NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 297 
P. pauciflora Ridley, n. sp. 
A small glabrous tree. Leaves thin, elliptic lanceolate, long 
acuminate, acute, long narrowed to the base; nerves 6 pairs in- 
arching; 4 to 6 in. long, .5 to 1.5 in. wide; petiole slender, .5 in. 
long. Stipules triangular, cuspidate. Corymb very lax, 1.5: in. 
long with three very slender branches one inch long bearing cymes 
of three or more flowers on filiform pedicels .5 in. long. Bracts at 
base of branches stipuliform rather large. Calyx-tube subglobose 
with 4 short lobes. Corolla’ white, “tube very slender .5 in. 
long, lobes 4, oblong blunt, .2 in. long. Stamens as long; anthers 
linear twisted. Style projecting for .5 in. long. Stigma gradually 
clavate. Fruit globose erowned with the tubular calyx. 
Hab. Dense forests on limestone rocks. Selangor, Batu 
Caves, Dec. 1920, Ridley. : 
Alhed to P. graciliflora Wall. but differing in the lanceolate 
leaves with very much smaller cymes and fewer flowers, more 
slender and smaller, and anthers as long as the corolla-lobes. 
Psychotria lanceolaria Ridley, n. sp. 
Slender shrub, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate acuminate, long 
narrowed to the base, membranous; nerves 10 pairs, slender forming 
bold arches within the margin, 6 in. long, 2 in. wide; petiole very 
slender 1.5 1n. long. Stipules ovate ac suminate, 12 in. oe Cyme 
1 in. wide and as long; peduncle .25 in. long; branches few and few 
flowered; bracts and branch bases lar ge like the stipules. Flowers 
small on very short slender pedicels. Calyx cup-shaped with 4 
short ovate acute points. Corolla .1 in. long, tube longer than calyx 
silky within, lobes as long as tube oblong blunt. Fruit .2 in. long, 
globose, very obscurely 4-ridged. 
Hab. Selangor, Batu Caves, Ridley. 
Near P. minutiflora Ridley and rostrata but the larger flowers 
and differently shaped calyx distinguishes it from the former and 
the narrow leaves and more condensed eyme from the latter. 
Bey ehotrea atroviridis Ridley, n. sp. 
Shrub 12 in. tall; stem hairy. ‘Leaves oblanceolate-obovate, 
coriaceous glabrous; midrib prominent, nerves 11 pairs prominent 
on both sides, 7 in. long, 4.25 in. wide; petiole .5 in. long, thick. 
Stipules oblong. Cymes 3, terminal 1 in. across. Peduncle 2 in. 
long. All puberulous. Flowers many, white, very shortly pedi- 
celled. Calyx cup-shaped with 5 short ovate blunt lobes. Corolla- 
tube as long, lobes oblong, blunt. Fruit ellipsoid shghtly flattened 
with 12 ribs, .25 in long. 
Hab. Negri Sembilan, top of Bukit Tangga, at 2500 it. alt., 
fidley. 
Allied to P. stipulacea ha quite dwarf, almost a ieee: the 
leaves larger and the inflorescence puberulous. 
R. A. Soc.;, No. 86 1922. 
