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lets pubescent. Flowers 4 or 5 in small tufts, axillary on 

 pedicels iV inch long, very small. Sepals 2, lanceolate, 

 acute. Petals 3, orbicular broader. Stamens 5, 3 in a 

 column with 2 smaller ones apparently abortive. Anthers 

 oblong, appressed together, no pistillode. Female flowers 

 rather larger on longer pedicels, sepals and petals similar. 

 Fruit sub-globose with a flattened top, not lobed, smooth 

 i inch through. 



Perlis at Kanga, (15232). A very small leaved spe- 

 cies looking like a Breynia. 



Gl. obscurum, Bl. Bangtaphan (Keith). 



Distrib. Malay peninsula and islands, and China. 



Breynia coronata. Lankawi (Curtis, 2555). Distrib. peninsula. 



Breynia Keithii, n. sp. 



A shrub, branches smooth, brown, branchlets rather 

 close. Leaves alternate, elliptic, obtuse or subacute, gla- 

 brous, black when dry and glaucous beneath, f-1 inch 

 long, i inch wide, nerves 4 pairs, petiole i inch long or 

 less. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers 3 together, 

 cymose shortly pedicelled, minute, Bracts linear, acumi- 

 nate, setaceous minute, Calyx cupular, entire in flower. 

 Fruit small, globose, i inch long when dry, pedicel equally 

 long, apex not-flattened, terminated by 3 short setaceous 

 styles. Calyx split into 5 unequal, ovate, triangular, 

 acute lobes, more than half the width of the fruit, seed 2 

 in each cell, yellowish white, finely pubescent, outer face 

 broad, rounded, inner face, forming an acute angle. 



Kedah, Alor Sta (14888), Setul at Bukit Bunga 

 (14887). 



This differs from the common Breynia reclinata, 

 in its smaller leaves and flowers and small fruit with the 

 5 lobed calyx, and pubescent seed. In reclinata the calyx 

 shews obscure signs of lobing, but in B. minor, the lobes 

 are quite distinct and acute. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



