30 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



beneath densely rufous tomentose with hairs stellately 

 arranged, nerves about 8 pairs, 4 inches long. 2^ inches 

 wide, petiole densely rufous hairy about an inch long. 

 Panicles 6 inches or more long rufous-tomentosc, with 

 numerous short branches half an inch or less long. 

 Flowers very small densely tomentose, T ^ inch Jong. 

 Calyx campanulate cleft half way into 5 short ovate acute 

 lobes hairy on both surfaces. Male androecium small 

 the length of the tube, filaments slender nearly as long as 

 the tube, anthers 8 in a globose mass. Females not 

 known. Carpels 4 ovate shortly beaked, when expanded 

 outside densely tomentose, inside densely hairy. 2 inches 

 long and 1J inch broad. Seeds 4 black. 



Penang: Waterfall (Curtis 2UV2) ; Lankawi : Teru- 

 tau island (Curtis) fruits. 



I take this to be the very imperfectly known and 

 described pubexcens. Mast., based on a specimen collected 

 by Maingay in " Malacca " but probably in Penang. The 

 fruiting specimens from Terutau seem to me to be iden- 

 tical as far as I can see with the Penang one which is 

 in flower. 

 Sierculia hispidissima. n. sp. 



Shoots covered thickly with rough red hairs. Leaves 

 crowded at the ends of the branches elliptic or oblong 

 entire with a broad truncate base, shortly cordate, blade 

 dilated a little in the middle, and slightly narrowed to the 

 cuspidate tip, texture rather thin, above covered with 

 scattered rough pale hairs, and on the nerves and reti- 

 culations small stellate tufts of hairs, distant, beneath 

 more thickly covered with stellate hairs and long rough 

 hairs; midrib densely tomentose with stellate hairs, and 

 numerous pale rough hairs interpersed, 4 to 6 inches long, 

 2-3 inches wide, nerves 7-10 pairs petioles half an inch 

 long red hairy. Panicles numerous crowded at the ends 

 of the branches 6-8 inches long densely rough hairy, 

 branches short 1 inch or less with few short slender 

 branches hairy. Flowers J inch long tube campanulate 

 as long as the linear ciliate lobes. Androecium one third 



Jour. Straits Branch 



