NEW AXD BARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 69 



I cannot find in fact that this common and conspicuous 

 plant has ever received any name at all. I therefore propose 

 for it the name Alio morphia malaccensis as it is particularly 

 common in Malacca and give a description of it. 



Allomorphia malaccensis, n. sp. 



A tall plant, usually about 6 feet tall and often more with 

 a slender, woody stem, glabrous all over except for a reddish 

 (when dry) meal over the panicle and petioles. Leaves ovate, 

 acuminate, dark green, edge entire, base very shortly cuneate r 

 nerves 5 from base 3 very prominent and 2 outer ones very 

 slender, the transverse nervules conspicuous, elevate, 10 in. 

 long and 6 in. wide, petiole 3-4 inches long. Panicle 6 to 12 

 inches long and nearly as wide pyramidal, branches lax spread- 

 ing subwhorled. Flowers umbelled on the ends of the branch- 

 lets about 10, or in distant pairs of umbels sessile on the main 

 branches. Flowers small .2 in. long. Bracts lanceolate .1 in. 

 long, caducous. Calyx funnel-shaped, short with 1 short, ovate 

 lobes. Petals smaller, white or greenish. Stamens yellow .1 

 in. long, anthers acuminate, bases divaricate. Capsule .1 in. 

 long, ovoid narrowed below the dilated calyx limb. 



Malacca, common in woods: Xegei Sp-aibilax. Tampin 

 hill: Selangor, Eantau Panjang and Snngei Buloh : Peeak. 

 Gunong Kerbau at 4,000 ft. (Robinson:). A form with leaves 

 more lanceolate ., 



Allomorpliia subsessilis, Craib of Siam also belongs to this 

 genus, but I should exclude A. umhellulata, Hook', hi. of 

 Tenasserim. A. setosa, Craib (Siam) A. liispida, Knrz and 

 A. Beccariana. Cogn. and .1. GrijfitJiii, Hook. ill., both of the 

 latter seem to be species of Phyllagathis. 



Anerincleistus, Korth. 



The type of this germs is .1. liirsutus, Korth. to which I 

 add A. macranthus, King, and A. pauciflorus, Kidl. They are 

 all small trees or tree-like shrubs with a few umbelled flowers 

 in the axils. The venation of the leaves is .cpute peculiar. 

 The outer slender pair of nerves rises from the base of the 

 blade, the second pair rises from the midrib as much as an 

 inch from the base in A. pauriflorus and occasionally the lowest 

 pair does the same. • This nervation occurs also in Pomatos- 

 toma. A. sublepidotuSj, King, is very different from the other 

 species in its panicle of many flowers in whorls but the in- 

 florescence is axillary and the venation of the leaves identical, 

 so I retain it in the genus as well as A. glomerulatux, King 

 and A. Beccari. A. cordata. Stapf, and .1. anisopliyllus, Stapf* 

 of Borneo, though some of these may be Pomatostomas. I 

 exclude all the rest included under this o'enu> by King and 

 myself formerly. 



B. A. Soc. : No. 79. 



