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This pretty little species is remarkable for its very nar- 

 row coriaceous leaves which do not dry black as is almost in- 

 variable in white-tlowered species, and in small lax corymb 

 of very slender white flowers with narrow petals. It is 

 perhaps nearest to /. plumea, Ridl. 



37. Ixora pumila, sp. nov. 



Dwarf plant about 12 in. tall ; stem pubescent. Leaves 

 obovate to oblanceolate, tip blunt or subacute, base usually 

 narrowed, blunt, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 7 in. 

 long, 3 in. wide, nerves 15 pairs. Stipules ovate 

 blunt with a stout subulate process running from the 

 back 13 in. long. Corymb 3 in. wide on a pubes- 

 cent peduncle 3*5 in. long. Bracts narrow, linear acumi- 

 nate. Calyx lobes linear acuminate -12 in. long, much 

 longer than the ovary, pubescent. Corolla tube slender 1 in. 

 long, glabrous, lobes oblong, all white, limb -15 in. wide. 

 Stamens exsert, brown. 



Pahang : Gunong Senyum (Evans). 



Allied to /. clerodendron, Ridl., but a dwarf plant with 

 very narrow linear sepals. 



38. Timonius peduncularis, Wall., sub Guettarda pednn- 



cularis. Cat. 6220. 



This is the plant included under the name of T. 

 jambosella, Thw. o^ Ceylon by Hooker and King. It is 

 very distinct in its larger leaves hardly hairy on the midrib 

 and smaller, less hairy flowers. There are at least 2 species 

 of this genus in Ceylon included under T. jambosella. 



39. Prismatomeris Malayana, sp. nov. 



P. albidiflora. King and Gamble Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal Ixxiii, 3 (1904), p. 90 : not of Thwaites. 



The type of P. albidiflora to which this is referred by 

 King and Hooker is a totally different plant with a much 

 larger shorter corolla and large calyx. It is peculiar to 

 Ceylon, The Indian species also referred here seems to 

 me to be a difi'erent plant. There is a specimen from Ceylon 

 in Herb. Kew which somewhat resembles P. malayana but 

 the flowers are larger : it is not P. albidiflora, Thw. 



P. malayana occurs in Cambodia, Borneo and Sumatra 

 and all over the Malay Peninsula. 



40- Psychotria vulpina, sp. nov. 



Shrubby stems red hairy. Leaves membranous, elliptic 

 lanceolate acuminate, base narrowed, nerves 12 pairs ascend- 

 ing glabrous above densely hairy on the nerves and less so 

 on the surface, 5 in. long, 1 • 75 in. wide, petiole thickly hairy 

 •25 in. long. Stipules oblong, acuminate hairy outside to 

 base • 75 in. long, • 25 in. wide. Flowers not seen. Peduncle 

 in fruit 3 in. long, slender hairy, branches 1 in. long with 

 2 or 3 secondary branches. Fruits elliptic, glabrous shortly 

 stalked about 12 in. long. Seed 5, ridged outside, flat 

 inside. 



