1920] Ridley : New & Rare Malayan Plants. 131 



long, rather numerous -1 in. long, white. Sepals small 5. 

 Petals -1 in. long, oblong glabrous. Stamens 10 unequal 

 outer 5 as long as petals, inner 5 shorter. Ovary flask- 

 shaped, glabrous ; style rather stout. Fruit small, ovoid 

 beaked, yellow spotted brown. 



Damp woods in Kelantan at Chaning and in the Glam 

 wood near Kota Bahru. 



It seems most nearly allied to G. sapindoldef. Wall, 

 of Penang Hill, differing in larger flowers, glabrous pistil 

 and unequal stamens. The leaves are thickly black-dotted 

 on the back. 



6. Zanthoxylum hirtellum, sp. nov. 



Climber, armed with short decurved thorns, shortly 

 rough-hairy. Leaves 6 in. long. Leaflets 7-9, coriaceous, 

 elliptic, blunt cuspidate, edge crenulate or undulate, hairy 

 beneath on a rather slender thorny rachis, midrib thorny, 

 2-5-3 in. long, 1*25-1 -5 in. wide; nerves about 8 pairs; 

 petiolules -1 in. long or less. Panicles axillary 2-3 together, 

 slender 2 in. long, few flowered. Flowers -1 in, wide. 

 Fruit spikes 3 in. long, pubescent, with short branches. 

 Coccus oval pubescent wrinkled -25 in. long. Seed slightly 

 flattened smooth black shining nearly • 25 in , long. 



Singapore: Yo Chu Rang (Ridley 11291). Pahang : 

 Temerloh (Ridley). Bindings : (Curtis), Lumut (Ridley 

 10281). This plant is covered with short rough hairs. It 

 is near the Javanese Z. Horsfieldii^ Turcz. and Z. nitidiim 

 of China and Cochin-Cliina, but those are glabrous. 



GERANIACEAE. 



7. Connaropsis sericea, sp. nov. 



A tree. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong sharply 

 acuminate base round, nerves 8 pairs, slender but prominent 

 beneath subglaucous beneath, reticulations conspicuous 

 7-7-5 in. long, 3 in. wide ; petiole rather stout, -5 in. long. 

 Panicles raceme-like from the upper axils 12 in. long, 

 branches -25 in. long, puberulous. Sepals ovate, blunt silk 

 tomentose. Petals oblong, clawed, upper part deep red, 

 claw pale -1 in. long. Stamens shorter filaments very 

 slender ; anthers ovate witli wide cells. Styles short, free. 



Pahang : Pianggu, Endau River (Evans) . Flowers red. 

 Aug. 1917. 



A very distinct species with large leaves as big as those 

 of C. macrophylla but much thinner and subglaucous 

 beneath, the panicles long, slender puberulous with silky 

 tomentose sepals. 



RHAMNACEAE. 



Genus OREORHAMNUS, gen. nov. 



A shrub or tree ? erect. Leaves alternate lanceolate 

 dentate. Flowers small axillary hairy calyx campanulate 

 lobes 5 triangular. Petals minute spathulate bilobed 



