NEW AND RAKE MALAYAN PLANTS. 91 



I is a common weed in clearings, in Singapore, Johor, 

 Pahang, Malacca, Selangor, Perak:, Dikdings and Penang 

 and also occurs in Siam, Java and the Philippines at Benguet 

 (Loher 3615). 



It is known as Sari Bulan and Sumbong Jantan. 

 Erigeron oreophilum, n. sp. 



A simple unbranched leafy herb. 6-8 inches tall softly 

 pubescent. Leaves oblong lanceolate entire obtuse (the upper 

 ones smaller and narrower and acute and narrowed to the 

 base of the petiole A in. long .12 in wide or less, all white, 

 hairy. Heads racemose or with 1 or 2 short branches at the 

 base of the raceme .1 in. long in flower .20 in. across in fruit, 

 on short slender peduncles .12 in. long. The involucral bracts 

 very narrow linear acuminate pubescent or glabrous, not im- 

 bricating. Outer florets with a minute oblong ligule. Achene 

 unripe glabrous pappus white. 



Perak, Gunong Kerbau at 6,600 ft. (Robinson). 



Referred by me formerly to E. linifolius, but the foliage 

 will not suit that plant as it seems to be always entire, and 

 I do not think it can be a mountain form of that. It does not 

 appear to be closely allied to any other species. 



VACCINIACEAE. 



Vaccinium ardisiflora, Ridl. I find that V. ardisiflora is a name 

 already occupied and substitute T 7 . ardisiflora for it. * 



Vaccinium loranthifolium, n. sp. 



A stunted tree with thick black branches. Leaves stiff 

 coriaceous obovate rounded narrowed to petiole, gland dotted 

 beneath, nerves obscure 3 pairs rising from the midrib 2-2.75 

 in. long, 1-1.35 in. wide, petiole thick .2 in. long. 



Racemes thick subterminal 2.5 in. long, rachis red. 

 Flowers close-set, on very short curved pedicels. Bracts 

 (caducous) oblong obtuse broad .2 in. long. Calyx cupular 

 pubescent with broad ovate lobes. Corolla fleshy globose ovoid 

 glabrous outside, hairy within. Stamens 10 short, filaments 

 very short, hairy ? anthers short, tubes nearly as long as anther 

 cylindric, no dorsal or basal appendage. Style little longer 

 than the stamens, thick, glabrous. Fruit flesrry, subglobose 

 terminated by the broad calyx lobes .15 in. long, on short thick 

 pedicel .1 in. long. 



Perak; Gunong Kerbau 4,500 ft. (Robinson) at 7,000 ft. 

 (Aniff). 



Allied to V. viscifolium, King and Gamble but with much 

 larger fruit with large sepals, and a larger ovoid fleshy corolla. 



R. A. Soc, No. 79. 



