28 NEW AND BARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



LEGUMINOSAE. 



Bauhinia monticola, n. sp. 



A slender glabrescent climber. Leaves ovate deltoid, tip 

 acuminate very shortly bifid or entire, coriaceous glabrous, 

 nerves 7, 2 — 2.5 in. long, 1.5 — 2 in. wide, petiole 1 in. long. 

 Eacemes short 1 — 2 in. long lax glabrous or nearly so. Pedicels 

 long slender 1.5 in. long sparsely hairy. Bracts minute cadu- 

 cous. Buds ovoid. Calyx tube cylindric .4 in. long red, ap- 

 pressed hairy; lobes ovate .3 in. long hairy. Petals oblong 

 obtuse, conspicuously veined when dry, sparsely hairy on the 

 back, claw .1 in. long, blade .7 in. long, .5 in. wide. Stamens 

 very short hairy at base. Ovary stalked, cylindric red-hairy 

 on the sutures, .2 in. long. iStyle almost half as long, hairy on 

 the upper edge. Stigma large peltate. 



Selaxgoe. Gunong Menkuang at 5000 ft. (Robinson) . 

 Perak. Gunong Kerbau, 4500 — 5500 ft. (Robinson). 



This plant is certainly allied to B. Kingii, Prain, for 

 which I at first mistook it and- to B. cornifoJia, Bak. but it has 

 much larger flowers than either of these species. The flowers 

 are apparently red. It belongs to the big set of showy Bau- 

 hinias which with their masses of yellow flowers turning red, 

 make such a magnfiicent show in our forests, a group very 

 characteristic of the Malay Peninsula for few of them seem 

 to occur elsewhere. 



Bauhinia holosericea, n. sp. 



A big climber, branches, petioles and inflorescence densely 

 red velvety. Leaves coriaceous, orbicular cordate, entire or 

 refuse at the tip, nerves 7 or 9 elevated beneath, glabrous above, 

 densely red velvety beneath on the nerves and reticulations, 

 less so on the rest of the surface, 2 — 2.5 in. long, 2.4 — 3 in. 

 wide, petiole 1.25 in. long. Panicles of a few stout axillary and 

 terminal racemes from 2.5 lengthening to 5 in. long, the bran- 

 ches with numerous distinct elevated scars where the flowers 

 have fallen, densely red, velvety. Bracts lanceolate acuminate, 

 .1 in. long. Pedicels slender .6 in. long. Buds ovate acute 

 with a shorter tube. Calyx tube cylindric, dilate at base, .2 in. 

 long, lobes oblong 2 in. long, hairy. Petals oblong, rather 

 short clawed, very red hairy .35 in. long, .2 in. Avide, apparent- 

 ly red. Stamens fertile, 3, glabrous. Ovary hairy all over. 

 Style about as long, slender, glabrous. Stigma peltate. Pod 

 woody, firm, .8 in. long, 2.5 in. wide, oblong blunt, slightly 

 narrowed at the tip. Seeds flat orbicular 1.1 in. long. 



Perak. Forests at Temengoh (Ridley 14674). 



This also belongs to the same group as the last, but seems 

 distinct from any species in its very velvety stem, round leaves, 

 and thick velvety racemes of which the rhachis is rough with 



Jour. Straits Branch 



