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an equal number of stamens as in the male. Fruit half an 

 inch long, when ripe ellipsoid, narrowed at the base, and 

 crowned at the top by the triangular perianth-lobes, with the 

 stamens, at first red, eventually black. Seed indistinctly 

 5-ribbed. 



Common on the Padang, climbing on bushes, also on 

 Skeat's ridge. Also on Kluang Terbang (Barnes) and at the 

 Sempana Mines, Selangor. 



The absence of any tube to the male flowers and the 

 rudimentar}^ ovary are very distinctive. 



Since writing the description of this Gamble has described 

 it in the Kew Bulletin, and " Materials for a Flora of the 

 Malay Peninsula," Journ. Roy. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, ii. igi2, p. 

 271, under the name of H . Ridleyi. 



*i53. Henslowia Lobbiana, A.DC. I did not see this 

 on the Padang. Mr. Robinson collected, however, specimens 

 which, I believe, belong to this species. 



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TH YM RLE AC E^. 

 WiKSTRCEMiA Candolleana, Meisii., var. With 



more ovate, cuspidate, coriaceous leaves and flowers on very 

 short racemes. A somewhat similar, but less xerophytic, 

 form occurs in Gunong Hijati of the Taiping hills. It may be 

 the W. androsoemifolia, Lesch., of Java. 



It was an abundant shrub on the Padang, kno\\n to the 

 Malays as "chandan," and its bast was invaluable for tying. 

 Flowers yellowish green. 



PROTEACEiE. 



155. Helicia suffruticosa, n. sp. 

 A shrub or dwarf treelet with pale bark. Leaves 



lanceolate-acuminate, slightly narrowed at the base and 

 rounded, margins with a few short tefeth, coriaceous, glabrous, 

 drying light green, nerves 7 pairs, inconspicuous abo\ e, 

 prominent beneath, slender, inarching within the margin, 

 ft 7 inches long, 3 inches wide; petiole thick, i to J inch long, 

 '^ geniculate at the apex. Raceme from below the leaves, 

 slender, 6 inches long. Flowers solitary or in pairs, on a short 

 pedicel, \ inch long, white, about 50. Bracts lanceolate- 

 acuminate, minute. Sepals lanceolate, ^ inch long; base 

 linear, narrow, i inch long ; stamens 4, elliptic, connective 

 prolonged into a short blunt point. Style i inch long. Bracts 

 lanceolate-acute, j-\j inch long. 



Gunong Tahan, Teku woods. In dense forest by the 

 stream. The smallest species of Helicia I have seen. Plants 

 under 2 feet tall seemed to be adult. 



LAURINE^. 



156. Cinnamomum MOLLissiMUM, //oo^/i/. Teku woods. 

 Gunong Tahan. 



Distribution. Penang and Perak. 



October, 1915. 7 



