172 NEW AND EASE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 



.5 in. Bracts small. Flowers shortly pedicelled, white .25 

 in. wide. Sepals ovate acute, white tomentose. Petals ovate 

 blunt, woolly all over, not oblique. Stamens 30, inner whorl 

 with short broad filaments shorter than the oblong bifid anther. 

 Appendage longer, densely ciliate ovary conic tomentose to 

 style base. Style rather short, glabrous. 



Penang, Batu Ferenghi by the streams near the iceworks 

 (Curtis 3651). 



Near S. barbata, but the leaves not glaucous beneath and 

 the anthers, not bearded. 



Synaptea cuspidata, Bidl. n. sp. 



Tree. Branches scurfy. Leaves elliptic, lanceolate, long 

 cuspidate, base narrowed, coriaceous, finely reticulate, nerves 

 elevate beneath, 11 pairs, 5 in. long, 1.75 in. wide, petiole 1.5. 

 Flowers not seen. Fruit ellipsoid, scurfy .5 in. long. Sepals 

 larger pair linear oblong, 3 in. long, .36 in. wide, 5-nerved. 

 Smaller ones .75 in. long ovate long acute cuspidate. 



Bindings (Coll. Forest Bangers No. 413). 



Perhaps nearest to 8. Perakensis, but the leaves are more 

 coriaceous and finely reticulate, the inner sepals remarkably 

 long acuminate cuspidate. 



Vatica? stipulata, Bidl. n. sp. 



Glabrous tree? Leaves thin, stiff, coriaceous elliptic lan- 

 ceolate, base shortly narrowed, tip acuminate, edge thickened, 

 nerves slender, about 6 pairs, reticulations visible; midrib pro- 

 minent, 4 in. long 1.5 in. wide; petiole slender 1 in. long, 

 thickened and black in upper third. Stipules large persistent, 

 ovate cordate, round 3-nerved 1 in. long, .75 in. wide. Panicles 

 axillan T and terminal, very lax, branches slender about 1.5 in. 

 long. Flowers .25 in. long, pedicels slender .15 in. Sepals 

 small ovate, connate for half their length, scurfy puberulous 

 outside and sparingly inside. Petals 4 times as long, linear, 

 oblong scurfy on the back, not twisted. Stamens 10 filaments 

 very short, ovary conic pubescent, grooved. Style columnar. 

 Stigma clavate. 



Mount Ophir (Hullett, 781) April 1888. 



The fruits of this curious species not having been seen, 

 the plant remains dubious. In the thin slender lax panicles 

 it resembles V. pallida. 



Balanocarpus Hemsleyanus, King. 



Neither in flowers, leaves nor fruit, resembles the typical 

 Balanocarpus. It is quite clearly a Pacliyclilamys, a genus 

 allied to Sliorea, but which I think advisable to keep separate. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



