192 NEW AND RARE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 



slender, few, glabrous 5.5 in. long, 2.5 in. wide, petiole .25 in. 

 long. Panicles small 1.5-2.5 in. riisty-tomentose, brandies 

 very short, flowers small, subumbelled on short .1 in. long 

 pedicels, outer lobes much shorter than inner ones rounded. 

 Stamens very short, oblong, anthers nearly sessile, base hairy. 

 S'taminodes clubbed, hairy at base. Pistil ovoid, style slender. 



Lanka \vi, Kerap (An iff) 15473. 



Resembles N. Kingicma but the Leaves arc thinner, the 

 panicles much smaller, the anthers broad subquadrate almost 

 sessile glabrous except the hairs at the base, the staminodes 

 clubbed, glabrous except the base and pistil ovoid, not flask- 

 shaped. 



Lindera concinna, Ridl. n. sp. 



Shrub glabrous except the young parts, coppery silky. 

 Leaves oblong, ovate tip rounded or shortly blunt, acuminate 

 base round or very shortly narrowed, stiff coriaceous glaucous 

 beneath, triplinerved with one or two pairs of nerves ascending 

 from upper part of midrib, transverse horizontal aervules very 

 numerous, .close and fine, with fine raised reticulations. 1.75- 

 2.5 in. long, 1-1.25 in. wide, petiole wrinkled .12 in.-. 15 in. 

 Indu'llules few on short .1 in. thick hairy peduncles, 2- 

 nowered. Flowers sessile. Perianth tube very short, lobes 

 6, narrow, oblong blunt, inner ones broader and longer, gla- 

 brous. Stamens 9. filaments long narrow, hairy, anthers 2- 

 celled glabrous, subovate. Drupe not seen, pedicel obconic, 

 hairy with persistent perianth lobes. 



Pahano-, Gunong Tahan (Robinson 5455) at 5000 ft. 

 (Ridley 16108), 



Allied to J,, rufa, Gamble, but the leaves more coriaceous 

 oblong, ovate and not acutely acuminate, much less hairy; um- 

 bellules peduncled, filaments much longer and hairy. 



Lindera caudifolia, Ridl. n. sp. 



Small tree with slender branches, quite glabrous except 

 the young leaves and raceme. Leaves alternate, thin, char- 

 taceous, coriaceous, elliptic, lanceolate, base rounded or blunt, 

 bluntly caudate, glaucous beneath, bright green above, nerves 

 6 pairs, very fine and inconspicuous inarching within the edge 

 minutely areolate reticulate beneath, young leaves finely silky 

 beneath, older with the midrib above channelled pubescent, 

 adults quite glabrous 2.25-3 in. long .75-1 in. wide, petiole .1 

 in. Racemes axillary pubescent .1 in. long with about 5 

 peduncles. Bracts oblong, small, silky. Umbellule .05 across 

 containing one flower, peduncle slender .1 in. Bracts 4, orbi- 

 cular glabrous. Perianth lobes 6, white. Stamens 9, anthers 

 2-celled ovate, filaments slender, glands small. Pistillode 



Jour. Straits Branch 



