NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 5 
muticous. Capsule pale subglobose not narrowed at the base 
smooth, lobes subovate, valves broad oblong truncate not much 
longer, $ inch long and as wide, pedicels elongate to half an inch. 
Johore: Gunong Janeng (Kelsall) “ Kakapullum.” Nearest 
to Ph. Griffithu with very different foliage. 
The flowers are unfortunately rather young. 
Sonerila nodosa, D.sp. 
Stem slender flesh red swollen at the nodes, sprinkled with 
glandular hairs over 3 inches long. Leaves unequal, or nearly 
equal lanceolate long acuminate, margins undulate subdentate with 
minute thorn-like processes, base rounded unequal, nerves 3 from 
base, secondary nerves from the midrib fine, at a sharp angle 
texture thin fleshy sprinkled with a few coarse hairs on the upper 
surface, glabrous on the lower surface, with many raphides bundles, 
blade 34 or less long by # inch wide, petiole 1 inch long, small 
leaves 4-4 inch long petiole as long. Flowers small white in short 
cymes on the upper axils on pedicels { inch long lengthening in 
fruit. Calyx 3'5 inch long lobes short acute. Fruit campanulate 
oblong truncate as broad as long, not ribbed or pustular, minutely 
punctate 4 inch long, base broad. 
Perak: Bujong Malacca (Ridley, Sept. 1898). 
Not much resembling any other of our species; peculiar for its 
nodose stem. 
Sonerila Gimletter, n. sp. 
Stem woody 6 inches tall with fibrous roots, 4 inch through 
smooth. Leaves only at the top, unequal, ovate lanceolate acumin- 
ate at both ends sessile, or rather petiole winged to base glabrous 
except the petiole covered with long red hairs and midrib also hairy, 
nerves 5 from the base, with about 12 lateral ones 6-8 inches long, 
3 inches wide, shorter leaves 4 inches long by 2 wide. Cymes scor- 
poid many flowered, peduncle hairy, 14 to 2 inches long. Flowers 
not seen. Fruit emule smooth neither ribbed or warty, or with 
faint traces of warts 4 inch long, stalk as long ribbed. 
Kelantan: Kwala Lebir (Dr. Gimlette). Leaves used as a 
poultice for boils. 
Remarkable for its woody stem and large leaves. Allied to S. 
biserialis, Cogn. 
Sonerila calophylla, n. sp. 
Rhizome tuberous, stem succulent simple or branched 2-8 inches 
tall glabrous bare below. Leaves crowded in a false rosette atthe 
top, fleshy green or brown marbled with white, glabrous oblong or 
ovate oblong obtuse base rounded, nerves 4 pairs decurrent on the 
midrib, secondary nerves few fine, margin with distant short thorn- 
like processes, 2-3 inches long, 1 inch or less wide, petiole half an 
inch long. Flowers 3 or 4 crowded in a cyme on a peduncle 1 to 
® inches long, erect. Calyx subcylindric, with very short acute 
R. A. Sec., No. 61, 1912. 
