302 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 
on a sandy bank on the railway near Kota Bharu in Kelantan, but 
never before as far from the sea shore as at Bukit Tangga, about 
35 miles away. It is probable that a cart load of seasand contain- 
ing seeds of this convolvulus had somehow been sent to this spot,. 
and the seeds had germinated and grown on a sandy spot near the 
stream edge where | found it. 
CYRTANDRACEAE. 
Didissandra castaneaefolia Ridley, n. sp. 
Stem 3 in. tall. Leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong, base 
narrowed minutely unequally cordate, edge coarsely serrate, mem- 
branous glabrous above; nerves 15 pairs and midrib coarsely hairy 
beneath 5.5 to 7 in. long, 1.75 to 2 in. wide; petiole 1.75 to 3 in. 
long, coarsely hairy. Peduncles 4 in. long, coarsely hairy. Flowers. 
in a terminal cyme of 3.  Bracts: linear- oblong, A? im. ons: 
Sepals lanceolate acuminate, blunt .3 in. long, .1 in. wide, hairy. 
Corolla .75 in. long sparsely short hairy, lobes small, limb .4 in. 
wide (when dry). 
Hab. Pahang, Kwala Teku, Seimund. 
I have no clue as to the colour of the flowers of this species. 
which is most nearly allied to D. glabrescens Ridley, but it is much 
more hairy and has more and smaller flowers. 
Didymocarpus castaneaefolia Ridley, n. sp. 
Stem erect, woody over + in. long, .2 in. thick corky. Leaves. 
chartaceous lanceolate elliptic subacute, base cuneate, edge closely 
serrate, glabrous above except the midrib and nerves in young 
leaves; nerves about 25 pairs parallel, sunk above inarching with- 
in the margin, 5 in. long, 2 in. wide; petiole .5 in, long, hairy. 
Scapes 7 in. long hairy, in upper axils with about 5 flowers, the 
lower pair distant from the terminal ones. Bracts narrow lanceo- 
late linear, green hairy .4 in. long. Pedicels .25 in. long, purple 
hairy. Sepals lanceolate- acuminate .12 in. long. Corolla DeSean 
long, tube cylindric at base gradually dilate upwards, lina .a) tak 
Ww ide, lobes blunt rounded. © apsule 2.5 in. long, narrow, cylindric. 
Hab. Mountains at 5,000 ft. Perak, Gunong Inas, Vapp 
Alhed to D. venusta but the leaves more clo:ely serrate and 
distinctly petioled. — 
Loxocarpus minimus Lidley, n. sp. 
Small stemless herb. Leaves 2 or 3 ovate to oblong-lanceolate. 
or oblanceolate, densely white silky all over, .5 to .75 in. long, .2 
to .25 in. wide: petiole .5 in. long or less. Pedunele 1.5 in. long 
slender, silky bearing one to two flowers at the top. .Pedycel (rim: 
long. Bract small ‘linear. Sepals lanceolate .10 in. long, silky. 
Corolla hardly longer campanulate, .2 in. long, light blue-violet, 
Jour. Straits Branch 
