304 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 
Strobilanthes latebrosa Ridley, n. sp. 
Big spreading shrub 8 feet tall, glabrous. Leaves chartaceous, 
ovate-lanceolate cuspidate blunt, base decurrent on petiole, edge 
undulate ; nerves 10 pairs, secondary nerves almost as conspicuous ; 
9 in. long, + in. wide; petiole 1.5 in. long. Flower heads solitary 
or in threes axillary or on short lateral shoots, 1.25 in. long; 
peduncle .3 in. long. Bracts numerous, large leaflike, outer ones 
ovate 1 in. long, .5 1. wide, inner ones linear-lanceolate blunt, 
narrower, hairy, all green. Corolla 2.in. long, 1 in. across the limb, 
white, tube slender, cylindric at base .5 in. long, above abruptly 
dilated, urn-shaped, lobes short. round. Stamens enclosed in tube. 
Capsule .75 in. long subacute, not dilated at tip, 4-seeded. Seeds 
rounded ellipsoid. 
Hab. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga forests, Ridley. 
Alhed to a Javanese plant named 8S. grandis, Clarke in Herb. 
Kew, collected by Forbes. 
Strobilanthes leucopogon Ridley, n. sp. 
Shrubby branches angled glabrous. Leaves chartaceous, lan- 
ceolate acuminate narrowed to a blunt sub-truncate base, edge 
slightly undulate; nerves 7 pairs, elevate, transverse nervules few, 
sub-horizontal elevate beneath; 6 in. long, 2 in. wide; petiole 
under .1 in. long. Racemes in terminal axils, on branches .5 in. 
long with a pair of much reduced leaves at their bases 1.5 in. long, 
cyhndric. Bracts ovate-oblong blunt, .15 in. long, .08 in. wide 
covered with long white spreading hairs, corolla-lobes narrow 
linear spathulate, white hairy, shorter than sepals. Corolla .75 in. 
long pure blue, tube at base slender then funnel-shaped; lobes sub- 
equal, mouth .4 in. across. 
Hab. I\Wedah, Lankawi Islands, Dayong Bunting, Robinson 
6196, flowers pure blue. 
This is nearest to S. naweus, Craib. 
Barleria siamensis Craib, var. glabrescens Ridley, n. var. 
Plant much smaller in vegetative parts than the type, 12 in. 
tall, glabrescent. Leaves oblong acuminate rather abruptly, tip 
blunt, 3.5 in. long, 1.5 in. wide, glabrous above, roughly appressed. 
hairy on nerves and nervules beneath; petiole roughly hairy. 
Flowers 2 in. long. Bracts ovate hairy on nerves but much more 
glabrous than in type. 
Hab. Wedah, Lankawi Islands, Dayong Bunting, Robinson, 
Nov. 1916: 
The type of this, B. siamensis, Craib in Kew Bull., 1911, p. 
437, was collected at Doi Sutep at 2,300 to 2,500 feet. It attains 
the height of 5 feet, the leaves 8 in. long by 3 in. wide with a 
longer acuminate point and the whole plant is much more hairy. 
The Lankawi plant is dwarfer with smaller leaves, more glabrous. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
