New and Rare Malayan Plants. 
SerRIES NII. 
By Neahimniay. 
The forest of the Malay Peninsula still continues to supply to 
the botanist many new and interesting species; and it will doubtless 
be many years before it becomes difficult to add to the list of our 
flora. The following additions continue the series published in the 
Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Some 
of them are of plants collected by myself in Selangor, and in a short 
but productive excursion to Bukit Tangga in Negri Sembilan in 
December 1920, and to the Semangkok Pass in January 1921. 
Others were collected by Mr. H. C. Robinson, C. B. Kloss and Mr. 
Seimund in various parts of the Peninsula. 
The Bukit Tangga locality is 14 miles from Seremban where 
there is a small rest house situated at the top of the pass to Jelebu. 
The hill behind the bungalow rises to about 2,400 feet elevation 
and is densely atforested to the top. Although generally speaking 
this area has a flora closely resembling that of the Selangor hills, 
it contained quite a number of novelties which are certainly absent 
from Selangor. Many years ago Mr. Cantley had a collector in 
this district and it was probably near here that he obtained a 
number of plants never since collected. 
POLYGALACEAE. 
Polygala (Chamaebuxus) pulchra, Hassk. Flor. XX VY. (142. 
Beibl. 32: 
A slender woody shrub about + feet tall. Lieaves membranous 
thin, oblong-lanceolate; nerves slender, 9 pairs; 8 in. long, 3 in. 
wide; petiole .25) in. lome. Racemes short, “about 1) mewiomas 
pendulous. Sepals 2, outer ones short, one saccate ovate acute, 
the other smaller ovate, green petaloid. Sepals ovate round, .25 in. 
‘long. Petals 2, short, oblong blunt; keel 4-lobed, fleshy, not 
crested. All white tinted yellow. Capsule obovoid orbicular, 
deeply retuse, not winged except at the tip, green tipped purple or 
nearly all purple violet, .2 in. long, .8: in. wide. Seed subglobose, 
‘aril scarlet. 
Tab. In hill woods, Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangea, Ridley. 
Selangor, Ginting Bidai, Ridley. Also in Java and Saat 
This species 1s quite distinct, especially in life, from P. vene- 
nosa in its slender woody stem, its thinner leaves, short racemes not 
elongating to 5 inches long or more, the smaller flowers with small 
obovate rounded petaloid sepals. and the smaller capsule not winged 
along the sides. It is not so striking a plant as the great suc eulent 
P. venenosa so common and conspicuous in our forests , hor are the: 
flowers so brightly coloured in spite of its name. 
Jour. Straits’ Branch: 
