NEW AND BARE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 179 



secondary peduncles, 8 in. long with spreading branches and 

 numerous small flowers in small cymes of two or three flowers 

 or solitary racemes at the top of the branches. Flowers .15 

 in. across. Bracts very small triangular, cuspidate. Sepals 

 ovate, blunt .06 in. long minutely ciliate. Petals oblong, 

 blunt, little longer. Anthers small elliptic filaments stout, 

 linear. Styles stout; ovary cylindrie, conic not broad and 

 grooved at base. 



Common. Singapore, Tanglin; Bukit Mandai, Muar, 

 Bukit Keyara (Fox) Perak, Penang Hill (Wallich 4939) 

 Telok Bahang (Curtis). 



Native name Giramong, Geritta. 



Turpinia laxiflora, Eidl. n. sp. 



A very big tree up to 80 feet tall. Leaves 9-10 in. long, 

 leaflets 5, ovate elliptic, blunt or acuminate entire or minutely 

 crenulate, base round, coriaceous dark green, drying dark 

 brown ; nerves fine, 4 pairs ascending as in latifolia but fainter 

 4 in. long, 3 in. wide, petiole (terminal) .75 in., laterals .15-2 

 in. long. Panicles very lax, slender, spreading 15 in. long, 

 minutely puberulous. Bracts minute, lanceolate acuminate. 

 Pedicels .1 in. longer than the flower. Flowers white 12 in. 

 across, in lax racemes solitary or 2-3 in a cyme. Sepals 

 ovate, round ciliate. Petals much longer, triangular oblong, 

 blunt, minutely denticulate. Stamens short, filaments slender, 

 filiform. Pistil as in T. latifolia but smaller. 



Singapore Botanic Gardens on the rockery. Perak, Larut 

 (Kunstler No. 2824). 



The tree which has white bark sheds its leaves at certain 

 times and flowers when the young leaves develop, but the 

 panicles" persist when the leaves are full grown. The young 

 leaves when they first appear are narrow elliptic lanceolate, 

 much longer than broad. 



Napeodendron, Eidl. n. gen. 



A very big tree entirely glabrous except the flowers. 

 Leaves alternate pinnate with 2 — 3 pairs of leaflets; leaflets 

 coriaceous. Panicles large, erect, flowers small, white. Sepals 

 4, ovate. Petals longer 4. Stamens 8, filaments short, thick, 

 hairy, anthers ovoid shortly apiculate, ovary sunk partly in 

 disc 2-celled, one ovule in each cell. Style short, stout. 

 Stigma large, discoid. Fruit unknown. Species one. 



Napeodendron altissimum, Eidl. n. sp. 



Very lofty tree. Leaves, petiole 2.5 in. long, leaflets 

 alternate or subopposite, coriaceous, glaucescent beneath, elliptic 

 acute, base blunt, nerves elevate beneath 12 pairs, 3.5 to 5 in. 



K. A. Soc, No. 82, 1920. 



