126 NEW OK RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Bishop Hose in bis garden at Kuching, and I have much 

 pleasure in associating his name with the genus. Plants 

 have been cultivated also in the Botanic Gardens in 

 Singapore. 



The peculiarity of the genus lies in its remarkable 

 fruit, which is not baccate as in most species of the 

 genus but one-seeded. 



Clerodendron pumilum, n. sp. 



A dwarf plant, suffruticose, stem 2 inches tall, with 

 whitish longitudinally ribbed bark, pubescent above. 

 Leaves few 2 or 3, broadly ovate acute, base rounded 

 broad, margin undulate distantly denticulate 4 to 6 

 inches long, 2 to 3 inches wide covered with pale uni- 

 cellular hairs on both sides, petiole \ inch long. Pe- 

 duncle \ inch long. Cymes in a pair about 2 inches long 

 and as much across, many flowered, pedicels and peduncle 

 densely pubescent. Sepals 5 lanceolate acute \ inch long 

 green tipped with red and covered with red hairs. 

 Corolla f inch long, tube cylindric dilated at the base 

 curved above pinkish, pubescent, upper part crimson 

 lobes 5-6 obovate rounded creamy white, hairy on the 

 back. Stamens glabrous crimson over -| inch longer than 

 the corolla tube, anther linear deeply bifid black. Style 

 filiform crimson glabrous long. Stigmas subulate green. 

 Overy subglobose obscurely 4 lobed. 



Sarawak: Mt. Matang, above the bungalow on clay 

 .banks by the road (Hullett, Ridley 12300). 



A pretty little dwarf species of Clerodendron with a 

 large tuft of pink and white flowers. 



Orchideae. 



Oberonia filaris, n. sp. 



Caulescent, stems flexuous 3-4 inches tall, leaves 7 to 

 12 ensiform acuminate 1 inch long £ inch wide. Spike 

 very slender 4-8 inches long, floriferous to the base. 

 Flowers very minute yellow in approximate half whorls. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



