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Kopsia, sp. Punga (Curtis No. 2937). A small tree, flowers 

 white, resembles K. fmticosa A. Dec. but the flowers are 

 larger and not pink, and it is a tree. 



Holarrhena. This genus consists of about eight known species 

 natives of Africa and Indo-China. The one Indian species 

 H. antid ysenterica, is recorded for the Malay peninsula 

 from a specimen obtained at Malacca by Captain Wight, 

 in Wight's Icones. As the plant has never again been seen 

 anywhere in the peninsula it was probably collected in a 

 garden. 



H. Curtisii, King and Gamble, collected at Trang by Curtis. 

 March 1895 (No. 3392) resembles most my H, pulcher- 

 rima, but differs in its larger flowers and hairy leaves. 



H. pulchcrrima, n. sp. 



A shrub three or four feet tall, much branched, 

 almost entirely glabrous, stems smooth, brown. Leaves 

 rather strict coriaceous lanceolate, acuminate, acute, 

 base slightly narrowed, 4 inches long, f inch wide, 

 shining above, paler beneath, quite glabrous, nerves fine, 

 7-8 pairs ascending, meeting in long loops near the margins, 

 reticulations distinct. Cymes terminal lax, abcut 14 

 flowered, 2 inches long, 3 inches wide. Bracts linear, 

 narrow, margins fringed with rather long scatteicd hairs, 

 4 inch long, upper ones shorter. Flowers white, fragrant, 

 shortly (nearly \ inch) pedicelled, pedicels and branches of 

 cyme glabrous. Calyx split nearly to the base, lobes linear, 

 bright green, margined with cilia, nearly i inch long. 

 Corolla tube slender, \ inch long, enlarged at the base, 

 pubescent within, and without lobes as long \ inch wide, 

 oblong obtuse, narrowed at the base, glabrous inside 

 minutely pubescent outside. Stamens very small, lanceo- 

 late, mucronulate, filament half as long as the anthers, 

 ovary conoid glabrous, style short longer than the ovary 

 thick, stigma conic blunt. Follicles 1\ inches long, linear, 



Jour, Straits Branch 



