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Calyx obconic, scurfy, lobes very obscure. Corolla in bud 

 ovoid blunt -05. Petals 5 ovate blunt veined. Stamens 5. 

 Styles combined in a truncate cone, with ^ve minute 

 stigmas. 



Perak : Changkat Mentri. Large climber, pink and 

 white. Sept. 1918 (Kloss 6516.) 



AUied to .S'. Scortechinii, Ridl., but the leaflets are 

 narrowed at the base, and there are no bracts to the umbels 

 which are fewer flowered and with longer pedicels. 



RUBIACEAE. 



Genus ALEISANTHIA, gen. nov. 



Shrubs. Leaves thin, coriaceous, pale or white beneath. 

 Stipules free large, lanceolate. Racemes sometimes 2-bran- 

 ched in upper axils ; many flowered. Flowers small, yellow 

 secund. Calyx subcylindric, limb campanulate, large with 

 5 short points. Corolla tube short, limb campanulate hairy 

 in the mouth, lobes short 5-6. Stamens 5-6 included in the 

 corolla, adnate to the limb. Style slender. Stigma cupulate 

 globose. Capsule hairy, pericarp splitting into two woody 

 carpels dehiscing on the inner face, seeds numerous minute 

 angular reticulate. 



Species 2. A. rupestre, Xanthophytum rupestre, Ridl. 

 Journ. Straits Branch Royal Asiat. Soc. No. 54, 1910, p. 44. 

 Selangor. A. sylvatica (postea). Kelantan. 



This genus is allied to Greenia from which it diflfers 

 in its axillary inflorescence, short cup-shaped corolla, 

 clubbed style, and stamens adnate to upper part of corolla 

 with very short filaments. 



26. Aleisanthia sylvatica, sp. nov. 



Shrub, 15 ft. tall hairy. Leaves lanceolate cuspidate 

 acuminate, long narrowed to base stiff, membranous above, 

 glabrous beneath white hairy nerves 25 pairs fine nervules 

 transverse parallel all a little elevated 7-5 in. long 2-25 in. 

 wide, petiole winged to base. Stipules oblong lanceolate 

 cuspidate and shortly keeled -4 in. long. Inflorescence 

 axillary peduncle -5 in. long with two racemes of distant 

 secund flowers 4 in. long. Bracts linear acuminate 

 setaceous -1 in. long very narrow. Pedicels very short 

 hardly any. Calyx tubes cylindric slightly narrowed at the 

 base, densely hairy, limb campanulate glabrous, large with 

 5 short acute points. Corolla yellow -25 in. long, tube 

 short cylindric, little longer than the calyx then dilated to 

 a limb, broadly cup-shaped nearly -25 in. long, all hairy 

 outside and in, lobes very short 5 or 6 ; mouth inside densely 

 white woolly. Stamens 5 or 6 glabrous adnate to upper 

 part of the tube and barely projecting at all ; filaments very 

 short. Anthers much longer, oblong linear with a short 

 rounded appendage at the top. Style glibrous, cylindric 

 from a conic persistent base, narrowed to the tip little longer 

 than the corolla. Stigma large, globose. Capsule fusiform 

 densely hairy with persistent calyx and style base, sepai-ating 



