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pressed, tomentose, acute ovate. Petals 5, very small linear, 

 glabrous. Stamens glabrous. Fruit 1.25 in. long, red, cover- 

 ed with flat blunt spines .12 in. long, wide triangular at base. 



Malacca, Alor Gajah (Griffith) (Hervey, Maingay 3311 

 and 1630). Dindings, Pangkor, Boundary of the Dindings 

 (Curtis 1389). 



This plant at first closely resembles N. rubescens, Hiern, 

 and indeed Hiern included these specimens under it. It dif- 

 fers however, entirely from that plant in the fruit, which 

 instead of having very short scattered processes, is thickly 

 covered with flat triangular based blunt spines after the 

 manner of a Pulassan but broad at the base. The leaves are 

 narrower and more coriaceous. 



Tristira penangensis, Eidl. n. sp. 



Large tree. Leaves equipinnate 7 in. long. Leaflets 2-3 

 pairs, opposite oblong, blunt; base cuneate shortly chartaceous, 

 pale glabrous, nerves 7 pairs, ascending elevate beneath, mid- 

 rib prominent beneath, channelled above 3-5 in. long, 2-2.5 in. 

 wide; petiolules .25 in., petiole 3 in. Panicle terminal, lax 8 

 in. long. Branches distant lower ones 2 in. long, spreading; 

 upper part of panicles and branch tips pubescent. Flowers 

 numerous fascicled on branches of panicle. Pedicels .1 in. 

 dense, pubescent. Bracts lanceolate, minute, pubescent. Sepals 

 4, ovate, very woolly, pubescent outside .06 in. long. Petals 0. 

 Stamens short-, not exsert 5-7, anthers long, blunt, filaments 

 short, filiform glabrous. Disc irregularly lobed and wrinkled, 

 large, not oblique nor unilateral. Pistil conic 3-angled densely 

 hairy. Stigmas 3, sessile on the narrowed tip, ovules solitary 

 in cells. 



Penang, Government Hill 1,200 ft. (Curtis 1086). 



I am dubious as to the genus of this plant. It has the 

 general .appearance of Erioglossum, but it is more closely 

 allied to Lepisanthes from which the terminal panicled in- 

 florescence separates it. It seems to be quite apetalous and 

 the fruit is probably triangular and hairy, but ripe fruit has 

 not been seen. It is to be hoped that additional specimens 

 may be obtained from Penang Hill. 



LEGUMINOSAE. 



Vigna parviflora, Eidl. n. sp. 



Stems slender; leaflets lanceolate to ovate, tip narrowed, 

 bases of lateral ones oblique membranous, glabrous, 2 in. long, 

 .5-1 in. wide, petiolules .1 in. or less; hairy, petiole slender 

 1.5-2 in. long. Peduncles 1 in. long, slender. Flowers few, 

 crowded at tips, yellow, .25 in. long, keel beaked. Pod sword- 

 shaped, acuminate 2.25 in. long, .26 in. wide. Seed oblong, 

 black, truncate at both ends .2 in. long, hilum long. 



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



