18. NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 
Ophiorrhiza nervosa, n. sp. 
A stout herb with a hairy stem over a foot tall. Leaves ovate 
acuminate base broad abruptly cuneate to the petiole above glabrous 
scabrid hairy beneath, the midrib and nerves brown hairy 4-6 inches 
long 3 inches wide, nerves 15 pairs, branched at near the tip the 
branch inarching into the next nerve, petiole brown hairy half an 
inch long. Stipules setaceous. Peduncle 2 inches long hairy. 
Cyme branches 1$ inch long. Flowers shortly pedicelled. Calyx 
cupular ribbed lobes blunt, all hairy as long as the pedicel 7g inch. 
Corolla glabrous % inch long, lobes short oblong. 
__- Selangor: Semangkok Pass, (Pahang track) (Machado) May 
1893. 
A single specimen without fruit, appears quite distinct from 
its closely nerved rather thick leaves and rough scabrid surface 
befieath. The leaves are rather fleshy and dry black or nearly so. 
Mussaenda purpurascens, 0. sp. 
Sarmentose with dark colored branches thickly covered with 
purple hairs. Leaves elliptic acuminate broad based 4 inches long 
and 2 inches wide, subcoriaceous, above glabrescent except the mid- 
rib, densely purple hairy, beneath paler, nerves 10 pairs and midrib 
and secondary nerves densely purple hairy, petiole very short $ inch 
long. hairy... Compound cymes terminal on the braches very many 
flowered 2 inches across entirely hairy. Bracts linear. Flowers 
nearly sessile. Calyx cylindric urn-shaped with short acute points, 
hairy, enlarged lobe oblanceolate, much narrowed to the base on a 
hairy: stalk 14 inch long, apex rounded blade white hairy on the 
nerves, 24 inches long 1 inch wide. Corolla tube an inch long, 
# slender cylindric, upper quarter urn-shaped }¢ inch through, 
lobes short broadly ovate acute all hairy except the inner face of 
the lobes. Anthers shortly projecting slightly hairy. a, 
Selangor: Sempang Mines track, Semangkok Pass. Perhaps 
nearest to M. macrophylla, Wall. but with much longer corolla and 
with rounded bases to the leaves. | 
Urophyllum coriaceum, n. sp. 
Shrub, stems white and corky. Leaves in rather distant pairs 
lanceolate acuminate with a long point, narrowed slightly at the 
base or rounded coriaceous above smooth and glossy nerves invisible 
or depressed beneath cinnamon brown when dry, nerves 9-10 pairs - 
elevated, 5 inches long 1? inch wide, petiole black 3-? inch. 
Stipules caducous. Flowers few in short axillary cymes, with short 
peduncle and pedicels pubescent. Calyx cupular with a broad base 
margin truncate with only obscure traces of teeth. Corolla 4 inch, 
rather coriaceous, lobes 5, lanceolate acute, hooded, tube short. 
Anthers oblong surrounded by a tuft of long hairs. Fruit obovoid, 
crowned with the limb of the calyx tube. 
sa Mt. Ophir (Ridley 10105) at an altitude of about 
t. : 
Jour. Straits Branch 
