44 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Camptandra ovata, n. sp. 



Stems solitary 3-6 inches long the base covered 

 with oblong lanceolate sheaths 1-2 inches long cuspi- 

 date. Leaves 2-3 ovate peltate acuminate inaequilater- 

 al, base rounded, 1^-3 \ inches long f-2 inches wide, 

 petiole slender 1-1£ inch long, sheath less than half 

 the length. Peduncle ^-1 inch long subterminal erect. 

 Bract £-1 inch long urnshaped with a recurved tip 

 orbicular when spread out and an inch across. Flowers 

 2-3, nearly sessile. Calyx tubular dilated upwards 

 shortly 3 lobed lobes blunt \ inch long. Corolla tube 

 slightly longer than the bract, lobes pale blue or white 

 \ inch long blunt. Capsule oblong f inch long grey 

 thin walled punctate and blotched brown, seeds several 

 fusiform obtuse dark grey with a thin white fimbriate 

 aril. 



Selangor : Hulu Semangkok at about 4000 feet eleva- 

 tion, first collected by Mr. Burn Murdoch in February 

 and later by myself in August 1904. 



This is a much smaller plant than C. latifolia which 

 in general form it resembles. 



H. licmeres, n. sp. 



Stem apparently tall. Leaves oblong lanceolate cus- 

 pidate narrowed to the base 20 inches long 2£ inches 

 wide, glabrous, ligule oblong rounded on the top J inch 

 long. 



Bracts papery linear acute, tips pubescent, 1| inch 

 long J inch wide. Inner bracts spathaceous narrow, 

 tip pubescent. Calyx, tube narrow-spathaceous 2 

 inches long, tips of lobes silky hairy. Corolla, tube 

 little longer, lobes linear obtuse red, about an inch long. 

 Lip much shorter about \ inch long, lateral lobes erect 

 convolute, midlobe with a narrow claw ending in a 

 broader triangular bi-lobed or hastate thicker limb. 

 Anther not distinctly crested. . 



Sarawak ; Kuching (Hewitt). 



Jour. Straits Braneh 



