186 NEW AND RARE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 



SAPOTACEAE. 



Chrysophyllum Curtisii, King and Gamble. 



The flowers of this plant collected on Penang Hill both 

 by WaUich and Curtis have never been described; I find, how- 

 ever, a specimen in flower collected by Curtis just above Grace- 

 Dieu Bungalow on Penang Hill at 2,000 ft. altitude, " a small 

 tree" in Herb. Kew. The flowers are in axillary fascicles of 

 3-5 on pedicels .2 in. Ion g entirely covered, as are the sepals. 

 with coppery hairs. Two outer sepals ovate, blunt, .1 in. 

 long, hairy, 3 inner sepals much smaller, oblong. Corolla 

 very short, white, lobes rounded 5, with brown streaks in cen- 

 tre, tube very short. Stamens minute, filaments much shorter 

 than the ovate anthers. Ovary red, hairy. Style thick, as 

 long as petals. 



The tree seems to be peculiar to the top of Penang Hill. 



GESNERACEAE. 



Didymocarpus modesta, Eidl. n. sp. 



Creeping and ascending, a foot tall, pubescent, hairy all 

 over. Leaves in subdistant pairs, oblong, shortly narrowed at 

 both ends, blunt, .3 in. long, 1 in. wide, petiole .25 in. Flowers 

 in the uppermost axils on slender peduncles .25 in. long or 

 less. Calyx lobes narrow, acuminate, hairy, free nearly to base. 

 Corolla .25 in. long, pubescent, tube cylindrie, limb hardly 2- 

 lipped; lobes short, rounded ciliate and almost minutely denti- 

 culate on the edge, white. Pistil hairy. 



Selangor, Ulu Gombak (Ridley) and Eantau Panjang. 



This is near D. reptans var. violascens but has leaves 

 hairy all over. Violascens too has the flowers as large as and 

 with the projecting lower lip of D. reptans of Penang Hill, 

 the true form, and the pedicels though not as long are longer 

 than in D. modesta. The corolla of D. modesta however, is 

 quite small only half as long as that of true reptans and nearly 

 regular, the lower three lobes are indeed longer than the up- 

 per ones, but are quite similar to them, short and round. 

 The true D. reptans of Jack, seems to be confined to Penang. 

 The plants on the main land are the varieties monticola and 

 violascens. which more or less run into the type of plant. 



ACANTHACEAE. 

 Justicia vegeta, var. 



The original type of this from Gunong Mengkuang 

 (Robinson) had large leaves and all the inflorescences axillary 

 and .5 in. long. The plants collected by Kloss on Menuang 

 Gasing had a terminal spike 2-2.5 in. long. This class of 

 Justicia usually has terminal spikes and probably this latter 

 is more normal. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



