NEW OK RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 41 



Perak: Hermitage Hill (Ridley) a single specimen 

 collected in 1892. 



Very distinct from any species known to me is its 

 thin textured simple leaves and general glabrous habit, 

 the flowers too are fewer and larger than usual. 



MELASTOMACEAE. 



Anerincleistus paucifiorus, n. sp. 



Much branched shrub about 6 feet tall, stems terete. 

 Leaves elliptic ovate acuminate winged on the petiole 

 glabrous above and beneath except a few hairs on the 

 midrib, 7 inches long 3 inches wide, 5 nerved, with 

 straight parallel transverse conspicuous nerves, petiole 1 

 inch long, winged in the upper part covered with rough 

 pale hairs as are the young parts. Flowers 2 or 3 in a 

 small raceme terminal on a very short peduncle. Bract 

 hairy ovate acuminate obtuse ] inch long. Calyx lobes 

 fleshy linear, hairy T \j inch long. Petals ovate acute 

 bright rose pink margins minutely ciliate. Stamens 8 

 equal and similar filament flat linear narrowed at tip 

 glabrous pink. Anthers longer hardly sagittate base of 

 cells rounded, acuminate upwards opening by terminal 

 pores, glabrous with a pair of short processes or warts 

 rising from the base of an oblong thickened connective. 

 Style thick cylindric. Capsule ^ inch long thickly 

 roughly hairy splitting above into 8 linear lobes. 



Selangor: Klang Gates almost out of flower, Aug. 

 1908. 



A much bigger plant than A. macranthus, King, 

 with hairy calyx tube and with the capsule valves splitt- 

 ing into 8 linear lobes. From A. liirsutus, Korthals, it 

 differs in the very short inflorescence the large bract and 

 the dehiscence, and larger more glabrous leaves. 

 Ochthocharis ovalifolia, n. sp. 



A shrublet branched with pale bark young parts 

 covered with dark red curly hairs. Leaves opposite ovate 

 acute or acuminate base rounded, margin crenulate with 



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



