112 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Founder of our Society with tlie beautiful climber, Hosea 

 Lobbiana, the ladder to the moon, (Tanga Bulan) of the 

 Malays. This charming plant abundant in the swamps near 

 Kuching, has been more or less known for a loug time. 

 Thomas Lobb while collecting plants for cultivation for 

 Yeitch found it and dried a spray of it which is now at Kew, 

 but Lobb does not seem to have troubled to put localities on 

 the tickets of his dried specimens, and when his collections 

 were received at Kew, many were wrongly localised, and this 

 plant was supposed to have come from Penang, and was des- 

 cribed as thence by Clarke in the Flora of British India as 

 Clerodendron Lobbiana, (the peculiar fruit however prevents 

 it from being a Clerodendron). 



Miss North saw it at Kuching and made a drawing of 

 it, which however was not recognized as LobVs plant. Bishop 

 Hose brought plants of it into his garden at Kuching, and 

 some years ago gave one to the Botanic Gardens in Singapore 

 where it has been cultivated. It seems of slow growth and 

 not very easy to propagate, so that it has not been found 

 possible as yet to distribute it to other gardens. It is a most 

 attractive plant with its red upper leaves and salmon-orange 

 flowers. A contrast to it is the dwarf Clerodendron pumi- 

 ium from the road banks of Matang mountain in Sarawak, 

 perhaps the smallest of clerodendrons, though with a fairly 

 large tuft of white and pink flowers. 



Sterculiaceae. 



Heritiera data, n. sp. 



A gigantic tree 100 feet tall 2 feet through with 

 strong buttresses, bark grey flaky. Leaves coriaceous 

 elliptic obtuse with a round or truncate base 4 inches 

 long 2J inches wide smooth shining above, coppery scaly 

 beneath, nerves 5 pairs elevated beneath, inconspicuous 

 beneath, petiole J-J inch long. Panicles axillary 

 on the branches in the axils of fallen leaves about five 

 inches long, lax many flowered about 4 inches long, all 



Jour. Straits Branch, 



