NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 35 



lanceolate persistent bracts I inch long. The flowers, 

 open one in each pair at a time, after which the pedicel 

 elongates somewhat so that the young fruit of one pair is 

 well developed before, the second flower is open. The 

 sepals are ovate ciliate, r 1 ^ inch long, green, becoming 

 pink as the fruit ripens and fallen before the fruit is 

 ripe. The whole flower is smaller than that of E. leuco- 

 carpa. The petals are linear oblong white, and the sta- 

 mens much resemble those of that species. The ovary 

 is brighter green and conic but angled, while that of 

 leucocarpa is nearly white and quite smooth and rounded. 

 The fruit is quite different. It is strongly five angled, 

 and this is most conspicuous before it is ripe and when 

 still green, but when fully ripe the angles are still visible 

 and the top of the fruit nearly flat and very dark red, 

 not at all resembling the globose round topped fruit of E. 

 leucocarpa. The plant grew in some abundance in one 

 spot in a sandy wood, where E. leucocarpa (some plants 

 of which attained a height of over six feet) was plentiful, 

 and Dipteris HorsfielcUi formed a large thicket. It was 

 probably more abundant in Singapore at one time as it is 

 not probable that Jack reached this part of the island 

 which must in his time have been quite inaccessible. 

 There is no evidence of its occurrence in Penang as men- 

 tioned by Hooker in the Flora of P>ritish India. 



SAPIXDACEAE. 



Capura pulcliella, n. sp. 



Shrub little branched about 6 feet tall. Leaves with 

 4 or 5 leaflets, elliptic lanceolate coriaceous dark green, 

 nerves inconspicuous 8 pairs, 6 inches long or more 3 

 inches across, petiolule ^ inch long ; petiole 3 inches 

 long. Stipules ovate obtuse 2 inches long H inch wide, 

 all glabrous. Eacemes slender 6 inches long, with distant 

 flowers about 20, glabrous. Bracts minute lanceolate 

 acuminate 1 mm. Peduncles very short thick each bear- 

 ing 1 or 2 flowers. Pedicels T T o inch long. Sepals 4 



R. A. Sue, No. 54. 1909. 



