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crimson r& inch across, lobes triangular with long cilia, 

 Stamens 4. Female flower solitary in the upper axils. 

 Pedicels 2 inches long, hairy. Perianth as in the male 

 but much larger, the lobes longer and narrower, a quarter 

 of an inch across. Fruit globose, pale green, woolly, i 

 inch long. Seed reniform, pale, back broad rounded, 

 transversely minutely striate 



Lankawi Telayah Tujoh in Burau Bay, abundant 

 along the path to the seven wells, and on the rocks. A 

 very pretty plant and worth cultivating. 



Actephila javanica, Miq. Lankawi (Curtis). Distrib. Malay 

 peninsula and Islands. 



Andrachne fruticosa, Dec. 



Lankawi small islands and Terutau (Curtis). PerHs, 

 at the foot of the rocks, Tebing Tinggi, (14883), Bang- 

 taphan (Keith), by wayside and in jungle. 



Distrib. Perak, and the top of the Batu Caves, 

 Selangor, (Eidley, 8203), also Timor Laut and Java. 



This little branched shrublet seems to be a widely 

 spread limestone rock plant. In the Perlis plant, the 

 pedicels of the male flowers are much longer than the 

 flowers nearly half an inch long, glabrous and fine as the 

 finest pair. Hooker describes them as little longer than 

 the male flower and hairy. The disc glands are as long 

 as the small petals, linear, obtuse, and look more like 

 staminodes. The Selangor plant has fleshier nearly 

 glabrous leaves, possibly it is specifically distinct. 



Glochidion laevigatum, Hook. fil. Puket (Curtis), Bang- 

 taphan (Keith), Lankawi, Kwah (Curtis), Kedah, Alor 

 Sta (14894). 



Distrib. Tenasserim to Singapore. 



Gl. dcsmogyne, Hook. til. Kedah, Alor Sta, Lankawi, Kwah 

 (.Curtis, 2558). 



Distrib. Tenasserim, and Peninsula. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



