34 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



ments short. Anthers longer oblong. Ovaries 5. Styles 

 short. Carpels obovate reniform. Gompliia Hookeri, 

 var. corymbosa, King Mat. Fl. Mai. Pen. Vol. I. 475. 



Singapore : Top of Bukit Timah (Kidley 10738) ; 

 Perak: Goping (King's Coll. 4673). 



Gompliia Hookeri is a shrub frequenting sandy 

 places near the sea, with deep crimson flowers in small 

 umbels. This plant is as regards the Singapore plant 

 at least, (the type) a tree frequenting forests, with larger 

 umbels of smaller pure white flowers. 

 Euthemis minor, Jack Mai. Misc. 



This was described by Jack from specimens found 

 in Singapore with the common E. leucocarpa Jack, but 

 though I have met with it in Pulau Batam and King 

 records it from Bangka, it appeared to have become 

 extinct in- Singapore, I was therefore very pleased when 

 on visiting the banks of the river at Chua Chu Kang to 

 find a quantity of this pretty plant growing with E. 

 leucocarpa in the sandy woods above the river. King's 

 description of it is very poor. He merely mentions that 

 its leaves are obscurely veined, a difference which is hardly 

 noticeable in the living plant, and that . the leaves are 

 nearly entire, and the berries red. These he gives as 

 distinguishing points, but the berries of E. leucocarpa are 

 as often red as white, varying from white to rose and rose 

 to deep red. Jack's description is fuller and gives the 

 points of this plant well. It is smaller and more pros- 

 . trate than E, leucocarpa with dark brown bark. The 

 leaves are more distant and much smaller 3 to 4 inches 

 long 1J wide or even smaller narrowly lanceolate dark 

 green above and paler beneath, the petiole is winged to 

 the base as in leucocarpa but much less distinctly so. 

 The surface of the leaves is quite smooth and though 

 the thickened edge is serrate the minute thorns which arm 

 the teeth are very inconspicuous and often not developed 

 at all. The panicle is very distinct. It is much longer 

 than the leaves, nearly 6 inches long and quite lax, hardly 

 branched, the flowers being mostly in pairs, with green 



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