140 NEW AND KAEE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



A handsome bush, distinguished by its villous 4-ovulod 

 ovary and pubescent leaves. 



Chodat in the Bulletin de VReroier Bovssier, iv. p. 255, has 

 published a revision of this genus since it was described by 

 King in the Materials for a flora of the Malay Peninsula, and 

 made several corrections and additions : — 



X. ellipticum, King, is not the species described by Miquel 

 under that name, but a plant of the Malay Peninsula which is 

 now called X. Kingii, Chodat. 



X. eurhynclium, King, is also not Miquel's plant, and is 

 renamed X. verrucosum, Chodat (I.e. 263). 



X. glaucum, Wall. Chodat separates King's plant from Wal- 

 lich's, as X. micro car pum, saying that it has " Fructus parvus 

 nee verrucosus nee costatus " which is an excellent description 

 of Wallich's type of X. glaucum. King's plant from Trang is 

 absolutely identical with Wallich's X. glaucum. 



He describes two new species. 



X. hebecarpum, Chodat (I.e. 263) based on imperfect fruiting 

 specimens collected in Pangkor (Curtis 1639) with large 

 velvety fruit. 



X. discolor, Chodat (I.e. 257). A small tree with leaves glaucous 

 beneath, and rather large white flowers, collected by me at 

 Seletar and in the Gardens' jungle, Singapore. 



Garcinia clusiaefolia, n. sp. (Guttifene). A tree, with black 

 branches not angled. Leaves stiffly coriaceous, obovate, apex 

 obtuse, base cuneate, nerves very fine inconspicuous above, in- 

 visible beneath, 5-5*5 inches long, 2*25 to 3 inches wide, dry- 

 ing greenish ; petiole *5 inches long, stout, not wrinkled. Male 

 flowers in fascicles upon axillary tubercles 10 or more in a 

 fascicle, very small, *1 inch long : bracts ovate, numerous : 

 pedicels thick, -25 inches long. Sepals 4, 2 outer coriaceous 

 orbicular concave, 2 inner thinner obovate oblong. Petals 

 oblong, obtuse, as long as the sepals. Stamens connate into a 

 subconic mass, not lobed : anthers sessile, minute, 2 -celled, cells 

 separated by the broad subtriangular connective. Pistillode 0. 

 Female fowers and fruit not seen. 



Pahaxg: at Wrav's camp on Gunong Tahan (Ridley 

 16242). 



Allied to the lowland swamp-loving 67. oancana, Miq. but 

 distinct in the more finely and numerously veined foliage, 

 much shorter and thicker petiole, smaller flowers, and the 

 connective of the anther triangular, with the cells at the point 

 and so closer together, and not quadrate as in 67. oancana. 



Garcinia pyriferum, n. sp. (Gutiiferce). A tree; bran chiefs 

 yellow, angled. Leaves coriaceous, drying light greenish, 

 elliptic, subacute, shortly narrowed at the base, 3*5 inches to 



Jour. Straits Branch 



