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Laportea crenulata, Gaud. Bangtaphan (Keith\ Kedah, Gun- 

 ong Geriang (14954). 



Distrib. India, Ceylon, Malay peninsula and islands. 



Pilea minutiflora, n. sp. 



Stems several, erect, succulent, 18 inches tall, i inch 

 through, internodes dilated towards the centre, olivaceous, 

 glabrous. Leaves opposite, somewhat unequal, ovate, acute 

 serrate, pale green, glaucous, 3 nerved, 5 inches long, 2^ 

 inches wide, petiole 3 inches long. Stipules caducous, very 

 small, lanceolate, acuminate, edged purple red. Panicles 

 half an inch long with few branches under half an inch 

 wide, flowers numerous on the upperside of the branches, 

 Males few together in the axils of the branches, pale 

 greenish white, shortly pedicelled, Perianth lobes four, 

 oblong, connate at the base, to inch long. Stamens 4, 

 lilaments pale green, flat nearly as long as the perianth, 

 anthers elliptic with two semicircular white cells with 

 an intermediate green connective. Pistillode minute. 

 Female flowers much smaller, Perianth utricular with 4 

 short teeth. Pistil cylindric, conic with five or six short 

 styles. 



Trang (coll. Md. Aniif.) cultivated in the Botanic 

 Gardens, Singapore, 1910. 



Pellionia javanica, Wedd. Setul, Bukit Eajah Wang (14951), 

 Bangtaphan (Keith). 



Distrib. Malay peninsula. 



This species was based on a plant labelled " Java 

 Lobb.' : Lobb collected in Singapore, Penang, Java and 

 Borneo, and the localities were so mixed in distribution 

 that a large proportion w T ere affixed to the wrong plant. 

 Hooker (Flora of British India) suggests that Lobb got 

 this plant in Singapore, but it does not occur here and 

 apparently is absent from Java, and no doubt its locality 



R. A. Soc, No. 59. I9H. 



