14 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



bright yellow, linear clubbed. Stamens pale spathulate. 

 Style a little longer ; fruit not seen. 



Pulau Battam (C. B. Kloss, March 1906). 



Nearly allied to N. parviflora Ridl. but with extremely 

 narrow sepals and oblong petals nearly as long and much 

 broader. 



N. parviflora, n. sp. 



Stem decumbent rooting 6-8 inches long woody, 

 nude below, stipules dark red. Leaves lanceolate shortly 

 acuminate blunt, narrowed a little at the base toward 

 the short petiole somewhat coriaceous bidenticulate 

 3 inches long ^ inch wide. Flowers very small on slender 

 peduncles with several bracts. Peduncles 2 or 5 in 

 each axil in a tuft -£ inch long with three linear entire 

 bracts. Pedicel of flower very short. Flower sepals -J- 

 inch long ovate crenulate at the edge enlarging to ovate 

 denticulate in fruit nearly £ inch long and ribbed. 

 Petals much smaller lanceolate ovate, anthers oblong 

 ovate. Capsule much shorter than the sepals ovoid 

 oblong. Seeds reticulate. 



Sarawak : Banks at Puak (Ridley 12320.) 



Distinct in its small flowers, and numerous peduncles, 

 with several bracts, linear in the flowering stage but 

 becoming larger lanceolate dentate in the fruiting stage. 

 The largest bracts I have seen in the genus. 



JV. humilis, Hook fil. Trans. Linn, Soc. XXIII, p. 

 158. Labuan. (Lobb.) 



N. serrata, Korth Ned. Kruidk. Arch. I. p. 358 Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2 p. 118. This is described as four feet 

 tall, a native of Sumatra. 



I have never seen anything fitting the descriptions of 

 either of these two species. 



Gluta. 



There are a number of trees belonging to the Anacardiacece 

 commonly known to the Malays as Rengas, and all are well 



Jour. Straits Branch 



