190 NEW AND BARE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 



1.1 in. Male spike slender, cylindric, blunt 1 in. long, 

 peduncle 1.5 in. slender. Bracts round, glabrous, stamens 2, 

 filaments long as bracts, anther oblong, globose. In fruit, 

 peduncle 1.5 in., spike of fruit about 1 in. long, curved into 

 a circle or horse-shoe, with numerous crowded drupes sessile in 

 cup-shaped pits, subglobose with a short round stigmatic base, 

 orange yellow. 



Perak, Gunong Berumbun near Telom (liidley 11013). 



This is a very curious and striking pepper, erect and 

 herbaceous with leaves like a Begonia and bright yellow drupes 

 on a rachis curved into a circle. I cannot identify it with any 

 of De Oandolle's incompletely described species. 



LAURINEAE. 

 Cryptocarya tenuifolia, liidl. n. sp. 



Tree. Branchlets rather slender, velvety-brown. Leaves 

 thin, nearly membranous, oblong cuspidate, base shortly nar- 

 rowed beneath glabrous, nerves 9 pairs, slender, elevate 'beneath 

 and pubescent, above nerves slightly elevate and midrib chan- 

 nelled, nervules slender, irregular, inconspicuous, reticulations 

 lax, 7 in. long, 2.5 in. wide, petiole .2 in. long, velvety. Pani- 

 cles very slender, axillary 1-4 in. long', pubescent. Bracts small, 

 linear, oblong. Flowers sessile, pink, .05 in. Perianth tube 

 obconic, lobes 6 ovate, blunt all appressed, hairy outside, lobes 

 pubescent within. Stamens in rows 1 and 2 with ovate an- 

 thers and sparsely hairy slender filaments, anthers 2-celled, 

 glands large, fleshy, blunt. Ovary narrow, conic, style slender, 

 stigma very small. 



Selangor, Ulu Gombak (Ridley) March 9, 1915. 



Distinct in its thin leaves and very slender branched 

 panicle of sm'all flowers. 



Beilschimedia tonkinensis, Eidl. n. sp. B. glomerata var. ton- 

 binensis, Lecomte, Fl. Indo-ehina v. 149. 



Moderately large tree. Leaves membranous, obovate to 

 oblanceolate, glabrous, blunt or subacute. Cymes axillary 

 pubescent .75 in. long. Bracts orbicular silky, falling off very 

 early. Perianth campanulate, hairy inside and out, lobes ob- 

 long, blunt 6.2 in. long. Stamens 1st row, filament long 

 hairy, slender, anther 2-celled, with a short terminal apiculus, 

 row 2 apparently abortive, eglandular or with minute glands 

 at base, row 3, absent. 'Staminodes small, ovoid. 



-Setul (Kidley 15465). 



Cinnamomum velutinum, Eidl. n. sp. 



Small tree. Branches closely softly yellowish woolly to- 

 mentose. Leaves opposite above, ovate to elliptic acuminate 

 base round, slightly unequal or slightly narrowed, coriaceous, 



Jour. Straits Branch 



