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This plant occurs chiefly in the north of the Peninsula: 

 Pahang, Sungei Jelai (Machado) ; Perak, Kinta (Morton) 

 Temengoh (Ridley 4674) ; Prov. Wellesley (Kunstler) and 

 Penang (Roxburgh, Wallich, etc.) and Patalung in South 

 Siam. 



The whole of this group of Bauhinias seems to be almost 

 confined to the Malay Peninsula with one or two outliers in 

 the Malay islands, and it is a very critical group. 



Crudia brevipes, Eidl. n. sp. 



Tree 16 feet tall. Bark of branchlets white. Leaves 

 rather thin ; leaflets three, elliptic lanceolate, cuspidate, base 

 shortly narrowed, glaucous beneath; nerves 5-6 pairs, anasto- 

 mosing within edge, reticulations netted, conspicuous, fine 

 2.5-5 in. long, 1-1.75 in. wide, petiolule .25 in. or less. Race- 

 me slender, 5 in. long, base shortly nude .5 in. Flowers 

 numerous, dense; pedicels very short, under .05 in. Sepals 4, 

 oblong, blunt .08 in. long. Petals 0. Stamens 6, filaments 

 much longer than the sepals, filiform, anther cordate. Ovary 

 woolly. Style glabrous, filiform. Stigma small, cup-shaped. 



Province Wellesley, Tasek Gelugur (Ridley 12653). 



jSTative name, Poko Bebaru. 



The pedicels of the flowers are very short for this genus, 

 and the flowers themselves very small. I find no more than 6 

 stamens in the flower and in one bud only 5. This is fewer 

 than usual in the genus. 



ROSACEAE. 

 Coccomelia, Ridl. n. gen. 



The small tree Parinarium? nitidum, Hook, f., common 

 in the South of the Peninsula and in Sarawak, was referred 

 tentatively to Parinarium by Hooker and by King from in- 

 sufficient specimens, though they pointed out it was not typi- 

 cally Parinarium differing in having a cushion-like process at 

 the base of the calyx-tube which in other parts is lined by the 

 swollen bases of the stamens. This hairy process or lining is 

 apparently the disc, and lies on the front part of the tube. 

 The fruit is a small, red pulpy drupe, with a one-celled stone. 

 The stamens are 8-10 in number. This is very different from 

 the typical Parinarium in which the carpels are usually 2, the 

 stamens more numerous and the hairy disc seems to be absent, 

 while in no species is the drupe really pulpy or red. In most 

 Parinariums the " drupe " consists of a hard brown woody 

 stone without any pulpy pericarp at all. Only P. Griffithia- 

 num of our species has a thinly fleshy pericarp. 



While this plant somewhat resembles Parastemon in ap- 

 pearance it is distinguished from that by its possessing 8-10 



». A. Soc, No. 82, 1920. 



