20 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Bl. densijiora, Dec. 



I take a stout plant like BL Balsamifera but not aro- 

 matic which grows on the road up the Taiping hills to 

 be this plant. It is abundant on the road side at 

 4000 feet alt. 



Vernonia eleagnifolia. 



Is also omitted from the Flora. It is a sarmentose 

 shrub with lavender flowers. I met wibh it in Pahang 

 at Pekan on the riverbank near Ayer Hitam in flower 

 in June (Ridley 1199). Plants brought to the Botanic 

 Gardens grow into bushes but have never flowered since. 

 I have it also from Bangtaphan in Siam collected by 

 Dr. Keith. 



CyRTANDRACBvE. 



Chirita rupestris, Ridl. 



Since publishing the account of this plant in the 

 Journal, I have obtained and raised plants of this spe- 

 cies from a seedling which came up in a pot in Penang 

 Gardens, and am able to add fuller details to my account 

 of it, which was based on somewhat weak plants collect- 

 ed by Curtis in the Lankawi islands in 1889. 



The plants now raised are more robust, the stems 

 stouter, more or less purplish and sometimes much 

 branched. The leaves are light green as are the urn- 

 shaped involucres of two bracts. The flowers described 

 as dark blue in Curtis field-note are light violet blue 

 with a white tube and yellow throat, f inch long, the 

 limb half an inch across, the corolla lobes are rounded 

 and glabrous in front, but the tube margins of the lobes, 

 and mouth of the tube are covered with white hairs. The 

 two stamens have short thick sinuous filaments, and 

 elliptic anthers. The ovary is cylindric and hairy the 

 style not much longer. The stigma is flat and linear. 



Cyrtandromaea minor, n. sp. 



Whole plant 20 inches tall, stem angled pubescent. 

 Leaves opposite ovate lanceolate obtuse, base acute mar- 



Jour. Straits Branch 



