32 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



land's Sarawak collections are two plants I take to be this, 

 though the flowers are rather smaller .15 in. long. ])r. Havi- 

 land notes " Ovary 2-celled, 3 in one case, several ovuled." 



They were obtained at Kuching (Haviland 944 and 

 1886). 



Polyosma velutina, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat, I. 261. 



To this species King refers a plant which occurs in 

 Perak at Groping and in Larut (Kunstler), the Bindings, 

 Bruas (Ridley) and in Penang on Penang Hill and at Balik 

 Pulau (Curtis 1165) with bright yellowish green leaves, like 

 those of P. laetevirens. He had not seen specimens of Blume's 

 plant, nor have I seen types of Blume's plant, But 1 have not 

 seen anything like King's species from Java ; and the plant 

 identified with P. velutina, Bl. by Koorders and Valeton 

 (Boomsorten PL 195) and distributed as this plant Xo. 24404b 

 is entirely different, and belongs to the section of Polyosma 

 with membranous and black drying leaves. I conclude there- 

 fore that King's P. velutina cannot be Blume's plant and give 

 the name of P. ftavovirens to it. Blume's description of P. 

 velutina is short; but the only species I have seen from Java 

 with velvety leaves is the above mentioned plant from Koor- 

 ders' collections and one from Zollinger Xo. 886 : and these 

 agree with Blume's description as far as it goes. It has mem- 

 branous black drying leaves densely fuscous velvety beneath 

 and curiously angled branches. The fruit is ovoid and .2 in. 

 long in these specimens. Specimens collected at Kuching in 

 Sarawak by Haviland (Xo. 2914) seem identical. 



Polyosma fasciculata* n. sp. 



Leaves sub-coriaceous, elliptic sparsely toothed along the 

 edge, base blunt and shortly narrowed, tip subacute, quite 

 glabrous, nerves 6 to 10 pairs branched at the tip, rather 

 ohscure and not elevate, 4—6 in. long thick. Spikes rather 

 slender 6 in. long puberulous. Flowers numerous, .4 in. long, 

 sessile, fascicled in groups of 2 — 1 or 5. Buds cylindric blunt 

 very sparsely puberulous. Bracts hairy acute. Calyx tube very 

 short sub-companulate, lobes ovate acute spreading. Petals 

 rather broad in proportion to length, sparsely villous inside. 

 Stamens a little shorter. 



Kedati, Gunong Jerai (Ridley 5219). 



King refers this dubiously to P. coriacea. King, but it 

 seems to me in its small very sparsely hairy flowers much more 

 nearly allied to P. Scortecliinii a very little known plant which 

 has however quite entire leaves and distinct pedicels to the 

 flowers. The flowers in this species are not evenly scat- 

 tered over the rachis, but clustered together in small lots. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



