NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 25 
The plant is undoubtedly closely allied to the Ceylon plant 
which is recorded as a montane plant, only differing in its being 
much more glabrous. This plant was in the flora of the British 
India referred to G. Pseudo-china, Dec. a plant with leaves all sub- 
radical. The Malayan Peninsula plant has the stem leafy, and its 
general appearance is that of a Sonchus. In the Materials it ap- 
pears to be described in combination with the next species under the 
name Gynura bicolor a Moluccan plant with much larger spreading 
heads and apparently absent from the Peninsula. ‘lhe roots are 
not tuberous as is said to be the case in G. pseudo-china, but fibrous, 
nor can I fit it to any of the species described from India, Malay 
islands or China. It only occurs in waste ground in open spaces, 
cleared by cultivation, and is presumably not a true native of the 
Peninsula but an introduced weed. 
Gynura rosea, D. sp. 
A herb two to three feet tall. Stem solid ribbed when dry. 
Leaves petiolate not auricled 12 inches long or much less, deeply 
lobed to the midrib or nearly so, lobes dentate decurrent on the 
midrib very variable in size and dentation, quite glabrous-green or 
often more or less purple. Capitula numerous on branches often 
3 inches long, or in a single cluster, whole capitulum { to $ inch 
long, occasionally when in fruit, cylindric. Involucre cylindric 
hardly swollen at the base green. Lower bracts linear acute. In- 
volucral bracts narrow linear olive green cuspidate minutely hairy, 
keeled with a scarious edge. Calyx pappus hairs very fine silky 
bright pink. Corolla pale rose nearly white, lobes tinted pink. 
Achene brown ribbed glabrous narrowed to the tip, pappus white. 
Singapore: Gardens, Pulau Ubin, Chan Chu Kang; Pahang: 
Telom; Selangor: Kwala Lumpur (Curtis 2349); Perak: Ipoh 
(Curtis 2995); Penang: Government Hill (Curtis 2995); Din- 
dings: Lumut (Ridley) ; Java: Sindang Laya (Hullett). 
A common weed in waste ground, I can find no name for this 
plant. King confuses it with the last species under the name. of 
Gynura bicolor, DeC. from which species it is entirely different. 
It is easily recognized by its deeply cut leaves and rose pink flowers. 
ERICACEAE. 
Rhododendron spathulatum, n. sp. 
A shrublet with slender branches dark brown and densely 
minutely pustular. Leaves coriaceous whorled 4 to 8 in a whorl 
obovate to spathulate apex rounded entire, base cuneate, nerves in- 
visible, back densely glandular pitted half an inch long, + inch wide, 
petiole rugose, $ inch long. Flowers terminal subtended by. two or 
three ovate ciliate coriaceous truncate bracts. Pedicels 4 inch long, 
Calyx entire flat annular. Corolla ? inch long tubular with short 
rounded lobes $ inch long, glandular dark red. Stamens included 
glabrous. Fruit conic grooved glandular, 4 inch long. 
R. A, Soc., No. 61, 1912. 
