46 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Fruit 1J inch long green, 3 keeled to the sepals a 

 ridge representing each petal. 



Kelantan : Kwala Lebir (Dr. Gimlette.) 



T. vespertilio, n.sp. 



Stem short as in T. cristata, leases numerous elliptic 

 lanceolate long petioled, petiole sheathing 2 inches 6-8 

 inches long stout smooth lamina 12 inches long or less 



6 inches across base rounded, usually unequal, one side 

 further decurrent on the petiole than the other, tip 

 acuminate margin minutely wavy, bright polished 

 green above paler beneath, nerves conspicuous elevated 

 beneath. Scape over a foot long smooth. Involucral 

 bracts, 2 outer ones short lanceolate acuminate 1^ inch 

 long by -J inch purple tipped green, 2 inner ones sessile 

 ovate at right angles to the others brown purple 2 

 inches long 1-J inch wide, margins wavy all glabrous. 

 Flowers few 3-5. Filiform bracts 7 inches long about 

 12, base purple tips white Pedicels stout purple 1 inch 

 long. Perianth tube campanulate purple \ inch. Sepals 

 lanceolate acute purplish J inch. Petals broader 

 oblong ovate obtuse. Stamens shortly pedicelled fila- 

 ments short but distinct. Anther conic, retuse at base 

 lobes excurved. Stigma peltate with three lobes retuse, 

 plaits more deeply cut than in T. cristata. 



Perak : Kamuning (Machado) fl. H. B. S. November. 



This has flowered twice in the Botanic Gardens and 

 is a very distinct plant in the matter of the large bracts, 

 the two inner ones much larger than the outer ones and 

 spreading like the wings of a bat. 



SlLIACEiE. 



Chlorophytum longissimum, n. sp. 



Rhizome stout short 2-3 inches long. Leaves tufted, 

 lanceolate acuminate narrowed at the base subpetiolate 



7 inches long 1^-inch wide glabrous dark green. Raceme 

 deflexed at first 8 inches long terete, with distant alter- 



our. Straits Branch 



