NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 15 



remote, singly or in twos or threes, on hairy pedicels TTT 

 inch long, the bracts small ovate and hairy. Sepals 2 

 lanceolate hairy very small. Outer petals linear oblong 

 obtuse pubescent. Inner petals 6 shorter oblong in- 

 curved glabrous. Stamens 6 as in male. Drupe green 

 with white spots elliptic flat. 

 Nephroica elegans, n. sp. 



A slender twining plant growing among grasses, 

 stem hairy, laticiferous. Leaves deltoid to lanceolate 

 acute or elliptic lanceolate, base rounded, trinerved reti- 

 culations distinct sprinkled with hairs, midrib hairy on 

 both sides, 2 inches or less long J- J wide, petiole } inch 

 long hairy. Eacemes axillary T ^ inch long hairy. 

 Sepals very small ovate obtuse 5. Petals outer rotun- 

 date ovate acute 3. Inner petals ligulate oblong with 

 two long linear points, 6. Stamens as long 6, with 

 fairly stout filaments and globose anther cells transverse- 

 ly dehiscing. 



Tringanu : Cherating river in grass on the shore, 

 Aug. 25, 1889 (Eidley) ; Bindings: Lumut (Eidley). 



The Dindings plant has larger and more elliptic 

 leaves than those of the Cherating plant, some of the 

 latter being very narrowed. The genus is referred to 

 CoccuJus by the authors of the Flora of British India, 

 but it seems to me a very distinct one, as Miers has 

 arranged it. 

 Stephania rotunda, Lour. 



Slender climber stem glabrous. Leaves thin ovate 

 petiole glabrous above beneath scurfy on the nerves, 

 nerves 6 elevated above (when dry) 2f long, 2^ inch wide 

 reticlations conspicuous, petiole slender scurfy 1^ inch 

 long. Panicles not axillary slender 1-4 inches long, 

 with few slender branches, and umbellate small flowers. 

 Pedicels short. Flower t 1 q inch across. Sepals linear 

 oblong narrowed at base obtuse 3. Petals ovate 

 rounded larger 2. Inner petals 3 lanceolate oblique. 

 Stamens connate in a round disc, stalked, anthers below 

 the disc. 



R. A. Soc, "No. 54. 1909 



