NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 67 



Petals glabrous 1.5 in. long, pale rose pink. Stamens half the 

 length of the petals, unequal, long ones 1.2 in. long. Style 

 rather stout 1 in. long, ovary with long bristle-like hairs on the 

 top. 



Kedah. Lankawi at Burau near Telavah Tujoh, April 

 (Ridley 15813). - 



Osbeckia perakensis, n. sp. 



Shrub about 8 feet tall much branched, twigs angled, 

 young parts, petioles, leaves above and the nerves beneath cover- 

 ed with stiff bristly hairs. Leaves elliptic to ovate blunt base, 

 round nerves 5 elevate beneath 1.25 in. long, 75 in. wide, 

 petiole .15 in. long. Flowers 3 to 5 in a terminal head sessile 

 in the terminal pair of leaves, in fruit a short pedicel .1 in. 

 long is developed. Calyx A in. long, ovoid eventually semi- 

 oblong, entirely covered with short, stiff bristles and star- 

 shaped whorls of bristles on a distinct pedicel, lobes lanceolate, 

 acuminate, fringed and keeled with simple bristles about 2 in. 

 long. Petals obovate 1 in. long, deep pink-rose. Stamens 10, 

 filaments slender, anthers .3 in. long, shortly acuminate. Style 

 long and stout. Capsule semi-oblong .4 in. long .3 in. through, 

 densely covered with stellate-hairy processes. 



Peeak, Taiping Hills on Gunong Hijau at 5,500 ft., first 

 obtained by Mrs. Bland, in 1905, later by J. W. Anderson. 



Perhaps nearest to 0. buxifolia, Thw. of Ceylon. 



OXYSPOREAE. 



The sorting out of the species of Oxysporeae of the Malay 

 Peninsula into genera, is,' it proves, a somewhat difficult task. I 

 attempted it in vol. 57 of the Journal of the Straits Branch of the 

 Poyal Asiatic Society, but in the further light of later discoveries 

 and investigations I find a modification is necessary. The follow- 

 ing are the genera as I now propose them : — 



Oxyspora, Woody, often tall shrubs with large stiff leaves and 

 big terminal panicles of fairly large flowers. The stamens in 

 the original species of De Candolle are 8 in number but of 

 two forms four long and purple and four alternating shorter 

 and yellow. In the Malay Peninsula we have only one species 

 which exactly agrees with this viz. 0. stellulata, King, a beauti- 

 ful tree-like shrub with great panicles of light rose pink flowers. 

 The other species which have the same habit and general struc- 

 ture have all the 8 stamens yellow and the two series almost 

 or quite as long and similar. The capsule' in the type species 

 and in some others is long and funnel-shaped, but in 0. micro- 

 car pa it is subglobose and small, and in 0. collina short and 

 cup-shaped. The following are our species : — 



R. A. Soc, No. 79. 



