NEW AND EAEE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 169 



hairy, sepals lanceolate, hairy. Petals triangular lanceolate 

 acute hairy outside, glabrous inside. Stamens rather broad 

 with a round flat crest. Pistils about 6, hairy, style short, 

 distinct; stigmas rather large suborbicular, hairy. 



Penang, Pulau Butong Eeserve (Curtis 2745). 

 This species is allied to P. dumosa, King. 



Polyalthia asteriella, Eidl. n. sp. 



Tree. Branchlets puberulous. -Leaves thin, coriaceous 

 lanceolate acuminate, base cuneate, nerves elevate beneath 10 

 pairs, 6 inches long, 3 inches wide, petiole thick .2 in. Flowers 

 extra-axillary on a short pubescent peduncle .05 in. with a few 

 small oblong ovate bracts, pedicels .5 in. long, appressed hairy. 

 Sepals 3, short, ovate .05 in. Petals linear, fleshy, very narrow 

 from a broader base .'2 in. long, nearly glabrous. Stamens 

 numerous, oblong, appendage flat. Pistils few, about 6, hairy 

 ellipsoid, narrowed into a small style with a large ovoid 

 stigma. 



Perak, Taiping Hills (Eidley 2986). 



This very small flowered species is allied only to P. longi- 

 folia in its small narrow petals, but the petals are even smaller 

 and narrower than in that species. 



GUTTIFERAE. 

 Garcinia Murdochii, Eidl. n. sp. 



Branches yellow, angled, ' internodes .75 in., slender. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, rather abruptly shortly cuspidate, 

 blunt base cuneate, nerves very fine almost invisible on both 

 sides, 3 in. long, 1.5 in. wide. Petiole slender .35 in. Flowers 

 solitary, sessile terminal .5 in. wide. Sepals 4, ovate. Petals 

 4, obovate oblong, much larger and apparently red. Stamens 

 in a round head 30 or more, anthers peltate, cells 2, crescent- 

 shaped. Female no staminodes. Petals and sepals as in male ; 

 pistil subcylindric, stigma very large, cushion-shaped covering 

 the pistil. 



Perak, Bikum reserve (Burn-Murdoch 371) male. Bor- 

 neo, Kuching (Haviland 2339) female. 



The Kuching plant has thicker smooth shining leaves with 

 a prominent midrib, but otherwise so far as I can see the two 

 plants agree. The solitary sessile terminal flower is unusual. 



Garcinia minutiflora, Eidl. n. sp. 



Tree with rougrnbarked brown terete branches. Leaves 

 coriaceous drying light green, elliptic blunt, almost truncate 

 at top, base cuneate, edge thickened, nerves faint, about 7 pairs, 

 more conspicuous above than beneath, inarching within the 



R. A. Soc, No. 82, 1920. 



