NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 17 



Flowers solitary axillary on slender peduncles J inch 

 long*, yellow. Sepals oblong lanceolate. Petals as long 

 as the sepals persistent. Stamens not numerous free 

 nearly to the base. Capsule elliptic oblong or ovoid ^ 

 inch long dehiscing into three valves. 



This little weed has been omitted from the Materials 

 for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula by Sir George King, 

 though it is by no means rare. It occurs in pepper fields 

 and rice fields in Singapore and Penang, and probably 

 elsewhere. It has obviously been introduced but has 

 thoroughly established itself. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah Eoad (Eidley 11273) also 

 Ohua Chu Kang, and Jurong; Penang: Penara Bukit 

 (Eidley) and Pulau Betong (Curtis 1946). 



Its distribution is from India to Japan. China, Java, 

 Australia and Xew Zealand. 



GTTTTIFERAE. 



Calophyllum ferrugineum, n. sp. 



A large tree. Buds, young leaves on the midrib 

 and edges, covered with a close ferruginous tomentum, 

 Branches 4 angled. Leaves elliptic oblong coriaceous 

 apex rounded truncate refuse, above shining, beneath 

 dull, nerves very fine parallel, glabrous except the mid- 

 rib beneath red tomentose, 3 inches long 1-J inch wide, 

 petiole ^ inch long. Eacemes axillary 2^ inch long, 

 peduncle 1 inch thickly red tomentose. Flowers about 

 8 in a raceme distant on slender pedicels J inch or less 

 long quite glabrous. Flowers J inch across. Sepals L, 

 inner suborbicular, outer more ovate smaller. Petals 0. 

 Stamens, anthers oblong. Pistil glabrous. Fruit obo- 

 void an inch long narrowed to the top glabrous. 



Singapore: Garden Jungle near Eogie (Ridley 

 10842, 4799). 



This is allied to 0. molle but differs in the com- 

 pletely glabrous flowers. 



R. A. Soc, No. 54, 1009. 



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