NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 301 
‘Corona fleshy at base attached to the corolla above with lanceolate 
retuse lobes shorter than the stamens. Anthers square, truncate with 
3 inflexed points. Vollinia pendulous oblong with a long slender 
pedicel. 
Hab. Pahang, Kwala Tahan, Seamund. 
LOGANIACEAE. 
Gaertnera ovata Ridley, n. sp. 
Woody shrublet. Leaves glabrous, broadly obovate, shortly 
cuspidate, base narrowed gradually; nerves 9 pairs pr ominent 
‘beneath, 9 in. long, 4 in. wide ; petiole winged to the base, .25 in. 
long, stout. Stipules connate rather large with a broad lanceolate 
point. Peduncles below the leaves slender, 3 in. long with 2 
branches and distant stipules forming a tube with the midribs pro- 
minent and ending in mucros as long as the tube, slender acute. 
‘Cymes small 1 in. long with about 6 short branches, the lowest under 
.o in. long. Flowers sessile about 4+ in a small head at the end of 
each branch. Calyx short, cup-shaped with very short points. 
Corolla .1 in. long, tube thick shorter than the lobes, the lobes ob- 
long round at tip, white, hairy at mouth of tube. 
Hab. Selangor, Semangkok Pass, Ridley. 
Gaertnera rigida Ridley, n. sp. 
Low shrub about 3 feet tall, quite glabrous. Leaves stiff, rigid 
drying grey, coriaceous, lanceolate acuminate, long narrowed to the 
base, smooth shiningabove with prominent midrib, beneath minutely 
papiliose all over;nerves 8 or 9 pairs with the nervules and reticula- 
tions prominent beneath, 9 in. long, 3.5 inches wide; petiole 1.25 
inehes longilattened above andslightly winged to thebase. Stipules 
75 inches long, forming a tube split on lower face half way down and 
prolonged into a lanceolate bifid point above. Inflorescences borne 
on long lateral branches 9 inches long bare except for a pair of 
narrow lanceolate acuminate leaves + in. long, .75 inches wide at the 
top subtending the inflorescence. Cymes 1 in. long of 3 branches. 
-Calyx-lobes very short. Flowers not seen. Fruit zlobose or double 
with one or two seeds .25 in. through. 
Hab. Dense forest, Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga, base of 
hill, Ridley. 
J was unable to find flowers of this species : in foliage it 
resembles G. lanceolata Ridl., but the mflorescence is very short. 
CONVOLVULACEAE. 
Ipomoea Pes-Caprae Roth. 
I was surprised to find a considerable sized patch of this sea- 
shore plant on a track leading to a saw-pit at Bukit Tangga. It was 
flowering and fruiting well. I have seen it some way from the sea 
R. A. Soc., No. 86 1922. 
