182 NEW AND EAEE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Sandy places. Negri Sembilan at Seremban; Perak, 

 Tanjong Malim, 'Kuala Kangsar, Kuala Temengoh. 



I cannot identify this plant with any other species. Prain 

 named it V. vexillata, Benth., but that has large purple flowers, 

 this very small yellow ones. 



Bauhinia flammifera, Bid!, n. sp. 



The common Bauhinia which forms such a conspicuous 

 mass of colour in the woods of the low country in Selangor 

 and Perak, has been identified by Baker, Prain and others as 

 Bauhinia integrifolia, Eoxb. In an expedition to Temengoh 

 in Perak I found a very beautiful and distinct species of this 

 groups which I later named B. holosericea, but on critically 

 examining the plants described as B. integrifolia in the Kew 

 herbarium, I find that the original integrifolia of Eoxburgh 

 (of which there are specimens at Kew with his writing at- 

 tached) is holosericea from Penang Hill, nor can I find any 

 name for the common lowland plant to which I therefore give 

 the name of flammifera. 



Bauhinia flammifera, Eidl. is a very lofty climber with ob- 

 scurely angled twigs, scurfy red, pubescent when young. The 

 leaves are thin in texture, ovate cordate, very rarely entire 

 and usually shortly bifid or refuse at the tip, about 4-nerved 

 and 3 in. long and up to 5 in. wide; petiole slender, 2 in. 

 long and pubescent, the red pubescence running on to the 

 nerves in old leaves. The terminal panicles are as much 

 as 8 in. long and as wide; red, pubescent pedicels .6 in. long. 

 Calyx-tube distinctly shorter than the sepals which are nearly 

 glabrous. The petals are oblong crisped narrowing into the 

 claw .3 in. long, hairy outside; rich yellow turning bright red. 

 The ovary is hairy. 



Occurs in the southern half of the Malay Peninsula. 



Distrib. Malacca (Griffith) ; Selangor, common; Perak, 

 Kinta Eiver (814) and Sungei Eava (Kunstler 964), Taiping 

 Hills. 



Bauhinia integrifolia, Eoxburgh. 



Has much smaller leaves especially the ones in the flower- 

 ing sprays and they are never bifid at the top. Branches and 

 leaves beneath hairy, but sometimes nearly glabrous. The 

 flowers are considerably smaller and the pedicels .8 in. ; the 

 rachis is black, hairy with shorter red hairs and the flowers 

 fall off after flowering so as to leave a long bare rachis, very 

 unlike the corymbose-like inflorescence of flammifera. The 

 calyx is more hairy, the . petals almost bristly. Eoxburgh's 

 drawing and description give them as light yellow, but I 

 have seen them turning bright red. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



