NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 7 



pidate acute, margins serrate, nerves 24 pairs alternate 

 prominent beneath each ending in a marginal tooth, 

 midrib thick, reticulation nerves prominent, pubescent 

 on both surfaces, softly densely tomentose beneath, above 

 more glabrous, with a thick crest of hair along the mid- 

 rib, 7 to 10 inches long 3 to 4 wide, petiole 1-1^ inch long 

 widely sheathing nearly to apex as in W. suffruticosa, but 

 densely softly pubescent. Inflorescence from the upper 

 axils panicled, peduncle 3 inches long with two spreading 

 branches of the same length, all softly pubescent. Bracts 

 ovate acute J inch long pubescent. Buds globose very 

 shortly pedicelled. Calyx lobes 5 obovate obtuse rounded 

 pubescent on the back -J inch long ^ inch wide. Petals 

 thin obovate rounded, glabrous white ^ inch long. Sta- 

 mens numerous glabrous all about equal. Pistils silky 

 hairy. Fruit unknown. 



Johore: in wet woods at Tebing Tinggi (Ridley 

 11053). 



A very pretty small-flowered white species. The 

 fruit unknown. 



Dillex'ia. 



D. Scortechinii, King Mss. Wormia Scorteehinii, King 

 Materials 1. c. p. 366. 



There is I think no doubt but that this plant is a 

 DiUenia as King at first suggested and not a Wormia. 

 The fruit resembles that of D. meliosmaefolia, but is 

 green and not yellow. The plant is by no means rare in 

 the South of the Peninsula and is quite conspicuous in 

 the woods from its possessing large stilt roots in which 

 the whole tree appears to be supported. So striking is 

 this that visitors on seeing the tree in the Garden Jungle 

 have enquired if it was a mangrove tree. The whole tree 

 is about 60 feet tall with a smooth reddish bark. 

 It occurs in the Garden Jungle of Singapore. 



DiUenia meliosmaefolia, Hook. fil. Wormia meliosmaefolia, 

 King. 



R. A. Soc, No. 54, 1909. 



