10 NEW OR RAKE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Tetracera fagifolia, Bl. Bijdr. 4. 



This species has not been recorded in the Material.-, 

 as a native of our region. It occurs in the Garden 

 Jungle and at Selitar in Singapore (No. 6381 and 6381a 

 of my collections) and is too a native of Java. It is 

 easily recognized by its lanceolate leathery leaves, stiff 

 and polished about 3-5 inches long and 2 inches wide 

 quite glabrous with 8 pairs of prominent ribs. The 

 panicle of flowers is lax. about 6 inches long silky hairy. 

 The sepals silky hairy on the edge and in the middle on 

 the inner side. The flowers resemble those of T. eury- 

 andra, Vahl. 



It does not seem to be very common or more pro- 

 bably seldom flowers as is so often the case witli the 

 Tetraceras. 



Magxoliaceae. 



Talauma elegans, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV. 70. Aro« 

 madendron Regans, Bl. Bijdr. 8. 



This fine tree is not recorded for the Malay Penin- 

 sula in the Materials. It is a straight tall tree GO to 80 

 feet tall, with coriaceous finely reticulated dark green 

 leaves 3 or 4 inches long and 1 to H inches wide elliptic 

 and shortly acuminate, the petiole j J o to J inch long. The 

 flowers of the usual magnolia type are a little over two 

 inches long, the petals narrow linear acuminate, white 

 and fragrant. The sepals lanceolate and glabrous. The 

 stamens very slender and hardly half as long as the 

 petals. The fruit is about 3 inches long obovoid nar- 

 rowed to the base and smooth green with light pink seeds. 



It grows in the Garden Jungle ne^i* the Fernery 

 (No. 4429, and 5592 of my collection) and I have it also 

 from Machap on the Selandor road, Malacca collected 

 by Perry (No. 511), Curtis obtained it too on Govern- 

 ment Hill, Penang (No. 3012). Deny gives the name 

 " Kayu Arang ,? possibly by some error as this is usually 

 applied to Ebony, and Curtis " Chempaka hutan." 



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