NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 23 



Pulau Battam, an island south of Singapore (C. B. 

 Kloss), Sept. 1905.' 



This species is certainly closely allied to D. perdita 

 Ridl. but is much more hairy with shorter petioles, and 

 stem and more slender fruit. It is a very pretty little 

 plant but I have failed to cultivate it. 



SCROPHULARINEAE. 



Torenia mucronulata, Benth. Dec. Prodr. X. 410. 



A prostrate creeping herb a foot or more long, with 

 slender branched hairy stems. Leaves ovate crenate 

 narrowed at the base tip rounded sprinkled with hairs 

 above, the nerves on both surfaces more densely hairy 

 ■J inch wide and as long, petiole hairy ^ inch. Flowers 

 axillary solitary or in pairs nearly sessile. Calyx lobes 

 ovate reticulate hairy. Corolla small white with a pale 

 blue bar on each lower petal. 



On paths Singapore, Garden jungle, Bukit Timah 



(Ridley 6894), Galang; Dindings, Gunong Tungul 



(Ridley 9444) ; Pahang : Pahang river Ridley) ; Penang : 



Waterfall and Government Hill (Curtis 1837) ; Trin- 



" ganu, Bundi (Rostado). 



Native Names K'ra Nasi ; Gelumak Su&u, Rumput 

 Labang. 



The powdered leaves are applied in cases of snake 

 bite or rheumatism. 



Hooker in Flora Brit. Ind. seems to think this but 

 little distinct from T. polygonoides but in life at least it 

 is extremely different in its hairiness, and quite differ- 

 ently coloured flowers. It always dries black which 

 T. polygonoides does not. 



Torenia caelestis, n. sp. A slender creeping plant, the 

 stem and leaves pubescent hairy. Leaves ovate dentate 

 subacute base broad 1 inch long petiole ^inch long. 

 Flowers solitary terminal on slender peduncles 1^ inch 

 long. Calyx bilobed not winged hairy -| inch long, lobes 



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



