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M. repandus, Muell. Perlis, Bukit Lagi (14936). 



Distrib. India, Ceylon, Malay peninsula and Islands, 

 China, New Caledonia. 



Mallotus cuneatus, n. sp. 



Branches red brown, flattened, dilated upwards, scab- 

 rid. Leaves opposite, unequal, obovate or sub-rhomboid, 

 acuminate, coarsely and irregularly toothed, basecuneate, 

 blunt, herbaceous, nerves two from the base, above 4 pairs 

 spreading, nervules horizontal, conspicuous, all meeting 

 in an intramarginal nerve, above glabrous, beneath 

 pubescent on the nerves, and especially the midrib, 

 minutely pellucid punctate, with two glands on the base 

 of the basal nerves on the upper surface. Biggest leaf 

 7 inches long, 4 inches wide, smaller 4 inches long by 

 2 inches wide. Racemes axillary, very slender. Males 

 about 5 inches long, pubescent. Flowers iV inch across, 

 thres or four together with small ovate, acuminate bracts. 

 Sepals 3, ovate, acute, hairy. Stamens numerous, short, 

 crowded. Females spikes, 3 inches long, pubescent, 

 flowers solitary, sepals as in males. Ovary grey hairy. 

 Stigmas short, thick, plumose recurved, red, on a short 

 thick style. Capsules trilobed, i inch across, green hairy 

 with stellate tufts of hairs, sprinkled over with short black 

 processes and minutely glandular, shortly stalked. Seeds 

 subglobose, smooth, blackish brown. 



Perlis, Bukit Lagi. Flowers white (15190). 



Gelonium tenuifolium, n. sp. 



Tree, Leaves alternate thin, membranaceous, glabrous, 

 elliptic, acuminate* acute, base cuneate, nerves 6 pairs, 

 transverse nerves conspicuous, 7 inches long, 3 \ inches 

 wide, petiole f inch long. Flowers in short axillary tufts, 

 rachis stout, to inch long, 2 or 3 flowers together. Males 

 i inch across on a short thick pedicel. Sepals 3, thick 

 ovate, petals 2, spathulate with thin margins, ciliate. 



R. A. Soc, No. 59, I9II. 



