168 NEW AND EAEE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 



E. nervosa, Hook, fil., is a big tree with extra axillary flowers, 

 the petals all similar, not excavate at the base, the one-seeded 

 carpel with a terminal stigma. The foliage much resembles 

 that of Popowia nervifolia and I should be inclined to refer 

 it to that genus. 



EUipeia glabra, Hook. fil. I cannot separate from Polyalthia. It 

 will be seen that there are three distinct forms of plants in- 

 cluded under the genus EUipeia. The original one is very dis- 

 tinct from anything else known to me. The Uvaria-like 

 species, E. leptopoda, E. ferruginea, etc. might be kept as a 

 distinct genus under the name of Uvariella distinguished 

 from Uvaria by the one-ovuled pistil and one-seeded carpels. 



Polyalthia purpurea, Eidl. n. sp. P. lateriflora var. Kallah 

 Boerl. Ic. Pt, I. 



Small tree about 15 ft. tall, glabrous branches, slender 

 longitudinally wrinkled pale. Leaves narrow, lanceolate 

 acuminate, base cuneate, coriaceous, nerves fine 12 pairs; 

 midrib channelled above, reticulations fine, visible on both 

 sides when dry, 8 inches long 2-2.25 in. wide, petiole thick, 

 black, grooved .25 in. long. Flowers in clusters of about 

 4 on the branches; pedicels rather stout 1 in. long. Sepals 

 ovate 5 round, pubescent .15 in. long. Petals outer elliptic, 

 lanceolate, 1 in. long .25 in. wide, subacute, purple, inner petals 

 shorter and narrower, acute, all glabrous. Stamens very nu- 

 merous with flat round appendage. Ovaries very numerous 

 with no style and small stigma, tips pubescent. Torus pubes- 

 cent. Fruit oblong, blunt, .75 in. long, one-seeded, stalk 1 in. 

 long. 



This has long been cultivated in the Singapore Botanic 

 Gardens with no clue to its history, but there is a specimen in 

 Herb. Kew from the Buitenzorg Gardens named thence, Poly- 

 althia lateriflora var. Kdllak Boerl. In Boerlage's diagnosis it 

 is given as Sumatran. Polyalthia lateriflora, King, is different 

 from this in flower and foliage and is based on Guatteria lateri- 

 flora, Bl. Fl. Jav. t. 50. Polyalthia lateriflora, Kurz is P. 

 simiarum, Hook. fil. 



Polyalthia hirta, Bidl. n. sp. 



Small tree. Branchlets slender, hairy. Leaves lanceolate 

 acuminate base rounded, narrowed glabrous except midrib 

 beneath, nerves hardly visible above, beneath 7 pairs slender ele- 

 vate as are the nervules inarching .1 in. from edge, 4.5 in. long, 

 1.25 in. wide, edges undulate, petioles hairy .05 in. Flowers 

 1-2 nearly sessile extra axillary .5 in. wide, pedicels very short, 



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