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lobes as long as the tube, linear-oblong, acuminate, cuspidate,
hairy on the back and tip, smooth within, red. Petals light
rose-colour, obovate, rounded, f inch long ;
stamens 5, similar
filaments white at the base, jointed above, upper part curved,
yellow with a 2-forked process at the base, apex voilet ; antliers
.voilet, acuminate. Style bright red.
On banks of streams, Padang.
This has the habit of M. sanguinea, but the scale-hairs on
the calyx are like those of M. Malabathricum.
49. Anerincleistus Robinsonii, Ridl. Journ. Straits
Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 57, p. 46 (1910). Common in the
woods along the Teku River at 4,600 feet altitude. Flowers
white. A shrub about 4 feet tall. Endemic.
50. A. PULCHRA (Oritrephes pulchra, Ridley, pp. cit.
p. 309). This plant was mixed with the preceding in the
collections made by Robinson, and distributed under No.
5,509. The character of the genus Oritrephes was the baccate
and apparently indehiscent fruit, not opening by valves at the
apex. The fruit in the specimen first examined was apparently
nearly ripe. Other specimens, however, now show that the
fruit at a later stage does dehisce by valves as in a true
Anerincleistus, and that the plant is allied to A. grandiflora,
Ridl., of the Semangkok Pass.
This section of the genus is, however, very distinct in
habit from the type as represented by A. hirsutus, Korth., and
its ally, and, if not generically separated, this group might be
distinguished as a section under the name of Oritrephes, the
description being amended.
This species, which was not in flower at the time of my
visit, is abundant on the open woods of the Padang. It
should be pointed out that the stems and branches are
distinctly quadrangular.
*5i. Anerincleistus fruticosus, Ridl. op. cit. p. 309.
Very common in the rocky streams of the Padang, varying in
size from a few inches tall, with one or two slender stems, to a
stout woody plant with a stem half an inch or an inch through
and over a foot tall, with red-brown bark bearing a cushionshaped
mass of branches. It grows in cracks in the rocks,
and must frequently be covered by the rushing torrents. The
calyx is red, and the buds, tinted with pink, expand in the
early morning to a large, white, pointed star, half an inch
across. The stamens are all similar and fertile.
This plant is certainly very unlike any other species
known to me, and in fruit at least resembles a Sonerila.
Endemic.
52. OXYSPORA HIRTA, n. Sp.
A tall shrub with few branches, base of stem bare, corky,
white, 5 to 6 feet tall, leafy only at the top. Leaves lanceolate
to ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous, rather stiff, apex acute, base
peltate, cordate, 8 inches long, 3 inches wide, nerves 3,
conspicuous, nervules horizontal, numerous, above glabrescent,