40 NEW OK RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



SABIACEAE. 



Meliosma ehgan's, n. sp. 



A small tree 20 to 30 feet tall branches blaek when 

 dry. Leaves unequally pinnate ()-8 inches long leaflets 

 opposite 3-5 pairs, lanceolate acuminate base cuneate 2 

 inches long 1 inch wide glabrous except for a few fuga- 

 cious reddish hairs on the petiolule and midrib, petiolule 

 \ inch long. Panicle lax a foot long, with distant long 

 slender branches 6 inches long or less branchlets 1-2 

 inches. Flowers subsessile small pink fragrant. Rachis 

 everywhere covered with scattered red hairs. Calyx 

 lobes narrow lanceolate obtuse \ or occasionally 5 margins 

 ciliate. Petals glabrous 5 outer ones orbicular, inner 

 ones narrow oblong hooded. Stamens 3 glabrous, hooded 

 with a bilobed rounded cup surrounding the anther. 

 Pistil conic pubescent narrowing to a slender style. Fruit 

 small pisiform with a low keel running on one side \ inch 

 through. 



Selangor: above the Gap, Gunong Semangkok 

 3-4000 feet alt, (Curtis 3754). 



I cannot match this elegant plant with any described 

 species. 

 Meliosma monophylla, n. sp. 



Leaves simple elliptic acuminate with a rather long 

 blunt point, narrowed to the base, thin in texture glabrous 

 sli inning, the nerves slender 7 pairs usually visible above 

 meeting in arches near the margin, length 6 to 8 inches, 

 width 3 to 34 inches: petiole slender thickened at the base 

 H to 2 inches long. Panicles axillary or terminal 2 to 

 3 inches long with a slender peduncle about an inch long 

 glabrous, branches few except in the terminal one, and 

 short. Flowers to i ncn l° n g shortly pedicelled. Sepals 

 5 suborbicular, unequal, margins ciliate. Petals 5, three 

 orbicular glabrous, 2 smaller irregular. Stamens 2 fer- 

 tile. Anthers decurved with a rather wide connective 3 

 irregular sterile, lobed. adnate at the base to the jDetals. 

 Ovary conic glabrous. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



