8 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Sphaerocoryne, Scheff. ms. genus ined. 



Shrubs erect or scandent or small trees. Leaves cori- 

 aceous. Flowers axillary, solitary. Sepals small, ovate, val- 

 vate. Petals outer ovate, inner ones much smaller, flat not 

 excavate at the base. Stamens oblong, numerous, connective 

 flat, truncate. Torus globose. Pistils projecting beyond the 

 stamens. Ovary hairy. Style cylhidric, glabrous. Stigma 

 small bilobed. Ovules 1 basal or 2, lateral. Carpels sub- 

 globose on long stalks. Seed 1 obloug. 



Species 3. 



S. aberrans, Hi'dl. Polyalthia aberrans, Maingay ex Hook, fil., Fl. 

 Brit. Ind i. 67 ; King, in Journ. As. Soc. Ben°. lxi. pt, 

 2, p. 63 ; and in Ann. Calc. Bot. Gard. IV., 78. pi. 109a. , 

 Perak. 



S. siamens's, Scheff. Polyalthia siarnensis, Boerl., Ic. Bogor. 

 LXIX. Unona Mesnyi, Pierre, Fl. Forest. Cochineh., t. 17. 

 Popowia Mesniji, Oraib, in Kew Bull. 1914, p. 5. Popowia 

 e dulis, Pierre. 



Siam, Cambodia. 



S. affinis, Eidl. Polyalthia affinis, Teijsm. and Binn. ex Boerlage, 

 Ic. Bogor. t. LXIII. 



Cult, in Hort. Bogor. origin unknown. 



TILIACEAE. 



Elaeocarpus acmosepalus, Stapf. ms. 



A tree with young parts silky pubescent. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous drying brown, glabrous, elliptic acute or acuminate, 

 base cuneate, margins entire, slightly thickened, nerves 3 pairs 

 inarching within the margin, elevate beneath, reticulations 

 wide not conspicuous, 7 cm. long, 1 cm. wide; petiole slender, 

 geniculate .75 in. long. Racemes slender in upper axils, 6 — 7 

 cm. long, puberulous. Pedicels 6 — 7 mm. long. Sepals 5, lan- 

 ceolate acuminate, sparsely hairy or glabrous, 6 mm. long. 

 Petals cuneate, fimbriate, edges ciliate, nearly as long. Sta- 

 mens 20 — 25, filaments glabrous, as long as the anthers which 

 are awned, the awn nearly as long as the anther and tipped 

 with hairs. Torus of 5 rounded tomentose glands grooved on 

 the hack. Ovary ovoid conic silky pilose, 3-celled, 2 ovules in 

 each cell. Style glabrous above, pilose at base. 



Johore. Pengerang (N. Cantley). xaLso in Sarawak 

 (Beccari 3433), and Bau (Haviland 2035). 



Allied to E. parvifolius, Wall., and E. robustus, Eoxb., 

 which latter it resembles in having some of the leaves shewing 

 signs of pustulations, but the leaves are quite entire and dry 



Jour. Straits Brand? 



