NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 303. 
sub-regular, hairy outside. Style longer; stigma large, round. 
Capsule ovoid beaked, hardly longer than calyx, splitting on the 
upper edge. Seeds oblong acute, pitted reticulate, dark green. 
Hab. On two damp rocks in the forests, Negri Sembilan, 
Bukit Tangga, Ridley 
This remarkable little plant differs from the typical Loxocarpi 
in the short regular corolla and ovoid capsule which however, de- 
hisces normally on the upper edge. 
Cyrtandra patula [idley, n. sp. 
A big spreading shrub about 6 feet tall, bark corky wrinkled 
transversely pale, below glabrous; young parts tomentose. Leaves 
opposite, chartaceous oblanceolate acute, base long-narrowed blunt, 
edge serrate, glabrous above; nerves slender 15 pairs and midrib 
hairy beneath; young leaves thickly tomentose, 11 to 12 inches 
long, 4 inches wide; “petiole (OBIE 42) WO st) IML, long, when young 
densely tomentose eventually glabrous. Cyme .4 in. long with 
about 7% or 8 flowers, silky hairy. Bracts small, hairy. Pedicels 
1 to .2 in. long. Calyx tubular with 5 very slender points silky 
naniry,. lun long, yellowish. Corolla .5 in. long, campanulate, 
lobes rounded hairy outside, dull white with brown mottling in the 
throat. Stamens white; anthers connivent. Fruit .5 in. long 
slender cylindric, narrowed to the style. 
Hab. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga. In muddy streams in 
dense forest behind the Bungalow, Ridley. 
Alhed to C. bataviensis Clarke of Java. 
ACANTHACEAE. 
Ebermaiera longispica Ridley, n. sp. 
Herb over 12 in. tall, quite glabrous. Leaves rather thin, 
broad lanceolate, narrowed to both ends; nerves 18 pairs parallel; 
6 in. long, 2 in. wide; petiole slender, 2 inches long. Inflorescence 
racemose, racemes solitary axillary solitary or 2 to 4 ina panicle, 
with peduncle 3 inches long. Flowers numerous distant. Bracts 
ovate or oblong blunt foliaceous, petioled, .25 in. long and .12 in. 
wide. Pedicel .1 in. long. Sepals lanceolate acuminate. Co- 
rolla .75 in. long, tube narrow cylindric at base, .25 in. long, 
gradually dilate to limb, .5 in. long, dull pink outside, and within 
tube, Lmb lobes blunt, i in. lone, Santis, Stamens 4, diadelphous, 
shorter than tube. Stvle included; stigma bifid. Capsule oblong 
-15 im, long. 
Hab. Woods, Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga. Selangor, Ulu 
Gombak, fidley. 
The only plant this seems to be at all near is H. Griffithiana 
which has the same kind of broad oblong bracts. 
R. A. Soc., No. 86 1922. 
