A SCIENTIFIC. EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. +: 55 
It is met with in Burmah, Mergui, and the Lankawi 
islands as well as Perak. 
Ophiorrhiza rosea, n. sp. 
Whole plant about a foot tall, often much branched, 
stem woody at base, above pubescent with short in- 
curved hairs. Leaves lanceolate acuminate at both 
ends, lower ones often unequal, upper ones equal, 3-4 
inches long 1 inch wide, above quite glabrous, dark 
green, beneath usually red, (occasionally pale whitish) 
midribs and nerves scurfy, petiole ¢-3 inch long. 
Stipules setaceous pubescent. Cymes solitary ter- 
minal or axillary also pubescent, shortly peduncled 
4-1 inch long, branches divaricate short, lengthening 
in fruit to 1 inch long. Calyx urceolate with 
very short lanceolate teeth, pubescent. Bud nar- 
row cylindric. Corollaz inch long red, cylindric 
slightly dilated upwards minutely pubescent, lobes 
short oblong rounded 5. Anthers linear base cordate 
nearly as long as the filament. Capsule ¢ inch across 
linear oblong, sinus obsolete or very nearly so glabrous 
not margined. 
Abundant in the Temengoh woods. <A form in the 
Kuala Temengoh woods had longer narrower leaves 
covered with very short hairs with broad bases. 
This species is nearest to O. argentea, Wall. O. 
Harrisiania var argentea, differing in its pubescent stem, 
and seabrid mibrib, pink leaves and red flowers, seta- 
ceous stipules. Ido not see how the O. argentea, Wall, 
as representéd in the peninsula by the specimens quoted 
by King can be O. Harriszana if the figure Wight’s Icones 
No. 1162 represents the latter plant. Wight’s figure 
shews a creeping plant not a small bush as argentea is. 
The whole genus is a very difficult one, the species seém- 
ing to run into each other with no very clear distinctive 
characters, and wants very careful critical study. 
Rk. A. Soc., No. 57, 1910. 
