188 NEW AND EAEE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Leda chrysea, Eidl. n. sp. 



Stem imbranchecl, woody, creeping and ascending, a foot 

 tall, erect part 6 in. long. Leaves rather fleshy, lanceolate or 

 elliptic lanceolate acuminate, base shortly narrowed, glabrous, 

 raphides very numerous and small, drying black, midrib 

 grooved above, 5 in. long, 1.75-2.75 in. wide, petiole .3 in.- 

 .4 in. long. Spikes 2, terminal, little branched, many flower- 

 ed 2.5 in. long. Bracts minute, persistent. Calyx dilate at 

 base, lobes lanceolate acuminate .1 in. long. Corolla yellow 

 .25 in. long, tube straight, cvlindric, lips .1 in. long; antber 

 cells parallel, oblong on the same level. 



Selangor, Ulu Gombak (Eidl.). 



Near L. flava, Eidl. and L. lancifolia, Eidl. but the flowers 

 much smaller and lower lip sborter. 



PIPERACEAE. 



Piper oreophilum, Eidl. n. sp. 



Erect, shrubby, slender, closely brown hairy on branches. 

 Leaves ovate acuminate rather abruptly, base cordate equally 

 lobes short round, upper ones oblong-lanceolate acuminate, 

 base entire, rounded, 4 in. long 1.75-3 in. across, sparsely hairy 

 above ; nerves above and beneath with conspicuous nervules and 

 reticulations hairy, main nerves from base 5, above and as- 

 cending pair, nervules numerous conspicuous transverse, petiole 

 hairy 1 in. long, sheathing about a third of its length. Male 

 spikes slender .5 in! long on a very slender hairy peduncle as 

 long. Bracts suborbicular with undulate edge. Female spike 

 1.2 in. long, thick, cvlindric. Ovary sunk in rachis, style rather 

 long, distinct. Stigmas short, broad recurved 3. Drupe pulpy 

 .15 in. sunk for one third of its depth, broadly globose, shortly 

 distinctly beaked. 



Pahang, Gunong Tahan, in the gullev on the wav to the 

 plateau about 4,000 ft. (Eidley 16106). 



Allied to P. stylosnm. This is possibly the imperfectly 

 described subrubrispicum, De Candolle, which I have not seen. 



Piper Kurzii, Eidl. n. sp. 



Erect, shrubby, branched. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous 

 elliptic lanceolate acuminate, base cuneate, nearly equilateral 

 nerves fine, elevate both sides, 2 slender ones from base, 2 pairs 

 stouter above the lowest a little above the base of the midrib : 

 nervules nearly horizontal, numerous fine 4-7 in. long, 2-3 in. 

 wide, petiole .1 in. Male spike slender 1.75 in., peduncle .75 in. 

 Bracts oblong, round. Female spike 1.75 in. long, pedunclo 

 .1 in. Flowers rather scattered, short sunk, rachis hairy. 

 Stigmas small, thick, round 3. Drupes small .13 in. ellipsoid 

 with a short point. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



