16 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS, 
in its much more hairy leaves and stems, The leaves have also 
more nerves. 
Opliorrhiza tenue, n. sp. 
Weak herb 4-8 inches tall not or little branched, stem succulent 
slender hairy. Leaves equal or unequal, ovate thin base broad 
slightly cuneate subobtuse or acute, sparingly hairy on the upper 
surface or glabrous, glabrous except the nerves beneath, 2-4 inches 
long 1 to 14 inch wide, nerves 5 pairs or more fine, petiole slender 
half an inch long pubescent. Stipules reduced to a ridge. Cymes 
very small 4 inch long, few flowered, peduncle puberulous very 
short. Flowers } inch long. Bracts absent. Calyx dilated small 
with short lanceolate teeth, pubescent. Corolla white dilated up- 
wards, lobes nearly as long reflexed, tube with hair in the mouth. 
Stamens extruded filaments filiform extruded, anthers cylindric 
truncate. Capsule short linear oblong transversely edge indented 
4 inch across. 
Perak: Telor Pinang (No. 9767) and Tambun; Selangor: 
Dusun Tua (May 20). 
A very odd little species with very few small flowers, of a very 
different shape from most species, almost urn-shaped. ‘The stamens 
protruded further than any species I know of. 
Ophiorrhiza communis, n. sp. 
Herbaceous usually not or little branched or in strong plants 
more branched and occasionally creeping. Stem pubescent or hairy. 
Leaves ovate or more often lanceolate acuminate at both ends, 
equal, above dark beneath red or drying yellowish, glabrescent, with 
sprinkled hairs above, beneath the midrib and nerves mealy pubes- 
cent, and occasionally the whole surface beneath puberulous, 4-6 
inches long 1-14 inch wide, petiole 1 inch long. Stipules setaceous. 
Peduncle 1 inch long or more. Cyme branches slender often even- 
tually spreading over an inch long, flowers conspicuously secund, 
white, cyme branches and flowers glabrous or somewhat pubescent. 
Pedicel short as long as the calyx. Calyx ovoid, lobes short blunt. 
Corolla tubular, lobes short. Stamens not exsert. Fruit trans- 
versely oblong 4 inch across short, upper margin straight, cells 
somewhat swollen usually puberulous. 
Malacca: Bukit Tampin (Goodenough 1860); Selangor: Ra- 
wang (7404), Ginting Bidai 7402, 7407, (var. with pink flowers) ; 
Petaling: Sempang (12075), Semangkok Pass (8580), Klang Gates 
(13413) ; Sungei Ujong: Bukit Sulu (Cantley) ; Dindings: Pang- 
kor (8845) ; Perak: Larut Hills to the top; Telok Pimang (9765) ; 
Pahang: Telom (13642), Kwala Lipis (Machado 11577) ; Kedah: 
Yan; Borneo: Kuching on Matang. 
Common all over the woods of the Peninsula except Singapore 
and Johore where it is replaced by the allied O. singapurensis, from 
which it is distinguished readily by the much less hairy leaves. It 
is more inclined to creep than that species. : 
Jour. Straits Branch 
