100 NEW AND BARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Flowers blue. Sepals and petals .75 in. long. .2 in. wide 

 lanceolate acuminate, petals a little the larger. Stamens 6, 

 filaments rather slender, anthers linear, blunt .2 in. long. 

 Ovary conic passing into the rather stout style. Fruit I have 

 not seen ripe but it appears to be small and oblong. M. 

 vacinalis, Prest. var. Mohammed Haniff in Gardens Bulletin i. 

 1916, p. 354-355. 



Kedah; Jennn, common in rice fields, flowers blue 6-8 

 feet high (Mohammed An iff) 1208. 



In its great height and narrow hastate leaves and raceme 

 this differs from any of the few species of this genus. The 

 only plant at all resembling it is an nn described species from 

 Port Darwin in Australia collected by Air. C. E. F. Allen, 

 which may be named as follows: — 



M. australasica apparently a submersed plant about 18 inches 

 long. Leaves linear 18 in. lon<»". .15 inches wide. Raceme in 

 the axil of a pair of sheathing leaves, sheath 3 inches long. 

 .6 in. wide, blade linear acuminate, not petiolate nor hastate 

 1.5 in. long, .1 in. wide. Flowers scattered about 8, blue, 

 pedicels .1 in. long. Sepals and petals oblong lanceolate, 

 narrowed to the tip .4 in. long, .2 in. at base. Stamens short, 

 oblong .05 in. long, blunt at both ends, yellow. Capsule ellip- 

 soid, .5 in. long, .25 in. through., acuminate. Seed oblong, 

 truncate, black with 15 fine ribs running from top to base .05 

 in. long. 



Xoeth Australia; near Darwin 8. (C. E. F. Allen, 

 Xov. 1914.) 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 79. 



