20 NEW AND BABE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



margin, 3.5 in. long, 2 in. wide, petiole .2 in. long. Flowers 

 .15 in. across in fascicles of 5 or 6, pedicels 2 in. long, slender. 

 Calyx flat, lobes short, blunt, rugose. Petals lanceolate, ob- 

 tuse, rather fleshy with a keel on the back. Stamens 3 from 

 the top of the disc which is tall and fleshy; filaments short, 

 linear recurved rather broad, anthers rounded, elliptic. Ovary 

 quite immersed in the disc. The fruit about 1 in. through, 

 rugose bright red. 



S. verrucosa, Wight 111. i. 134 (1831). This is identical with 8. 

 polyanflia, Korthals, Flora, XXXI (1848) 379, and is the ear- 

 lier name. It is a native of Mergui and Borneo and has been 

 collected also at Tongkah, and Lankawi by Curtis. 



S. ovalis, Lawson I.e. 627 : 8. Lawsonii, King in the Materials, 

 appears to me to be nothing more than a state of the common 

 8. favescens, Kurz. 



S. Lobbii, Lawson, seems to be merely a form of 8. Maingayi, Law- 

 son. 



Salacia Korthalsiana, Miq. ; 8. radula, Hassk. PL Jav. p. 231 



(not of Don.). 



A climbing shrub with rather large alternate coriaceous 

 leaves, oblong with a short blunt point; nerves elevate beneath 

 the 7 pairs, 7 in. long and 2.75 in. wide. Flowers in small 

 cymes at the ends of axillary panicles with rather thick clicho- 

 tomous branches, 1.5 in. long, including the rather long 

 peduncle. Sepals rounded, 5. Petals oblong, yellow, .1 in. 

 long. Disc rather large and thick. Fruit ovoid blunt, .75 in. 



Sixgapore. Bukit Timah Eoad at 7 J miles (Hulleti 

 005). Also occurs in Java. 



This plant has been omitted by King from the Materials. 

 It does not appear to be common anywhere. The branches 

 are in Javanese specimens especially dotted over with raised 

 lenticels hence the name 8. radula, but Hullett's plant hardly 

 shows them. The long stalked inflorescence is peculiar, and 

 gives it the appearance of a Hippocratea. 



Hippocratea nigricaulis, n. sp. II. rnacranflia, King I.e. 357, not 

 of Korthals. 



Slender climber 10 to 30 feet long, stem black, rough. 

 Leaves coriaceous, shining, bright green, elliptic, blunt, rounded 

 at the base, crenulate sometimes very slightly, nerves 6 pairs, 

 elevate beneath, 2 — 5 in. long, 1.3 to 2.75 in. wide, petiole .01 

 in. long. Panicles 1 in. long, red puberulous. Flowers .3 in. 

 aci-oss, pale yellow or greenish yellow. Calyx cupular with 

 broad shallow teeth. Petals triangular lanceolate, minutely 

 puberuious, outside, quite glabrous within. Disc deep fleshy, 



Jour. Straits Branch 



