NEW AND EASE MALAYAN PLANTS. 31 



Polyosma conocarpa, n. sp. P. mutabilis, King in part. 



Tree 20 — 30 feet tall, young- parts appressed, hairy. 

 Leaves membranous, elliptic lanceolate, acuminate, long nar- 

 rowed to base, quite entire, glabrous, nerves about 8 pairs, con- 

 spicuous beneath inarching well within the margin, 3.5 — 6 in. 

 long 1.25 — 2 in. wide, petiole .2 in. long appressed and hairy 

 when young. Eaceme 5 in. long appressed hairy. Flowers 

 white, scattered or in little groups; pedicels .1 in. in fruit .2 

 in. Calyx tube campanulate, hairy, teeth very small, subacute. 

 Petals linear .2 in. long sparsely hairy outside, villous in- 

 side. Stamens nearly as long. Fruit conoid, truncate stronglv 

 4-ribbed when dry, .25 in. across at base, narrowing upwards. 



Singapore. (Wallich 8^2). Perak. Larut Hills 

 (Kunstler), Birch's Hill (Wray). Kedah. Lankawi, Gu- 

 nong Eaya (Mohamet! Ilaniff). Sumatra. Padang at Aver 

 Mantjur (Beccari 524). Forests up to 1000 ft. Flowers 

 scented like privet. 



This is quite different from Blume's P. mutabilis of Java 

 in the fruit, which resembles that of P. velutina, Bl. as figured 

 in Koorder's and Valenton's Boomsorten. 



P. glaucescens, n. sp. 



A small tree 20 — 30 feet tall, or shrub. Leaves elliptic to 

 lanceolate acute, base narrowed, thick, coriaceous, glabrous 

 beneath, nerves very obscure 3 — 3.5 in. long, 1.75 to 1.5 in. 

 Avide, petiole 1 in. long. Eaceme pubescent 2.5 — 3 in. long. 

 Flowers crowded .2 in. long. Buds oblong, dilate at base. 

 Calyx very short funnel-shaped, lobes acute spreading, pubes- 

 cent. Petals oblong, blunt, sparsely strigose outside, densely 

 villous at tip inside. Stamens shorter. 



Pahaxg. Gunong Tahan (Robinson 5388, 5493; Ridley 

 16260) : on the Padang and on Skeat's ridge (Ridley 16018, 

 16019). 



I originally referred this to varieties intermedia and 

 lanceolata of Kings P. coriacea, but on closely examining it 

 conclude it to be specifically distinct not only in the foliage, 

 the leaves being thicker with very inconspicuous nerves, and 

 usually glaucous beneath, but with shorter, broader flowers 

 less pubescent and dilate at the base. The leaves vary in 

 form somewhat, perhaps according to the amount of exposure 

 on these rocky ridges and growth of the plant. 



P. fragrans, Benn. PL Jav. Ear. 196; Ilea fragrant. Wall. S^2. 



The only plants of this 1 have seen are those collected by 

 Wallich in Singapore (mixed unfortunately with P. ]Yallicliii 

 from Khasia distributed under the next number in many 

 distributions by accident) and one which appears the same 

 collected in Perak without locality by Scortechini. In Havi- 



R. A. Soc, No. 75, 1917. 



