44 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



\ inch long. Sepals 2 ovate rounded, \ inch 

 long. Petals 2 narrower and shorter obtuse linear oblong. 

 Stamens in a globose head rather few. Anthers sub- 

 globose not apiculate. Female flowers sepals 2 oblong 

 red. Petals nearly as large 2. white. Styles 3 separate 

 nearly to base. Stigmas curved capitate. Fruit 

 capsule red three winged. ] inch across, 2 wings short 

 triangular, one longer triangular obtuse. 



Selangor: Klang Gates on sandy banks. Aug. 1908 

 (No. 13523) ; Pahang track (Ridley 8591). 



A pretty dwarf begonia with bright red stems and 

 nerves of leaf, allied to B. Forbesii, King. The Pahang 

 track plant is rather stouter and less hairy, but I think 

 is the same. 



RUBIACEAE. 



Xantkophytum rupestre, n. sp. 



A little shrub about 6-8 inches tall branched steins 

 slender light brown densely covered with long silky ap- 

 pressed, and somewhat felted hairs pale brown. Leaves 

 obovate to ovate acuminate acute at both ends, subcori- 

 aceous glabrous dull green above densely white felted be- 

 neath, nerves ten f>airs prominent beneath, reticulations 

 beneath conspicuous, 1-2 inches long f-1 inch wide 

 petiole very short -J inch long. Stipules as long as the 

 petiole ovate acuminate. Inflorescences axillary, panicled 

 of two branches, scorpioids. Flowers 10 in a panicle, 

 all woolly. Pedicels very short peduncle none. Calyx 

 lobes 5, triangular acute deep green. Corolla J inch long 

 white woolly hairy, tube narrow at base then abruptly 

 dilated, lobes 5 short ovate mucronate, tube hairy both 

 within and without. Stamens 5 included, adnate to the 

 tube, with very short filaments. Anthers oblong yellow, 

 with a short mucro at the tip. Style included, rather 

 stout. Stigma oblong large, stigmatic surface yellow, 

 capitate transversely grooved. All glabrous, disc annu- 

 lar black. Fruit ^ inch long cylindric-turbinate felted 



Jour. Straits Branch 



