NEW AND EAEE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 18T 



Justicia odontites, Eidl. n. sp. 



Slender, erect simple herb, 2 feet tall, puberulous. Leaves 

 in pairs 2 in. apart, lanceolate acuminate, base narrowed, 

 nerves slender elevate beneath, 7 pairs pubescent beneath, 

 raphides very abundant on both sides, 31.25 in. long, 1-1.25 in. 

 wide, petiole .75 in. long, pubescent. Spike 2.25 in. long, 

 hairy. Bracts lanceolate acute, narrowed to base, upper ones 

 ovate or nearly rhomboid, green, hairy. .25 in. long. Flowers 

 solitary in axils of bracts, secund. Sepals lanceolate long, 

 acuminate, narrow, green, hairy, longer than the corolla tube.. 

 Corolla .5 in. long, hairy outside, lower limb 3-lobed, lobes 

 rounded, apparently pink: anther cells narrow, linear, oblong 

 one half way below the other, tailed. Pistil glabrous. 



Johor. Kota Tinggi (Eidley 15423) . Allied to J. secundb- 

 flora, Eidl. but taller, laxer and hairy. 



Rungia laxiflora, Clarke in the Materials, does not seem to bear 

 any relationship to B. minutiflora or B. pectinata, Xees, but 

 is a Justicia closely allied to the preceding. 



Justicia flaccida, Eidl. Journ. Eoy. As. Soc. Str. Br. 57, p. 82. 



The name flaccida has been anticipated by Kurz. The name 

 is therefore altered to breviflos under which name it was dis- 

 tributed. 



Eranthemum crenulatum, Nees. 



It is quite obvious from Nees' description in Plantae 

 Asiaticae Eariores and AVallich's specimens that the plant in- 

 tended by him under this name was what Clark named later 

 as E. porphyranthos, and there is a good picture of the Penang 

 Hill plant under the name crenulatum in the Botanical Eegis- 

 ter t. 279. Nees added some Indian plants to his species as 

 varieties, and indeed they appear to be very nearly allied. 

 YTallich"s types were the fully grown form, called by Clarke 

 var. evoluiior. 



Eranthemum graciliflorum, Nees Wall. PI. As. Ear. 107. 



This plant has been passed over by Clarke and others as 

 unidentifiable. The specimen in Wallieh's Herbarium No. 

 242 7 was collected by George Porter by the Kosea Eiver in 

 Penang (I do not know where this is), but the plant though in 

 bad condition is I think undoubtedly E. malaccensis, Clarke, 

 with rather broader leaves than usual. 



Eranthemum album, Nees. 



Given by Clarke as from Malacca (Griffith) may be 

 excluded from our flora. The specimens are certainly not 

 the Indian E. aUmm, but apparently bad specimens of E. 

 crenulatum (porphyranthos, Clarke). 



R. A. Soc, No. 82, 1920. 



