SO NEW AND BARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



cent. Stamens much shorter than sepals glabrous. Style very 

 short with the ovary densely villous. Stigma discoid. 



Pahaxg. Gunong Tahan in woods across the Teku 

 {Ridley). 



The indumentum and short racemes and more coriaceous 

 leaves are so different in this plant from those of true P. 

 costatum that I consider it advisable to separate it specifically 

 though it is certainly allied to that species. 



Pygeum coriifolium, n. sp. 



Small tree, leaves coriaceous elliptic shortly blunt and 

 acuminate, base very shortly narrowed, glabrous, nerves in- 

 visible above prominent beneath distant 5 pairs, midrib very 

 prominent, reticulations invisible, 6 in. long 3.5 in. wide, 

 petiole 5 in. long. Racemes solitary axillary .5 in. long, pedi- 

 cels very short, puberulous. Calyx tube campanulate, pubes- 

 cent, lobes 6 unequal, ovate acute pubescent, inside of tube 

 glabrous. Petals 0. Stamens with filaments long, rather 

 thick, 20. Style stout, shorter. Stigma clubbed, flattened, 

 ovary short, globose, hairy. 



Pekak. Temengoh and Kertai rivers; in forests (Bid- 

 ley). 



Allied to P. parrvfioruiii, Teysm. hut the leaves are larger 

 and rather more fleshy, with distant and fewer nerves. The 

 raceme is almost a spike, solitary, very short. 



SAXIFRAGACEAE. 



Polyosma grandis, n. sp. 



A tree 40 to 50 feet tall with spreading branches. Stem 

 1.5 — 2 ft. through. Leaves membranous drying black, ovate 

 elliptic, cuspidate, acuminate, base cuneate, margins denti- 

 culate, glabrous except the midrib and prominent 12 pairs of 

 nerves beneath, secondary nerves nearly as prominent 6 — 7 

 in. long, 3 — 4 in. wide, petiole stout .5 long, flattened, pubes- 

 cent. Raceme 6 in. long, peduncle 1 in. long, flattened, pubes- 

 cent. Buds narrow cylindric blunt, pedicels .1 in. long, pubes- 

 cent. Calyx-tube cylindric, lobes broad, ovate, acute as long 

 as the tube. Petals subglabrous, narrow, linear, sparsely vil- 

 lous inside. Stamens shorter, filaments villous. 



Pekak. Larut Hills at 3500 to 4000 ft, (Kunstler 3802). 

 Flowers white, base greenish. 



This plant was referred by King to P. integrifolia, Bl. 

 but is clearly very distinct from that species and is most 

 closely allied to P. ilicifolia, Bl. but from this it differs in its 

 large size and very large ovate elliptic leaves and thick petals. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



