NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS 
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Perak: on Gunong Kerbau (Aniff). Flowered in the Botanic 
Gardens Singapore, July 1 LOT: 
Allied to D. pumila. 
A very distinct little plant with very pretty bell like flowers 
of a violet colour. The leaves are subpe ‘Itate at the base. 
Boeica nutans, n. sp. 
Stem less or nearly so. Leaves forming a rosette ovate apex 
rounded, and base also, margins crenulate, four inches or less Jong 
3 inches wide densely hairy above, with white curved hairs, paler 
beneath with suberect hairs, petiole 4 inch hairy. Flowers numer- 
ous solitary on erect pedicels, nodding. DPedicels 1-15 inch long 
hairy. Calyx lobes lanceolate acute densely hairy. Corolla 
quite regular + inch across violet blue, tube very short, 
lobes oblong ovate rounded at the tip all equal. Stamens 4, 
anthers elliptic sessile, erect, with a thick connective orange yellow 
polished outside, cells Iimear much narrower, on the inner face, 
introne pollen yellowish white, dehiscence the whole length, Ovary 
conic passing gradually into the short thick style, greenish white 
pubescent. Stigma orbicular, 
var. @, leaves green with white hairs. b, leaves deep olive 
with violet hatrs. 
Perak: on Gunong Kerbau (Mohammed Aniff). 
This pretty plant is certainly allied to Boeica brachyandra, 
Ridl. though it differs in the broad rounded leaves, one flowered 
pedicels, perfectly regular flowers and very different stamens. 
The pollen I found attacked by smal! nematode worms. 
Chirita uniflora, n. sp. 
Stems slender 15 inches long hairy. Leaves lanceolate or ob- 
lanceolate shortly acuminate acute base cuneate, nerves 5 pairs hairy 
with multicellular hairs 2 inches long and less than one inch wide, 
petiole half an inch long slender. Flowers solitary terminal on a 
slender hairy pedicel with 2 linear bracts z's inch long about half 
way down. Calyx lobes very narrowly linear acuminate hairy $ 
inch long white. Corolla tube very short hardly twice as long as 
the calyx, limb half an inch across, upper lobes short. linear oblong 
obtuse, midlobe broad rounded, all white with 3 violet streaks on a 
yellow patch on the lower Jip. Stamens 2 very short, anthers ovoid. 
Style hairy longer, stigma clongate flat. 
Selangor: Sempang Mines, one plant only in flower. 
Perhaps nearest to Ch. viola, Ridl., very different from any- 
thing I have seen elsewhere, and not much like any others of the 
genus. 
ACANTHACEAR. 
Justicia pectinella, n. sy. 
Here about 2 fect tall, stems rather stout internodes 2 inches 
long, nodes swollen, Leaves rather fleshy ovate or oblanceolate 
narrowed gradually to the base, acuminate, usually inaequilateral 
Jour. Straits Branch 
