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stamens instead of only 2. It is therefore necessary to found 

 a genus for it and I name it Coccomelia (the Greek for a 

 Plum tree), the species thus being Coccomelia nit Ida, Ridl. 

 The southern form from Singapore, Malacca, etc. and from 

 Santubong in Sarawak, has rather narrow lanceolate leaves, the 

 northern form from Penang Hill and Setul heaths has broader 

 leaves, more rounded and larger fruit. Perak specimens seem 

 to be intermediate. I call the northern one Coccomelia nitida 

 var. latifolia. 



LEGNOTIDAE. 



Carallia spinulosa, Ridl. n. sp. 



Tree or shrub. Leaves thin, elliptic abruptly acuminate, 

 base cuneate edge spinulose, nerves fine and faint 14 pairs, 

 secondaries as prominent reticulations, conspicuous, 4-5 in. 

 long, 1.75-2 in. wide, petiole .2 in. Cymes .4 in. long on a 

 peduncle .2 in., with 2 ovate acute bracts at base of the two 

 branches, cyme branches short with numerous imbricating, 

 round bracts at the top. Flowers sessile .2 in. long. Sepals 

 6 or 7, triangular, acute. Petals shorter, obovate reniform 

 edges undulate, slightly toothed, with a very short claw, white, 

 as broad as long. Stamens in two rows shorter than petals, 

 one row adnate to the sepals, one from the disc enclosed in 

 the petals. Style columnar, stigma capitate. Disc a thick 

 fleshy ring obscurely lobed. Fruit ellipsoid with persistent 

 sepals .2 in. long (dry) 2-seeded. 



Perak. Tanjong Malim (Ridley 11858) Cambodia, Ton- 

 kin Dong-Dong (Balansa 1506). 



This has been referred to C. lucida, Roxb., a plant of 

 south India, collected by himself and never apparently seen 

 again by anyone (King erroneously makes it a form of 0. 

 integerrimum) . This species is very distinct in its thin spinu- 

 lose leaves, in which one row of the short, stamens is adnate to 

 the sepals and the 2-seeded fruit. The foliage resembles that 

 of C. suffruticosa, Ridl., but the inflorescence is totally different. 

 Balansa describes it as ■' Arbrissea " but as far as I remember 

 the Tanjong Malim plant which grew near the railway station, 

 was a low, bushy tree. 



MYRTACEAE. 



Tristania spathulata, Ridl. n. sp. 



Shrub 12 feet tall. Leaves crowded at tips of branches r 

 oblanceolate spathulate rounded at tip or shortly blunt, acu- 

 minate base long acuminate, very narrowly decurrent on 

 petiole, coriaceous nerves 13 pairs, faint midrib elevate beneath, 

 2.5 to 2.75 in. long, .75-1 in. wide, petiole slender .25 in. 



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