TO LOWER SI AM. 149. 



(a) Narrowly lanceolate, 2| inches long, J inch wide, 

 nerves prominent ascending. (Perlis 15052). 



(b) Broadly lanceolate, 3 inches long, f inch wide, petiole 



longer i inch long, nerves more spreading. Setul 

 (15051). 



(c) Much smaller plant often only 3 inches tall, leaves 



smaller, occasionally ovate, usually broadly lanceolate, 

 1 inch long, § inch wide. Inflorescence half to 1 

 inch tall, compact. 



Bracts spathulate, ovate, acute, hairy with white hairs, 

 4 inch long. Calyx lobes lorate obtuse, thickly white 

 hairy as long as the corolla tube. Corolla J inch long, white, 

 lobes rounded, glabrous outside, mouth full of white 

 hairs. Stamens 4, linear, oblong glabrous. Capsule 4 inch 

 long, oblong, slightly flattened hairy at the tip, shortly 

 beaked. 



Kedah, Alor Sta in fields, Perlis, Kanga, Setul. 



This plant seems to be very variable and different 

 as these forms are in appearance they seem to run into 

 each other, and I cannot specifically distinguish them. 



Cystacanthus punctatus, n. sp. 



Stem simple, leafy only at the top, 15 inches tall, 

 about i inch through, internodes rather long and swollen 

 at both ends. Leaves herbaceous, lanceolate, apex 

 shortly acuminate, base long acuminate, glabrous when 

 adult, margins undulate, 6 inches long, 2 inches wide, 

 nerves 8 pairs meeting in straight arches. Inflorescence 

 terminal spicate, 5 inches long, flowers numerous, crowd- 

 ed, rachis pubescent as are bracts and uppermost leaves. 

 Bracts leafy ones, ovate, pubescent. Bracteols linear, 

 pubescent, i inch long. Calyx lobes linear, acuminate, 

 tube campanulate, as long as lobes, shorter than the 

 bracteole, pubescent, Corolla half an inch long, tube 

 campanulate, decurved, pubescent, lobes short, rounded., 



R. A. Soc, No. 59. 1911. 



