NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 11 



AN02s T ACEAE. 



Polyalthia Curtisii, n. sp. 



Tree 30 to 40 feet tall, branches dark-colored. 

 Leaves elliptic lanceolate suba eliminate blunt, base round- 

 ed thinly coriaceous glabrous, nerves hardly elevated 7 

 pairs, reticulations fine conspicuous 3-4 inches long, 1-| 

 inch wide, petiole \ inch long. Young leaves and shoots 

 red pubescent. Cyme compound from the branches about 

 ] inch long golden pubescent with few branches. Bracts 

 small ovate semiamplexicaul, golden hairy outside. 

 Pedicel half an inch long. Sepals ovate hairy hj inch 

 long. Outer petals linear oblong 1J inch long, j inch 

 wide, hairy outside, inner ones much shorter spathulate 

 obovate obtuse. Stamens numerous, small cells parallel, 

 connective large rounded curved over. 



Penang: Telok Bahang (Curtis 3644). 



In some respects this resembles P. sclerophylla, 

 King, but the flowers are borne on the branches in short 

 panicles, not on clusters in the stem. 

 Polyalthia angustissima, n. sd. 



Slender tree about 20 feet tall with dark bark, and 

 fine twigs. Leaves lanceolate acuminate glabrous shining 

 little over 3 inches long 1 inch across, nerves not very con- 

 spicuous beneath 6 pairs, (young leaves rose pink), 

 petiole | inch long black pubescent. Flowers shortly 

 pedicelled, pendulous beneath the branches, not on the 

 stem, pedicel ^ inch long, golden pubescent. Sepals 3 

 very small lanceolate acuminate pi i ncn l° n g> golden 

 hairy. Petals 6-7, bases gibbous above linear acuminate 

 sparingly hairy with long appressed hairs, cherry pink 

 at base gradually getting lighter to yellowish at the tip, 

 2J inch long, hardly o\ i ncn wide, sides involute, not 

 keeled. Stamens quadrate, connective dilated incurved, 

 in 3 rows white. Pistils 7-12 hairy, styles conic. Fruit 

 carpels few, 2 or 3 globose as large as a red currant, 

 minutely apiculate quite glabrous § inch long, bright red 

 pedicels T l - inch long, pericarp pulpy. Seed 1, rounded 

 oblong smooth light brown. 



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



