NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 5 



young parts of the plant branches, buds, petiole and mid- 

 rib and veins densely silky hairy, adult leaves glabrous. 

 Peduncles over a foot long silky hairy, flowers about 6 to 

 12. Sepals in flower hairy on the edge. Flowers 4 

 inches across or more petals bright yellow. Fruit when 

 expanded white. 



Borneo, Sarawak : in swamps at Kuching abundant. 

 Wormia suffruticosa, Griff. Notul. IV: 706. Ic. IV. t. 6496. 



A more stunted plant straggling up to ten feet tall 

 but commonly 4 to 6 feet, and not forming the dense 

 large thickets of W. subsessilis. The leaves resemble 

 those of the latter but the bases are broader and run less 

 into the winged petiole, and the margin is distinctly den- 

 tate. When young they are covered with close set white 

 woolly hairs on the midrib and nerves on the back, and 

 this hair persists on the petiole. The hair however dis- 

 appears to a large extent on the adult leaves. It covers 

 too the young parts of the stem. The flower spikes are 

 stouter than in W. subsessilis and the peduncles and 

 branches are also woolly. The flowers much resemble 

 those of the latter species but the sepals often are slightly 

 hairy on the edge, and the petals more obovatc and larger, 

 yellow. The stamens white. 



The plant is called " Simpoh Gajah." It is rarer in 

 the South of the Peninsula where W. subsessilis takes its 

 place. In Singapore it occurs in jungle swamp at Stag- 

 mount along the railway, and Jurong. In Johore, I have 

 seen it at Sedenah. In Malacca abundant at Bukit 

 Bruang (Holmberg '712). In Negri Sembilan Cantley's 

 collector sent it from Seremban, and Goodenough collect- 

 ed it (No. 10470) at Eawang. 



I have no evidence that it occurs outside the Pen- 

 insula. 

 IF. tomentella, Mart. Malesia, III. 159. A tree, about 40 feet 

 tall and 2 to 3 feet through with light brown bark:. 

 Branches pubescent. Leaves elliptic obtuse at both ends, 

 entire or shortly cuspidate 6-10 inches long, 5 inches 

 wide, above glabrous, nerves 13 pairs, transverse nerves 



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