NEW OK RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 9 



of the branches oblong cuspidate with a rounded 

 base, thinly coriaceous not scabrid, nerves eight pairs, 

 dark green shining above, margin obscurely crenate at the 

 tip, 3 to 6 inches long, 1^ to 3 inches wide, petiole J inch 

 long, hairy. Panicles short and few branched, bearing a 

 few flowers, pubescent. Bracts very small lanceolate. 

 Pedicels J inch long pubescent. Buds globose. Sepals 

 1 obovate rounded, light green j inch long, margins 

 pubescent, and inner face thickly covered with appressed 

 silky bail's. Petals small white spathulate f inch long, 

 y inch wide. Stamens shorter, very numerous White, 

 filaments flexuous. Carpels 4 pale green, styles rather 

 stout tapering, stigma capitate. Follicles polished J inch 

 long longer in proportion to their breadth than in T. 

 assa. 



Singapore: Garden Jungle (Ridley 6179), Changi; 

 Malacca: Merlimau; Selangor: near the Batu Caves 

 (Ridley 8249) ; Perak: Tapa (Wray 1266). 



This plant has been it appears confused with the 

 common Tetracera assa I). C, from which however it is 

 very distinct. T. assa is a sarmentose shrub, often form- 

 ing bushes in open country, or climbing in hedges but 

 at no great height, the leaves are much smaller than in 

 sylvestris; the flowers larger; the .sepals glabrous with- 

 in are often tinted with red at the top; the stamens 

 more numerous, longer and conspicuously tipped with 

 rose pink. Carpels usually 2. 

 T. sylvestris is a high climber in forests, with larger leaves, 

 of a lighter green and not denticulate as in T. assa. The 

 flowers are smaller and the sepals lined inside with silky 

 hairs, the stamens shorter fewer and white slightly yellow- 

 ish at the tip. The carpels are 4 in number. The 

 young leaves are of a beautiful light reddish pink. 



There are a number of species of Tetracera more or 

 less described by Miquel and Blume from the Malay 

 islands, Sumatra, Java, etc., but so incompletely in many 

 cases that it is not possible to identify what is meant, 

 and this may be one of them. 



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



