22 NEW OK RABE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Kayea rosea, n. sp. 



A medium sized tree. Leaves in distant pairs 

 elliptic cuspidate apex acute base obtuse or shortly acu- 

 minate, coriaceous glabrous smooth above nerves 20-25 

 pairs raised beneath 8 inches long. 3 inches wide, cusp 

 J inch long, petiole thick \-\ inch long. Flowers rosy 

 white panicled, panicles 1 or 2 terminal. 3 inches long, 

 branches short, rachis thick corky rugose light brown. 

 Pedicels } inch long outer sepals orbicular thick { inch 

 long petals ovate ribbed, a little Longer. Stamens nu- 

 merous short, filaments short linear, anther cells curved. 

 Fruit not seen. 



Johore: By streams Gunong Panti (Dec. 1892) 

 Ridley. 



The only paniculate species yet recorded from the 

 Peninsula. 

 K. rivulorum, n. sp. 



Small straggling tree branches with Jong internodes. 

 Leaves opposite in pairs with 4 small ovate stipule like 

 leaves above them, in a cluster, main leaves lanceolate 

 long cuspidate base hardly narrowed 5 to G inches long 

 H to 2* inches across, nerves about 14 pairs depressed 

 above, elevated beneath leaf altogether glabrous and thin- 

 ly coriaceous, petiole j 1 ^ toi inch long: small leaves 

 ovate acuminate J inch long cordate sessile. Flowers 

 3 or solitary terminal almost sessile, surrounded at the 

 base with small ovate acuminate bract-like leaves ^ inch 

 long. Sepals ovate coriaceous I inch long. Petals 

 narrow linear oblong longer. Stamens very numerous 

 long slender, ovary conic acuminate, style shorter stigma 

 apparently entire. Fruit conic acuminate H inch long 

 -J inch through, with shorter persistent sepals. 



Malacca: Sungei Hudang, Aver Liar Bum (Good- 

 enough 1976) : Selangor on the stream at the Camphor 

 forest Rawang (Ridley 7349). It is known as K'luet. 



From K. can data, King this differs in the larger 

 leaves and shorten petiole, the almost sessile flowers, the 

 ovate bracts. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



