66 NEW AND BARE MALA VAX PLANTS. 



flowers. Calyx broad, eampanulate .2 in. across, truncate 

 edge recurved, base abruptly narrowed to a slender pseudo 

 stalk .3 in. long. Petals calyptrate. Stamens .4 in. long. 

 Style .5 in. long. 



Selaxgok, Rantau Panjang, July. 1914 (C. B. Kloss). 



This is perhaps most nearly allied to E. inophylla, Roxb. 



but the nerves of the leaves are fewer and the panicle shorter, 

 laxer and fewer flowered. 



Eugenia cordifoliata, n. sp. 



Branches terete, pale coloured. Leaves elliptic with a 

 short, blunt point, base narrowed, blunt, slightly cordate, 

 membranous, drying blackish above, paler beneath, nerves about 

 18 pairs nearly invisible above, slightly elevate beneath in- 

 arching .1 in. from the edge. 4 in. long 1.5 in. wide, petiole 

 short, thick .1 in. long. Panicle terminal lax, fi in. long, 

 peduncle 2 in. long, branches angled, the lowest 3 in. long, 

 branchlets crowded at the tip with pear-shaped buds narrowed 

 to a slender pseudo-stalk. Calyx lobes ovate. 



Peiuk; without locality (Scortechdni). 



This is one of the two quite distinct plants quoted and 

 labelled by King as representing his Eugenia Sirettenliainiana. 

 The other species which as represented in Herb. Kew, (all I 

 have seen) collected in Larut by Kunstler, Xo. 7590, is very 

 poor specimen in bad condition, and does not appear to be an 

 Eugenia at all. The description of E. Swettenhamiana how- 

 ever, applies better to this specimen than to Scortechini's plant 

 which is only in young bud. This latter plant is very distinct 

 from any species I have seen in the rounded, cordate almost 

 peltate leaf-base. It may perhaps be allied to E. densiflora 

 but more developed specimens are required before deciding on 

 its affinities. 



MELASTOMACEAE. 



Melastoma scabrum, n. sp. 



Shrub about 5 ft. tall, branchlets sparingly covered with 

 small ovate lanceolate acuminate scales, very varied in size 

 from minute irregular ones to lanceolate subulate ones, very 

 short and appressed, on the leaves almost reduced to slight 

 roughness, rather longer on the petiole. Leaves narrow, lan- 

 ceolate, subacute, base rounded or shortly cuneate, above 

 scabrid with short thornlike processes, nerves 5 with larger 

 scales, 4-4.75 in. long, 1.25 to 1.50 in. wide ; petiole .6 in. 

 long. Flowers as big as those of J/, decemfidum. pedicels A 

 in. long. Calyx .4 in. long, eampanulate, sparsely covered 

 with lanceolate, acuminate scales, longest at the top, lobes 

 linear acuminate with scales, long linear subulate outside. 



Jour. Straits Braneb 



