24 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



lanceolate subacute, ribbed in fruit. Corolla f inch long, 

 Lobes oblong rounded, light blue. 



Johore : Kota Tinggi and along the road to Gunong 

 Pantai (Ridley 4169). 



This plant was identified in the Materials for the 

 Flora of the Malay Peninsula as the very different T. 

 flenthamiana, a Cochin Chinese plant commonly culti- 

 vated under the name of T. Bailloni. This plant has 

 large yellow flowers with a brown centre, while T. 

 caelestis has much smaller flowers of a light blue. 



Torenia atro2iurpurea, n. sp. 



Stems creeping and rooting slender 2 feet long or 

 more, branched internodes 1 to 4 inches long. Leaves 

 ovate to deltoid glabrous minutely pustular above, 

 apex acute base broad or slightly cuneate margin 

 crenate serrate, 1-2 inches long ^-1 inch wide, petiole 

 slender ^ inch long. Flowers solitary in the upper 

 axils on slender 1 inch peduncles. Bracts very small 

 linear. Calyx f inch long narrow tubular, lobes linear 

 acute free for f of the length of calyx. Corolla deep 

 violet purple an inch long tube narrow tubiform mouth 

 ■J inch across lobes rounded. Capsule oblong \ inch long 

 abtuse shorter than the calyx. Seeds subquadrate. 



Perak : Maxwell's Hill (Ridley 5507), Bujong Malacca 

 Cat the first Waterfall Ridley 9756) without locality 

 (Scortechini 2122); Selangor : 15th mile, Pahang track 

 (Ridley 8533). On claybanks often growing in great 

 clumps. 



This charming plant has somehow been mistaken in 

 the Flora of British India for T. asiatica, a native of 

 Siam commonly cultivated in the East and occasionally 

 appearing is an escape from cultivation. It differs from 

 this species in being a creeping perennial, instead of an 

 erect annual, in its narrow linear calyx lobes and long 

 narrow-tubed deep purple corolla. It is a very pretty 



Jour. Straits Branch 



