90 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



winged .5 in. long. Stipules coriaceous connate with short 

 ovate points .25 in. long. Peduncle 1.75 in. bearing 3 pedun- 

 culate heads, peduncles thick .5 in. long. Involucral bracts 

 coriaceous connate, boat-shaped, acuminate, involucre 1 in. 

 across. Bracts of heads broad, oblong .5 in. Heads .5 in. 

 across of few flowers. Colyx .2 in. long, limb cup-shaped, 

 entire. Buds subglobose. Corolla tube cylindric .25 in. long. 



Selangor; Sempang mines, Semangkok about 3,000 ft. 

 (Ridley). 



This is very distinct from any other of our species in the 

 3 peduncled heads on a common peduncle. 



Cephaelis elongata, n. sp. 



Stem woody 14 in. tall, rather slender, internodes 1.5 in. 

 long. . Leaves narrow lanceolate, long, acuminate, base narrow- 

 ed, slightly fleshy, membranous, nerves faint 8 pairs, 4-5 in. 

 long, 1 in. wide, petiole winged .1 in. long. Stipules ovate 

 lanceolate, blunt, connate .1 in. Peduncle .4 in. long. Heads 

 .25 in. across of 5 or 6 flowers and 2 lanceolate bracts .25 in. 

 long. Moral bracts ovate, boat-shaped, blunt, .12 in. long. 

 Flowers nearly sessile. Calyx cup-shaped, entire, .05 in. long. 

 Corolla tube cylindric, dilate at mouth .3 in. long, lobes ovate 

 lanceolate acute .1 in. long. Fruit oblong .2 in. long 4-ridged 

 crowned with the calyx. 



Selangor, Semangkok Pass. {Ridley). 



COMPOSITAE. 



Erigeron sumatrense, Eetz. Obs. v. p. 28. The plant formerly 

 identified for me at Kew as Conyza semipinnatifida. Wall. 

 (Journ. Boy. As. Soc. xlix, p. 18). I find on comparison does 

 not belong to that species, but is an Erigeron allied to E. lini- 

 folius, Willd. a plant of unknown origin, to which it has also 

 been referred, but it more distinctly fits the description of 

 E. sumatrense, Eetz., only known from his description how- 

 ever. It is a hairy weed from 3-6 feet tall. Leaves mem- 

 branous lanceolate strongly sparsely toothed, gradually narrow- 

 ed to the base of the petiole 3.5 in. long and .5 in. across. 

 The upper leaves among the inflorescence-branches are linear 

 1 in. long .05 in. wide and entire. All are coarsely white; 

 hairy. The terminal panicle is large, much branched and 

 hairy. Heads in flower .1 in. long, yellowish on pedicels .25 

 in. long in fruit they are .4 in. across. The involucral bracts 

 very narrow, hairy and shorter than the white pappus. The 

 outer flowers are very narrow, 2 lipped with 2 minute sta- 

 minodes quite sterile. The inner (disk) flowers tubular, whit- 

 ish green, lobes acute, short sepaline hairs as long as the tube, 

 anthers projecting brown-yellow turning brown after fall of 

 pollen. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



