76 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



Malvaceae. 



Sida carpinifolia, L. Bangtaphan (Keith\ Perlis, Kanga. 

 Cosmopolitan. 



<S'. rhombifolia, L. Bangtaphan (Keith), Perlis, TebingTinggi, 



Cosmopolitan. 

 S. cordifolia, L. Lankawi Beach at Kwah. 



Rare in the peninsula. 

 S. spinosa, L. Bangtaphan (Keith). 



Tropics generally. 

 S. Iiumilis, Willd. Perlis, Juttra ; Kanga, Bukit Lagi, etc. 



Flowers ochre yellow, common, absent from the 

 peninsula. Distrib. Tropical Africa, India and America. 



Urena lobata, L. Perlis Kanga, Ginting Kabok etc., var sinuata 

 Lankawi Kwah (Curtis). Cosmopolitan. A very tall 

 variety about 8 feet with nearly entire very woolly leaves, 

 grew on heaths at Setul. 



Wissadula rostrata, Planch. Perlis, Juttra, Chupeng. Flowers 

 white with yellow centre. 



Distrib. All the tropics. Rare in the peninsula only 

 in Pahang. 



Dccascliistia pulchra, n. sp. 



A small shrub 1 to 2 feet tall branched. The stems 

 sprinkled with stellate hairs. Leaves opposite ovate or 

 orbicular obtuse, base broad slightly retuse or entire, ser- 

 rate, nerves 8 radiating from the base, covered with 

 stellate hairs equally on both sides, 1 inch long and as 

 wide, petiole as long slender. Flowers numerous but 

 opening singly crowded at the ends of the branches nearly 

 sessile in the axils of reduced leaves. Epicalyx campa- 

 nulate with five linear acuminate lobes, tube short hairy or 

 glabrescent, lobes stellate hairy- Sepals linear acuminate 

 hairy. Corolla nearly 2 inches across crimson, petals 5 



Jour. Straits Branch 



