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2-3 in. long - . Capitulum .75-1 in. across. Bracts ovate or- 

 bicular rounded truncate .4 in. long and as wide. Calyx trun- 

 cate. Corolla honey yellow, tube cylindric curved. Fruit ob- 

 long .5 in. lonsr when dry, light blue. 



Malacca, Mount Ophir (all collectors). Joiioe, Gunong 

 Pantai and Xegbi Sembilax, Gunong T ampin, a form with 

 broader leaves. 



Cephaelis Ridleyi, King and Gamble. This seems to have been 

 based on a plant collected by me at Bukit Kutu in Selangor, 

 a remarkably stout species about 2 feet tall, the stem thick 

 and fleshy, with the leaves all deeply tinted with purple. The 

 flowers also purple. To this I would add a plant collected at 

 Gunong Lias by Yapp at an altitude of 3,500 feet. But the 

 plants collected in Singapore and Curtis's plant from Penang 

 appear to me to be totally different though King and Gamble 

 call these also C. Ridleyi. 



I would separate them under the name of 

 C. singapurensis. Whole plant about 2 feet tall, stem moder- 

 ately slender. Leaves elongate lanceolate acuminate long — 

 narrowed to base nerves 16 pairs, 9 in. long, 2.5 in. wide, 

 petiole 1 in. long. Stipules connate into a tube with 2 blunt 

 points .15 in. long. Peduncle 1-2.5 in. long. Head about 1 

 in. across. Bracts outer pair broad, ovate subacute or blunt, 

 inner ones oblong. Calyx very short, truncate. Corolla 1.25 

 in. long, tube thick, lobes ovate obtuse, all honey yellow. Fruit 

 light blue. 



In damp woods. Singapobe; Bajau. Joiioe ; Gunong 

 Pulai and Gunong Pantai. 



Cephaelis elliptica, n. sp. C. cuneata var. elliptica, Eidl. 



Shrubby, stem rather slender. Leaves membranous, not 

 flesh}-, elliptic apex caudate, acuminate base narrowed decur- 

 rent on petiole, nerves 11 pairs 4.5 in. long, 1.5 in. wide. 

 Peduncle 1.5-2 in. long, terminal and axillary. Flowers not 

 seen. Fruit oblong, rounded at tip and base with a strong rib 

 on each side .4 in. long, .3 in. Avide (dry). 



Pattang, Telom (Ridley 13636). 



I have not seen flowers of this plant but the foliage in 

 texture and shape is very different from any other species and 

 the fruit is much less pulpy. 



Cephaelis triceps, n. sp. 



About a foot or more tall. Leaves somewhat or very un- 

 equal in size, rather fleshy, membranous, elliptic, shortly blunt 

 acuminate, base shortly cuneate, nerves about 12 pairs, slightly 

 prominent beneath, 5.5 to 6 in. long, 2.1 in. wide, petiole not 



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