NEW AND BARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 145 



Dindixgs : at Simpit near Lumut (Ridley). 



Allied to B. Curtisii, Oliv. of Penang, but the leaves are 

 much broader with more nerves and conspicuous reticulations. 

 They are dark brown when adult and dry. 



Buettneria uncinata, Mast, in Hook, til., PL Brit. Ind. i. p. 377 

 and King, Journ., As. Soc. Bengal, p. 200, 91. (Sterculiacece). 

 The type of this in Herb. Kew, is a fruiting specimen of 

 Mallotus Griffith ianus, Hook. fil. (Eiiphorbiacew) collected by 

 Maingay in Malacca. Another sheet put with it in Herb. Kew 

 as possibly the same is also a sjDecies of Mallotus. 



Waltheria indica, Linn, is given by King as occurring " in all the 

 provinces, a weed," I have never seen a specimen of this at all 

 from the Malay Peninsula, either in Kew or the British Mu- 

 seum herbarium : nor have ever seen it myself anywhere in the 

 Peninsula. It is a common weed in many parts of the world 

 and may be expected to turn up ; but it has not done so yet. 



Murray a catoxylon, Eidl. (Eutacecv). I found that this plant 

 was flowering in the Singapore Botanic Gardens in the spring 

 of 1915, although little more than a bush about 6 feet tall. 

 The petals and stamens have never been described. The petals 

 are 1*5 inches long and -25 inches wide in the upper part ; 

 they are linear sparthulate, gradually narrowed to the base and 

 pale green, four or five in number. The sepals or rather lobes 

 of the calyx are also either 1 or 5. The stamens nearly half 

 an inch long, have long slender filaments, small oblong anthers 

 with the connective prolonged into a short point beyond the 

 cells; they are 8 in number. In the flower and foliage this 

 plant resembles most a Murray a, but the fruit is quite unlike 

 that of any species described, and is more like that of Limonia. 

 On the whole I think it better to keep it in the genus Murraya. 



Diodia sarmntosa, Sw. Prodr. Yeg. Ind. Occ. p. 30. (Ruoiacece) . 

 I found this new addition to our Flora abundantly on the East 

 Coast road near Tanjong Katong in Singapore. It is a her- 

 baceous plant groAving as much as 2 feet tall, the stem hairy, 

 four-angled, stout, the ridges crisped in the upper part. 

 Leaves obovate, sessile, 2*5 inches long, 2*25 inches wide, apex 

 subacute, base narrowed, hairy on both sides, with 6 pairs of 

 nerves; stipules linear, bristles numerous. Flowers numerous, 

 crowded in axillary heads. Calyx lobes 4, hairy, -25 inches 

 long. Corolla T2 inches long, lobes rounded white tipped with 

 lilac. Capsule T inch long hairy, splitting from the top to 

 near the base into 2 cocci, which dehisce on the inner face. 

 Each contains one elliptic brown seed deeply grooved on the 

 inner face. 



This plant is a native of South America and the West Indies 

 and also occurs in Tropical Africa and the Mascarene islands, 

 but I cannot find any specimens from Asia in the Kew Her- 

 barium, nor any record of its occurring in any part of Asia. 



R. A. Soc, No. 73, 1916. 



