308 MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON A COLLECTION OF 
triangularia acuta. Petala parva caduca orbieularia. Stamina brevius- 
сша. Ovarium obeonicum angulatum. 
Gunong Tahan, 5000-6000 ft. Small tree 20 feet high; flowers pale 
yellowish. (5454.) 
Belongs to the same group as Eugenia subdecussata, Duth., but is very 
distinct in its foliage. 
EUGENIA VIRIDESCENS, n. sp. 
Frutex. Folia coriacea sessilia giabra obovata, apicibus late rotundatis vix 
apieulatis, versus basin angustata, basibus subretusis, 22-8 poll. longa, 
13 poll. lata, nervis copiosis tenuibus approximatis, costa crassiuscula. 
Panicule quam folia breviores, terminales, 2 poll. longe, pedunculis 
brevibus ramulis validulis. Flores inter minores, 1 poll. longa. Calyx 
campanulatus, margine subintegro undulato. Petala 4 calyptram for- 
mantia rotundata. Stamina brevia, calycem paullo superantia. 
Gunong Tahan, 5000 ft. A bush; flowers pale green, leaves and young 
wood tinged with purple. (5338.) 
Allied to E. subdecussata, Duth., but differs in the form of the leaves, which 
narrow towards the base and end in a truncate retuse manner. They are 
less stiff than those of subdecussata, drying of a yellowish colour, and the 
margins curling back. The nervation is very fine and close and hardly 
distinguishable. 
MELASTOMACE 4. 
MELASTOMA MALABATHRICUM, Linn. Sp. Pl. 559. 
Gunong Tahan, 5000-5500 ft. Flower pinkish. (5514.) 
A very large-flowered form of this variable species, the petals being nearly 
as large as those of M. decenyidum, Roxb., but otherwise there is very 
little difference between this and typical M. malabathricum of the plains. 
Jistrib. India to China and North Australia. 
SONERILA HETEROSTEMONA, Vaud. in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, xv. (1851) 326. 
Kwala Teku, 800-1000 ft. (5538.) 
Distrib. Common in the woods of the plains. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra 
to Borneo. 
S. SUFFRUTICOSA, Stapf $ King, in Journ. As. Soe. Beng. lxix. п. (1900) 29. 
Gunong Tahan, 3300 ft. Flowers white or tinted with pink; leaves dull 
green with white hairs, beneath crimson with white hairs. (5215, 5347.) 
Distrib. Perak, Gunong Bubu (previously collected by Wray). 
№. PARADOXA, Naud. l. с. 321. 
Gunong Tahan, 3300 ft. Leaves bright green with metallic blue lights, 
beneath erimson, hairs on both sides crimson ; flowers pale pink. (5362.) 
The very hairy form common at higher elevations. 
Distrib, Penang. 
