96 NEW AND RAKE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Flowers cream-color, nearly sessile. Bracts ovate dense (red- 

 dish) pubescent. Calyx -tube narrow, eampanulate. lobes ovate 

 lanceolate, .1 in. long-. Corolla urceolate or obovoid with 

 rather long unequally bilobed lobes, lobules linear obtuse all 

 glabrous, anthers acuminate. Ovary densely villous with low 

 lobed saucer-like disc. Style short. Follicles unripe linear 

 acute terete, 6 in. long. 



Perak; Pielau Tujor (Wray £604) overhanging Bernam 

 River (Kun&tler 8859). 



This certain! v lias the habit of the Javanese N. polyantha 

 Miq., but the leaves are broader, and more coriaceous, the in- 

 florescence denser; the calyx very much larger with broader 

 lobes and the petals bilobed not entire. 



Micrechites brachypetala, n. sp. 



A rather slender woody climber. Leaves thinly coria- 

 ceous obovate bluntly short acuminate, base shortly narrowed. 

 nerves 7-8 pairs, reticulations fine, close. 2.5 in. long, 1.5 in. 

 wide: petiole .25 in. Panicles terminal 2.5 in. long subgla- 

 brous, the branches in pairs 1 in. long, branchlets .5 in. long- 

 again branched lax. final branches .1-.2 in. long witli several 

 pairs of persistent bracts whence flowers have fallen Calyx 

 cup-shaped with very short teeth slightly pubescent. Corolla 

 eylindrie urceolate. lobes very short, tooth-like, entire straight. 



Pkxaxo: Penara Bukit (Curtis 850). 



Micrechites tenuifolia, n. sp. 



Straggling climber. Leaves rather thin almost mem- 

 branous broadly elliptic, lanceolate, narrowed to both ends, tip 

 blunt, base subacute, nerves very line about 1<> pairs. 2 in. long. 

 1.5 in. wide, petiole slender .3 in. long. Cymes small about 

 1 inch long, axillary and by fall of the leaves in a lax simple 

 panicle of short distant branches. 4-6 in. long, branches pube- 

 rulous. Bracts ovate, acute persistent as in preceding. Calyx 

 lobes ovate-round puberulous. Corolla glabrous .05 in. long, 

 tube eylindrie, lobes short oblong linear, entire. 



Malacca: (Ma in gay). Selaxgor. Ginting. Bidai (Rid- 

 ley 7142) and Ivwala Lumpur (Ridley 1857, 1905). 



Like the last but calyx lobes rounded, corolla lobes much 

 larger, leaves smaller thin. 



ASCLEPIADACEAE. 



Dischidia fruticulosa, n. sp. 



. Epiphytic shrub. Stem stout, woody over .12 in. through 

 base, swollen, branches slender, herbaceous, light green. 

 Leaves when dry rather thin texture elliptic obtuse, narrowed 

 to the base slightly, nerves invisible 2-3 in. long, .75-1.10 in. 

 wide, petiole .1 in. long. Racemes sessile solitary or in pairs 



Jour. Straits Branelj 



