124 NEW OK EARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



It was obtained by Dr. Winkler while making a short 

 exeursion to the well known caves. 



ACANTHACEAE. 



Polytrema cuprea, n. sp. 



A slender creeping herb terrestrial. Leaves equal 

 opposite ovate rotundate base rounded scabrid above, sub- 

 pubescent beneath, margins pubescent, J-l inch long and 

 about as wide, petiole £ inch long, slender, dark coppery 

 brown above paler beneath, nerves sunk on the upper sur- 

 face. Flowers three or four on a short terminal cyme. 

 Sepals linear acuminate very narrow spreading in fruit, 

 scabrid pubeseent brown, inside pinkish. Corolla \ inch 

 long pale rose, lobes oblong truncate, lower lobe with a 

 bright yellow central patch. Stamens 2, filaments gla- 

 brous, anther cells oblong acute at both ends parallel. 

 Pistil pubescent. Stigma capitate. Capsule \ inch 

 long clubbed -i seeded. Seed half orbicular punctate. 



Perak : at Telor Pinang near Ipoh. Oct, 1898 (Ridley 

 9769). 



This pretty little creeper has been in cultivation in 

 the Botanic Gardens for six years and living plants have 

 been sent to Kew. It seems near P. isophyllunij Clarke, 

 but that is a tall erect plant with very different and 

 larger leaves, and axillary flowers. Like so many plants 

 of this kind it constantly produces cleistogamous flowers 

 so that the corolla is seldom seen* 



Verbenaceae. 

 Rosea, n. gen. 



A woody climbing shrub, with opposite elliptic ovate 

 leaves, petioled ; the terminal leaves on the shoot partly 

 or entirely red. Cymes long pedunclcd, axillary from the 

 upper leaf axils, spreading, branches dichotomous. 

 Calyx campanulate spathaceous bilobed pubescent, lobes 



Jour, Straits Branch. 



