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minute conic. Females as in male but stamens reduced to 

 club-shaped staminodes. Ovary ovoid, glabrous narrowed to 

 a short style. Fruit " the size of a pea. black, round, shining/' 



Penang Hill, 2000 ft. Tiger Hill -(Ridley) male. Eoad 

 to Penara Bukit (female) (Curtis 244;). 



A very distinct little tree in its small caudate leaves with 

 very inconspicuous nerves. The lowest pair rises from near 

 the base showing a tendency to be triplinerved. I cannot 

 rind any species at all closely allied to it. 



LORANTHACEAE. 



Elytranthe rubra, Eidl. n. sp. 



Branches rather slender, with reddish grey bark and nu- 

 merous lenticels. Leaves subopposite. rather thin, chartaceous, 

 elliptic lanceolate, blunt acuminate, base cuneate, nerves 3 pairs 

 very fine as are the reticulations, both visible when dry. 8.5 in. 

 long. 1.5 in. wide, petiole .4 in. Cymes .75 in. long, branches 

 rather thick, flowers about 10 or fewer, sessile. Bract ovate 

 acute. Calyx tube cylindric .1 in. Corolla tube dilate up- 

 wards from base 1.T5 in. long, lobes 6 linear spathulate .4 in. 

 long narrow red. Stamens 6. 



Setul (Ridley 15238). 



Near E. a r en is. Dun. but the leaves are much thinner, 

 and conspicuously nerved when dry. the cyme-branches thicker 

 and the corolla much larger. 



Phacellaria malayana, Eidl. n. sp. 



Stems crowded in a tuft, seldom and little branched .3-4 

 in. long, .1 in. through, red, scurfy when young. Flowers soli- 

 tary or several together, usually two male to one female. Males 

 cushion-shaped with 4 small ^alvate acute lobes. Stamens 

 very small, disc large. Female tubular .1 in. long, lobes 4, 

 acute triangular, stigma capitate. Fruit oblong .22 in. long, 

 flattened crowned with the perianth lobes. Seed 1. flat with 5 

 grooves and plates protruding into fissures. 



Selangor, Gunong Mengkuang (Eobinson) at 5,000 ft. alt. 

 on a Lo ran thus. 



This genus is new to the Peninsula. The other three 

 species known are from Manipur and Tenasserim. This is 

 nearest allied to P. compressa, Benth., from Moulmein, differ- 

 ing in the less pubescent bigger branches and much lugger 

 flowers. The specimens collected by Parish, however, are 

 young and in poor condition. The fruit of no species has been 

 hitherto described. It resembles that of Henslowia in its hav- 

 ing the seed gTooved with 5 grooves which correspond to as 

 many shortly intruded plates, but the seed is flat and rather 

 thin, and the spaces between the grooves are rounded and not 

 much elevated. 



R. A. Soc, Xo. 82, 1920. 



