs. Leaves crowded towards the tip broadly ob- 

 lanceolate obtuse, base narrowed acuminate, edges 

 stringly bidenticulate dark above rather coriaceous, 

 pale beneath 4 inches long by 1 inch broad or less. 

 Flowers solitary axillary on peduncles •£ inch long, 

 pedicels shorter. Sepals ovate lanceolate, not or little 

 toothed ribbed, longer than the capsule. Petals very 

 small ovate. Capsule subglobose shorter than the 

 sepals. 



Borneo : Sarawak on Matang (Hullett, Eidley). 



Miquel, and Boerlage and Koorders (Ic. Bogor Ixxvi) 

 identify Hooker's plant collected by Lobb in North 

 Borneo, with Korthals' plant iT. serrata which is des- 

 cribed as four feet tall and is a native of Sumatra. I 

 never saw any species of Neckia nearly as big as this. 

 The plant figured in the Icones Bogorienses as J\ T . serrata 

 seems to be different again. It can hardly be Hooker's 

 plants, for in his description the leaves are said to be 

 bidenticulate whereas in the plant figured they are 

 almost quite entire, remarkably so for one of the genus. 

 Hooker's plant is probably the one described above, but 

 his description is too short for so critical a genus. It 

 can hardly be either Korthals' plant or Boerlage's. 



N. Klossii, r>, sp. 



Stem 4 or 5 inches tall woody leaves crowded up- 

 wards. Stipules ferrugineous. Leaves oblanceolate, sub- 

 acute, narrowed towards the base glabrous dark green 

 above light green beneath edges bidenticulate especially 

 towards the tip 2 J inches long § inch wide. Scapes very 

 slender several together or solitary -J inch long. Bract 

 linear very narrow. Sepals lanceolate acuminate very 

 narrow, acute, with a few rather large irregular teeth on 

 the edge green. Petals oblong obtuse much broader 

 and a little shorter white. Staminodes very numerous 



R. A. Sue, No. 49, 1907. 



