1920] Ridley : New & Rare Malayan Plants. 133 



at tip, keel short, broad. Stamens slender. Style plumed on 

 lower edge at tip. Ovary glabrous. Pod narrow liniear 

 glabrous 2 in. long 1 in. wide. 



Kelantan : Bank of River Lebir near Chaning. 



Distrib. Timor Laut (Riedel in Herb. Kew) . 



One of the plants commonly confused with V. luteola, 

 Benth., a South American plant. The fruit is described 

 from the Timor Laut plant which is I think the same species, 

 the pod however, is not ripe. 



11. Crudia Evansii, sp. nov. 



Glimbhng plant, glabrous. Leaves 6 in. long Including 

 petiole. Leaflets 3-4, thin, coriaceous elliptic shortly acumi- 

 nate 6-nerved ; nervules nearly as conspicuous, reticulations 

 distinct, 4 in. long, 2 in. wide, petiolules '2 in. long. 

 Racemes dense, scurfy velvety red, 2 in. long, rachis thick. 

 Flowers crowded, shortly pedicelled. Sepals ovate, blunt 

 •1 in. long. Stamens 10, glabrous. Pistal conic, densely 

 hairy. 



Pahang : Gunong Senyum (Evans) . " Climbing plant 

 anthers yellow, petals inconspicuous. Sepals brownish." 

 January 1917. 



MYRTACEAE. 



12. Eugenia jasminifolia, sp. nov. 



Small tree. Leaves thin, coriaceous ovate, blunt 

 caudate base cuneate nerves numerous parallel but invisible 

 above and always so beneath, 1 in. long -25 in. wide ; 

 petiole -1 in. long. Flowers small in sessile terminal and 

 axillary clusters about 5. Bracts broad, oblong papery. 

 Calyx oblong cylindric sUghtly narrowed at the base -12 in. 

 long ; lobes rounded broad persistent. Petals free, rounded. 

 Stamens very short. 



Negri Sembilan : Tampin Hill (nat. coll. F.M.S. Mus.). 



AlUed to E. tecta. King, in its small sessile heads but 

 the leaves are quite different and the flowers very small. 



13. Eugenia laxiuscula, sp. nov. 



Bark of twigs red. Leaves narrow, oblong, lanceolate 

 acuminate base cuneate, nerves numerous subparallel faint 

 6-25 in. long, 1*9 in. wide petiole "25 in. long. Panicles 

 wide, spreading, 6 in. long, 4 in. wide, lax. Calyx lobes 

 distinct, short rounded semielliptic, tube goblet-shaped with 

 a rather long pseudo-stalk -2 in. long. Corolla cauyptrate. 

 Stamens very numerous • 4 in. long. 



Pulau Butang, Butang Ids, West of Langkawi Ids. 

 (Curtis 975). 



King refers this number to E. inophylla, Roxb., from 

 which it differs in its longer, narrower leaves with fewer 

 nerves, its red bark wide panicle, longer calyx-tube and 

 distinct lobes (quite absent in inophylla) and its stamens 



