294 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 
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aceous, elliptic acuminate cuspidate; nerves 14 pairs prominent 
beneath, secondaries nearly as prominent, intramarginal nerve .1 in. 
from the edge, midrib prominent beneath; 6 to 8 in. long, 2.5 to 5 
in. wide; petiole thick, grooved, above. Corymb compound, cymes 
4 in. long and wide. Flowers numerous, congested at the branch 
ends; branches flattened, 4-angled. Calyx and pedicel club-shaped. 
.2 in. long. Corolla small calyptrate. Stamens short and rather 
few. 
Hab. Selangor, Semangkok Pass, track to Bukit Tegala, 
Ridley. 
The flowers were in young condition and may perhaps when 
fully developed be larger. In one tree the inflorescence bore 
numerous bodies like round flattened lobed fruits; these proved to. 
be flowers aborted by a number of galls in the ovary. The petals 
appear to be completely joined together so that it belongs to the 
calyptrate section, the curiously angled and winged branches and 
inflorescence branches is different from any other species I have 
seen. 
ARALIACEAE. 
Trevesia rufo-setosa Ridley n. sp. 
A shrub with the habit of Trevesia sundaica Miq. Leaf pal- 
mate of seven lobes, base cordate, lobes more or less elliptic shortly 
cuspidate, edges undulate with short upcurved thorns, above 
glabrous except the nerves, and centre red-hairy and covered with 
small raised dots apparently hair bases; nerves 9, two on the lowest 
lobes, whole about 12 inches long and wide, the lobes jeut down 
for 9 inches, and 3 to 4 inches wide, the lowest pair dilate on the 
lower edge at the base; petiole stout at the base and narrower up- 
wards, 2 feet long, densely covered with red brown bristly hairs 
nearly .2 in. long. Inflorescence 8 in. long, flexuous, stout with 
a few short branches densely covered with similar hairs. Flowers 
unisexual on the same inflorescence .25 in. across with pedicels .4 
in. long in umbels subsessile on the branches. Bracts linear acu- 
minate caudate, very narrow .5 in. long. Calyx obconic densely 
red hairy; limb very short and obscure, lobed. Corolla stellate,. 
spreading, lobes 5, triangular hairy beneath, coriaceous. Stamens 
5, glabrous; filaments thick at base as long as the corolla; anthers 
large ovate cordate. Style in female flowers rather tall cylindric; 
stigma bifid with two short lobed oblong arms recurved. Ovary 
5-celled. 
Hab. Hill forests. Selangor, Semangkok Pass at 2500 feet 
alt., Ridley. 
Nearest to 7. Beccarw Boerlage, of Sumatra; but the dense: 
indumentum of red brown hairs flattened at the base and acuminate 
covering the petiole and the whole of the inflorescence except the 
inner face of the petals, stamens, style and disc, is very distinct. 
The few stamens, 5 only, is also unusua 
Jour. Straits’ Branch. 
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