64 NEW AND BABE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Selangor, Sempang mines. (Ridley 15635). Perak. 

 Batang Padang district 300 to 500 ft. (Kunstler 7972). 



This has been confused with S. rubiginosa, Vent,, but is 

 very distinct in its much larger leaves, much longer petioles, 

 broader sepals, and short, broad 2 seeded carpels. It is also 

 much less hairy and the pedicels much shorter ami the flowers 

 are in a simple raceme. 



MYRTACEAE. 



Eugenia formosa, Wallich. In the Materials for a Flora of the 

 Malay Peninsula, King gives this species as occurring in Perak, 

 the only specimens however, so labelled by him that I have 

 seen are certainly the much smaller plant. E. /iscudo-formosa. 



E. formosa, Wallich. is a big tree with axillary red flowers 

 borne below the leaves on the branches while pseudo- formosa 

 is a shrub or at most a small straggling tree with white ter- 

 minal flowers, the venation of the leaves quite different and 

 the thick white corky petiole is very characteristic. The very 

 narrow-leaved form which grows in Penang, by Richmond pool 

 is the Jambosa lanceolate/, of Miquel, it is also my E. nemoricola 

 but is I think now only a form of pseudo-formosa. 



An Eugenia I collected in Selangor at Klang (No. 10200) 

 more nearly resembles Wallich's formosa than anything else I 

 have seen from the Malay Peninsula, but as it differs from 

 the type in many respects I prefer to leave it doubtful until 

 further specimens of the plant should be obtained. 



Eugenia limnoea, n. sp. 



Tree with red flaky bark. Leaves elliptic coriaceous, base 

 very shortly narrowed, tip long, acuminate, blunt, nerves very 

 fine and numerous distinctly raised beneath inarching close 

 to the edge, 5.5 in. long, 2 in. wide, petiole .3-.L in. long. 

 Panicle terminal 2 in. long, 2.5 in. wide, dense, many flowered 

 on a peduncle 1.5 in. long. Calyx campanulate with a slender 

 pseudo-stalk .2 in. long and as wide; lobes short rounded. 

 Petals free, orbicular glandular .1 in. long. Stamens .3 in. 

 long. 



Open low lying, damp country. Province AYellesley. 

 Xibong Tebal (Ridley 12783) Krian (Ridley 9378). Perak 

 (Scortechini). Pexaxg, Batu Feringhi (Ridley 12576). 



This plant has been identified as E. densiflora, Duthie by 

 King and what appears to be identical is E. oblongifolia var. 

 rooasta, King, collected in Perak by Scortechini. 



It has nothing to do with E. oblongifolia, Duthie. E. 

 limnoea is allied to E. densiflora and appears to replace it in 

 the northern part of the Peninsula. It differs in the flowers 

 being only half as long, and the nerves, nervules and reticula- 

 tions being very fine and close. The infra-marginal nerve lies 

 close to the edge of the leaf, instead of a long way from it. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



