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Penang Hill (Curtis 73), (Ridley 5239); Dindings 
woods near Bruas (Ridley 8364); Perak, Waterloo 
estate (Ridley 2946) ; Temengoh Woods (Ridley). 
This plant is somewhat variable, and different forms 
look often very distinct, this however I believe is rather 
due to locality than to actual varietal difference. The 
Penang Hill plant is a short plant with short 
inflorescences. It grows abundantly on the rocky 
banks on the road to the waterfall. In the Dindings 
and Waterlooestate woods the panicle is longer and quite 
capillary and it was from these specimens that Cogniaux 
gave his manuscript name. At Temengoh we got two 
forms in one of which the panicle is much branched 
with distinct slender capillary branches. It is totally 
different from A. exzgua, Bl., and in life the bright rose 
pink stamens and white petals are so conspicuous that 
no one would take it for the coarse tall green-flowered 
A. exwua, Bl. 
A. porphyranthera, n. sp. 
Shrub, branches slender angled dark colored covered 
with short scabrous red papillae. Leaves opposite 
equal elliptic, or elliptic lanceolate acuminate above gla- 
brous except for red scurf on the midrib, beneath nerves 
and nervules red scurfy, 5 inches long, 2 inches wide 
or less; petiole slender grooved scurfy 1 inch long. In- 
florescence terminal 2-25 inches long, a lax panicle of 
5 to 7 branches, 1-14 inch long with dense cymes of 
few flowers on the ends, all scurfy. Braets linear 75 inch 
long. Ovary longer than broad goblet-shaped scabrid. 
Calyx lobes triangular acute almost mucronate short. 
Petals lanceolate acuminate as long as the filaments. 
Stamens 8 all similar, filaments short, anthers 735 inch 
long, blue purple, cylindric acuminate straight, base 
shortly prolonged but no dorsal process. Style filiform, 
a little longer. Capsule obovoid urn-shaped glabrous 
with eight ribs. Woods, Ulu Temengoh. 
R. A. Soc., No. 57, I910. 
