1920] Ridley : New & Rare Malayan Plants. 143 



Kelantan : Kuala Lebir. 



This might be P. multicapitata. King which I have not 

 seen except that stipules are very much larger and the fruits 

 very much smaller. 



Amaracarpus, Bl. 



This is a genus of bushes rarely trees, generally foetid 

 as in Saprosma and Mephitidia with small leaves rather 

 crowded, small tubular flowers axillary or terminal, one or 

 2 together. Fruit generally blue, pulpy one or two seeded, 

 crowned by the enlarged calyx lobes. Some of the species 

 have been put into Saprosma, and I think Neoschimpera, 

 Ilemsl., a Seychelles plant is the same genus. The species 

 known to me are Amaracarpus pubescens Bi., Java : A. 

 misrophijllus Miq., Celebes: A. saxicola Saprosma 

 saxicola, Ridl. (Journ. Straits Branch Royal Asiat. Soc. No. 

 61, 1912, p. 22), in limestone rocks at Kamuning, Perak : A. 

 nativitatis Bak. fil., Christmas island. 



41. Amaracarpus caudatus, sp. nov. 



Small glabrous foetid tree. Leaves ovate lanceolate 

 caudate mucronulate, base shortly cuneate and obscurely 

 unequal thin coriaceous, nerves fine 6-8 pairs, inarching, 

 nervules and reticulations nearly as prominent '2 in. long, 

 •5- -75 in. wide, petiole 05 in. long Stipules very small 

 with 1 point. Flowers in axillary pairs sessile. Calyx 

 small short, teeth acute 4 in. long. Corolla white cylindric 

 tubular -25 in. long, lobes short blunt, 4. Stamen 4. Ovary 

 3-celled. Fruit blue 1-2 seeded -25 in. long. Seeds plano- 

 convex. 



Perak ; Birch's Hill, Taiping Hills (Wray 670) . 



A small tree with foetid smell like carbon bisulphide. 

 Flowers white. Fruit blue. August 1885. 



42. Lasianthus Kurzii, Hook. fil. 



This was based on a plant collected by Wallich in 

 Burmah, No. 8310, 8311, of his collections. No. 8311 was 

 written up by him Penang ? and on the strength of this 

 has got into our Flora : I have not seen any specimen from 

 the Malay Peninsula. Allied to it, however, is a species 

 described by King and Gamble in the " Materials " for a 

 flora of the Malay Peninsula as Kurzii but they seem doubt- 

 ful about it. It is a native of Singapore : Garden jungle 

 (Ridley 140) and Pasir Panjang. It seems to me abundantly 

 distinct in its much more hairy habit, the branches are 

 appressed yellow-hairy, the inflorescence and leaves also 

 very hairy. The Burmese plant though not glabrous has 

 none of this long yellow appressed hair, and the leaves 

 appear to have been thinner in texture. 



43. For the Singapore plant as described by King and 



Gamble (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Ixxiii, 2 (1904), 



p. 119) I pro])ose the name of Lasianliius chryseus, 



Ridl. 



Allied to this plant is another I recently found at Tebong 



in Malacca, which differs in the more acuminate thin leaves, 



