152 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



Eranthemum porpliyranthos, Clarke. A stouter form than 

 usual, taller, flowers violet or white, leaves thicker. Seeds 

 reticulate. Capsule pubescent. Kedah, Gunong Geriang. 

 Perlis, Tebing Tinggi (14973); Bukit Lagi. Bangtaphan 

 (Keith); Trang at Chong (Native). 

 Distrib. Malay peninsula. 



E. malaccense, Clarke. Lankawi (8335, Ridley), Kwah (Cur- 

 tis), Perlis, Chupeng (14971), Bangtaphan (Keith). 



The flowers have smaller lobes than the typical 

 plant and it is often dwarf here. It fruits here, which it 

 rarely does elsewhere. Capsule l-l-£ inch long, narrowed 

 base, f inch long, dilated portion \ inch wide, beaked, 

 glabrous, fuscous greenish. Seeds 4, orbicular, reticulate, 

 rugose, brown. 



Clinacanthus Burmanni, Nees. Tongkah (Curtis). 



Justicia subcymosa, Clarke. Perlis, Tebing Tinggi, (14961), 

 Kanga. Kedah, Gunong Geriang (14960), 

 Distrib. south to Selangor. 



J. sclangorcnsis, Clarke. Lankawi, Kwah (Curtis 2117). 



Clarke quotes this number and has written up this 

 sheet under J. ptychostoma, but it is exactly similar to 

 the type of J. selangorcnsis, Ridley 7587, from Ginting 

 Peras, except that the bracts are pubescent ; the Selangor 

 plant is however in fruit, and may have lost its pubes- 

 cence. 



J. ptychostoma, Nees. Lankawi (Curtis). Perlis, Ginting 

 Kabok. Nainsap Bangtaphan (Keith). Distrib. Malay 

 peninsula and Sumatra. 



J % uber r C. B. Clarke. Chong (Native). Distrib. Limestone 

 rocks, Perak and Selangor. 



J. valida, n. sp. 



A tall half-shrubby plant with a rather stout 

 stem, nlabrous, except the inflorescence and young parts 

 which are pubescent. Leaves opposite? equal, herbaceous, 



Jour. Straits Branch 



