NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 39 



of leaf closely scurfy, midrib semiterete elevated. 

 Panicle large terminal much branched, branches often 

 over 18 inches long slender lax spreading, hairy with 

 short rough hairs. Flowers small green in short cymes. 

 Bracts small linear hairy. Calyx lobes rounded ovate 

 pubescent 5. Petals valvate oblong obtuse glabrous 5. 

 Stamens 5 shorter than the petals, glabrous, anther ellip- 

 tic. Pistil conic ovoid hairy. 



Malacca: Low ground near Ophir (Hullett) ; Pa- 

 hang: Tahan Kiver (Eidley 2569), Kwala Lipis 

 (Machado). 



The original description was from a plant obtained 

 in Sumatra at Tarentang by Miquel who described it as 

 Buchanania oxyrrliacliis, Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. I. 524. 

 It will be noticed in the description I have given above 

 that the midrib can hardly be called " acutangled," even 

 at the tip, below it is distinctly rounded and often 

 grooved. I believe I have seen it very commonly all over 

 the low country of the Peninsula, but it very rarely is 

 met with in flower and I have never seen fruit. 

 Semecarpus glomerulatus, n. sp. 



Bark grey. Leaves obovate apex rounded base nar- 

 rowed to the petiole, margin undulate, coriaceous glabrous 

 above, beneath nerves and reticulations covered with short 

 red hairs, nerves about 10 pairs, meeting in arches at the 

 margin reticulations numerous and prominent visible on 

 both surfaces but most elevated beneath 4-8' inches long 

 2^-5 wide petiole pubescent £-J inch long thick. Panicle 

 8-12 inches long with numerous spreading branches 4 to 

 6 inches long, rachis closely valvety pubescent. Flowers 

 in distant glomeruli very numerous T \j inch across. 

 Pedicels very short pubescent. Calyx shallow with 5 

 very short lobes, pubescent. Petals 5 glabrous ovate 

 lanceolate subobtuse valvate. Stamens 5 filaments 

 slender about as long as the petals glabrous. Disc broad 

 flat fleshy hairy in the centre. 



' Lankawi: Pulau Nior Stali (Curtis 3681), 



R. A. Soc, No. 54> 1909- 



