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Flowers not seen. Cymes in fruit 1.5 in. long, peduncle 

 slender. Fruit calyx cupular with short points, .1 in.; valves 

 of capsule broad oblong .25 in. long, tips broad, rounded. 



Pulau Battam island (Eidley 5886). 



This plant was recorded in King's Materials as T. ob- 

 ovata, Bennett, a Bornean plant, a big tree with much thinner 

 and larger leaves and much smaller fruit, the leaves quite a 

 different shape. The only plant I have seen at all resembling 

 T. spaihidata is a Borneo plant collected by Motley and Havi- 

 land with small flowers, but as I have not seen fruit of these 

 specimens and the leaves are thinner, more lanceolate and with 

 more nerves, I refrain from considering it as the same thing. 



Eugenia clypeolata, Eidl. n. sp. 



A bush. Branchlets angled. Leaves, ovate-cordate, blunt 

 imbricating, stiffly coriaceous, nerves very faint about 8 pairs 

 1 in. long .6 in. wide, petiole .05 in. Flowers in a dense ter- 

 minal head, hardly appearing above the leaves, about 20. 

 Calyx-tube .18 in. gradually dilating from base, ribbed, lobes 

 rounded 5, persistent. Petals small, calyptrate white. Sta- 

 mens numerous, short. Style rather long and stout. 



Pahang, Gunong Tahan on the slopes beyond the Teku 

 river (Eidley 16022). 



I took this for a form of E. Stapfiana, but it has larger 

 leaves quite round and cordate at the base and the flowers 

 smaller and the calyx ribbed not pustular. 



RUBIACEAE. 



Canthium congestiflorum, Eidl. n. sp. 



Small tree. Glabrous. Leaves elliptic lanceolate, rather 

 long, acuminate, base shortly cuneate ; nerves elevate beneath 

 5 pairs, slightly sunk above, 5 in. long, 2 in. wide, petiole .25 

 in. Stipules triangular, cuspidate. Flowers numerous in 

 dense umbels A in. through, peduncle .1 in., pedicels as long; 

 bracts ovate lanceolate. Calyx saucer-shaped, hardly lobed, 

 small. Corolla coriaceous, urceolate dilate at base .12 in. 

 long; lobes 5, thick edged valvate triangular, ovate, tube wool- 

 ly, hairv below stamens. Stamens 5 in the mouth, anthers 

 large, oblong. Style cylindric, rather stout, as long as the 

 tube. Stigma subglobose, grooved, large. Disc low but rather 

 thick, ovary very short. 



Johor, Sedenah (Eidley 13468). 



The buds of this plant are resinous and the stipules very 

 caducous. The flowers are practically umbellate with two or 

 three ovate, lanceolate bracts, about half as lono- as the pedicel. 

 It does not at all closely resemble any species known to me. 



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



