NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 21 



gin crenulate 2-J inch long 1^ inch wide, scabrid hairy 

 on both surfaces, petiole £ inch long hairy. Flowers in 

 axillary umbels, peduncle f inch long hairy. Bracts 

 lanceolate acute white hairy. Flowers 5 in an umbel, 

 pedicels J inch long white hairy. Calyx ^ inch long 

 campanulate pubescent, lobes 5 acute red. Corolla ^ 

 inch long tubular lobes rounded, pubescent firm texture, 

 white or yellow. Stamens 4 didynamous. Style shorter 

 than the two longer stamens stout, stigma broad sub- 

 quadrate. Ovary small quadrate truncate surrounded 

 by a sinuate disc. 



Sarawak : Kuching (Hewitt). 



Cyrtandra Gimhttii, n. sp. 



Stem woody brown, 4 inches tall pubescent, especially 

 the young parts. Leaves obovate subacute narrowed 

 gradually to the base serrate, bright green reticulate 

 bullate, main nerves 6 pairs, shining above, with appress- 

 ed scattered hairs, nerves beneath thickly hairy 6 inches 

 long four inches wide, petiole beneath purple. Flowers 

 in small tufts from the lower leaves or from axils of 

 fallen leaves, 4 or 5 together sessile. Bracts small 

 ovate pale whitish yellow hairy. Calyx short tubular 

 deeply bilobed with two acute points hairy. Corolla 

 tube ^ inch long thick curved dilated upwards hairy, limb 

 •J inch across upper lobes subtriangular obtuse lower 

 three oblong obtuse, glabrous in front, creamy white, 

 lower lip yellower, with deep purple blotching ending 

 in two purple bars on the lower lip. Stamens 2, filaments 

 stout sinuous purple, anthers orange elliptic pressed 

 together. Pollen floury white. Stigma transversely 

 oblong large green. Staminodes 2 very short sinuous 

 filaments, from near the base of the tube. 



Kelantan : Kwala Lebir (Dr. Gimlette). 



This little plant was sent alive by Dr. Gimlette from 

 Kelantan and flowered in the Botanic Gardens in Dec- 

 ember 1906. The stamens project first after the flower 



R. A. Soc, No. 49, 1907. 



