144 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



1. Scaphium Wallichi, R. Br., only known from one gathering 



in Martaban in Walliclr's collection and described usually as 

 Sterculia scaphigera, Wall. Cat. 1130. I have seen no flowers 

 of this species which has much larger leaves than the com- 

 moner species, >S T . afjine. 



2. Scaphium affine, Ridl. {Sterculia affine Masters). This plant 



is the " Kembang Semangkok " of the Malays and occurs in 

 Singapore, Malacca and Pahang. Pierre's Sterculia scaphi- 

 gera (Fl. For. Cochinchine, t. 201) may be this species but the 

 flowers have not been seen. 



The species is very distinct in its small short-tubed flowers 

 with a very short stalked staminal column quite glabrous. 

 The inflorescence is very tomentose. 



3. S. Beccarianum, (Pierre I.e.) is a native of Sarawak, in 



Borneo, and has quite glabrous flowers more resembling those 

 of S. longiflorum. I found fallen fruits and leaves of what I 

 take to be this species in the Ma tang forest. The fruit which 

 has not been described is thin and green, 5 inches long and 

 over 1*5 inches deep, much shorter and broader and quite blunt 

 at the tip. The seed was an inch long. 



4. Scaphium linearicarpum, (Sterculia linearicarpa, Masters) 



a rare Malacca tree, belongs to the genus also. 



Pterygota Roxburghii, Schott and Endl. Melet. p. 32 (Sterculia 

 alata Roxburgh) (Sterculiacece) is given in King's Materials as 

 a native of the Malay Peninsula on the strength of a specimen 

 in Scortechinfs collections without locality. The tree is a 

 native of Southern India and the An damans. It has been in- 

 troduced from the Calcutta Gardens and largely planted as a 

 road side tree in Singapore and Penang, and pehaps Scorte- 

 chinni's specimens are not from a wild plant. Xo one else has 

 found it wild, and it would be advisable to leave it out of our 

 Flora until we get additional evidence of its being a native tree. 

 The genus Pterygota of which there are several species in 

 Africa, is a very good one, and distinct from Sterculia. 



Buettneria brevipes, n. sp. (Sterculiacece). A glabrous woody 

 climber. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, base narrowed 

 truncate, nerves five pairs conspicuous on both surfaces as are 

 the reticulations, inarching within the margin, 4*5 inches long, 

 2 inches wide: petiole *2 inches long. Cymes numerous, 

 slender, axillary, 1 inch long ; pedicels umbellate, very slender, 

 minutely pubescent. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, *3 inches 

 long. Petals about as long as the sepals, base obcuneate with 

 2 short points at the upper angles, apex caudate. Staminal 

 tube short, broad, cylindric : anthers small, oblong. Ovarii 

 small, ovate, conic 5-lobed bluntly with scabrid angles. Fruit 

 not seen. 



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