1900'] G. King — Malenah for a Flora of the MaJaymi Peninsula. 
9. DissocH^Ti ANOMALA, King, n. sp. A creeper 15 to 20 feet 
long ; young branches slender, elightlj thickened at the nodes, at first 
sparsely rusty stellate -hairy, afterwai^ds glabiws and eub-glaucous. 
Leaves ovate-oblong, the base broadly rounded, the apex shortly, 
abruptly and bhmtly acumiDate, 5-nerved (the two lateral uenres 
fatrit) J upper surface glabrooa ; the lower sparsely stellate- hairy ou 
the midrib and nerves, otherwise glabrous ; leogth 3-5 to 6*5 in. ; 
breadth I 7 5 to 2"75 in.; petiole sparsely hispid, '2 in. long. Pamcles 
axillary and terminal, the former half as long and the latter twice as 
long as the loaves, stellate-pubescent especially at the thickened nodes ; 
the branches divaricate, trichotoraouHj lax, bracteate at the divisions ; 
tho bracts "3 in. long, oblong, bhint, involute, sfcellate-tomentose, their 
edges ciliate. Flowers "3 in. long, in cyraes of three, CahjX'iuhe shorter 
tliau the pedicel, narrowly campanulate, densely stellate-tomoiitose ; 
the moulb withont teeth, truucate, not everted. Fefals glabrous, ovate, 
acuminate, forming a pointed bud. Stamens 4, ecjua! and all perfect, 
Kubsessile, broad, blunt^ the lateral basal appendages filamentous. FniU 
broadly campanulate, crowned by the narrow calyx-limb, glabrous, '15 
io. in diam- 
Pekak I King's Collector 2258, 10468. 
Tills plant forma a collecting link between the genera Anpleefntm and Diaso- 
chxta na they are defluecl in this work. 16 agrees ia externals witli Anpfectmm 
palleM, tind lias the 4 stamene of tliat genus, but their anthers Imve the elongate 
baaal prooesses so well developed in Dissochieta and not at all represented in Anplec* 
tnim. 
10, DiesOCH^ETA ScOETECHlNll, Kiog, n. sp. Scandent ; young 
bmnehea slender, the nodes swollen and transversely ridged, thinly 
clothed with minute, pale, stellate hairs. Leaves ovate -lanceolate, slightly 
cordate at the broad base, the apex with a short, blunt point ; 5-nerved 
(the lateral pair small) ; upper stirface glabrous ; lower rusty in colour 
and beai iug sparse, while, stellate hairs longer than those on tho stem ; 
length 2" 5 to ?y7o in. ; breadth 1*5 to 2 in.; petiole densely rusty stellate- 
tomentose, "l in. long# Fanich solitary, narrow, terminal, shorter than 
tho leaves, densely rusty stellate- tomentose, the branches short and 
few-flowered, bearing many oblong, blunt or spathulate, pale, 3-nerved 
almoafc glabraus bracts longer than the flower-bnd, the lower ones macb 
larger. Flowers '3 in. long, their pedicels short, Cuhjx-tnhe narrowly 
campannlate, at fii*st densely but afterwards sparsely sfcellate-tomentose ; 
the moath truncate, without teeth, waved but not evei'ted, glabrous. 
Fetah 4, glabrous, orbicular-ovate, acnniinate, forming a pointed bud. 
Stamens 4, all equal and perfect, shorl, broadly ovate, the base with two 
long, erect, filiform appendages, the braad apex with a small, pale, 
