1920] Ridley : New & Rare Malayan Plants. 129 



ascended the only large hill in the neighbourhood which 

 was called simply Gunong and added a number of interest- 

 ing plants from this rather dry rocky place. Near the 

 village Tumpat was some open heath country, very sandy : 

 The flora was more distinctly Siamese, and I found here 

 the Anonaoeous shrub Rauwenhoffia, a typically Siamese 

 and Cambodian plant. The sandy shores at the mouth of 

 the Kelantan river were rather disappointing, the chief 

 •plants there being Casuarina, Spinifex, Dodonaea, and the 

 usual common sand-hill plants : but I found also a new 

 species of Waltheria which was very interesting as the 

 genus is mainly South American, and the only species in our 

 area (and it is scarce) is W. americana, believed to have 

 been accidentally introduced into Asia from South America. 



I was much indebted to Mr. and Mrs. Graeme-Anderson, 

 to Mr. Farrer and to Dr. Geale of Kuala Lebir for their 

 hospitality through which alone I was enabled to collect 

 the plants of this Uttle known district. 



CAPPARIDACEAE. 



1. Capparis pubiflora, var. perakensis. King. 



This plant is only known from specimens collected in 

 Perak by Scortechini. I have recently found it again in the 

 woods surrounding the Chaning Estate on the Kelantan 

 river. It seems to me sufficiently distinct from C. piibiflora 

 DC, a native of Timor and Celebes, of which, however, I 

 have only seen rather poor specimens. The bracts in this 

 species are broad, soft and woolly, and the flowers much 

 more woolly than in our species which has also short 

 subulate persistent bracts quite glabrous. The young shoots 

 and just opened leaves are thickly pubescent, and the whole 

 flower bud pubescent but not as densely as in the Timor 

 plant. I think it advisable to keep it as a separate specites 

 under the name of C. perakensis. 



2. Capparis paniculata, sp. nov. 



A long, much branched but slender thorny climber with 

 very short decm'ved thorns thickened at base and black at 

 tip • 1 in. long. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong base blunt 

 tip acute, nerves 5 pairs, 5-5 in .long, 2*5 in, wide, petiole 

 •15 in. long. Flowers in a lax terminal panicle 6 in. long, 

 peduncle -75 in. long, slender terminated by an umbel of 

 about 6 flowers ; pedicels -5 in. long, slender. Flowers 

 white -25 in. across. Sepals rounded, oblong, outer pair 

 boat-shaped, coriaceous, inner pair larger with a broad thin 

 margin. Petals oblong rounded connate at base. Stamens 

 numerous little longer than the petals ; white. Anthers 

 oblong, short. Gynophore little longer than tlie filaments, 

 ovary conic. 



Kelantan in dense forest in the neighbourhood of Chan- 

 ing Estate on the Kelantan River. Feb. 1917. 



Distrib. Borneo : Foot of Mt. Braang (Limestone), 

 Sarawak (Haviland 766). 



