72 NEW AND EAEE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Memecylon Cantleyi, n. sp. 



A large shrub, bark of branches pale. Leaves thin, coria- 

 ceous drying greenish, elliptic, acuminate to both ends equally; 

 nerves 5 pairs, very faint on both sides, 3.5-4.5 in. long, 2-2.3 

 in. wide, j^etiole 4 in. long. Flowers few in axillary simple 

 cymes .5 in. long. Peduncle .15 to .2 in. long, rather thick 

 pedicels half as long. Calyx wide cupped, rather flat when 

 expanded, narrowed to base, truncate or very minutely dentate 

 .1 in. long, .15 in. wide, white with a. pale violet tinge. Petals 

 (cuspidate in bud) pale blue subquadrate shortly apiculate 

 below apiculate above, nearly .3 in. across. Stamens deep 

 violet, ovary with 12 ovules crowned by an elongate punctate 

 style. Fruit not seen (there is some in a capsule with one of 

 Maingay's specimens (which are all in flower but being de- 

 tached it is probable that they do not belong). 



Singapore; (Cantley) ; Garden jungle (Ridley 13012). 

 Malacca ( Maingay ) . 



This was named M. laevigatum, Clarke and 31. garcinoides 

 by King in Herb. Kew, but it seems to me abundantly dis- 

 tinct, not only in the longer, narrower leaves but in the much 

 larger flower. I have taken part of the description from Main- 

 gay's mss. notes. He adds that it is a remarkably elegant, 

 large shrub in flower. 



Memecylon longifolium, n. sp. 



Tree, branches with grey bark. Leaves elliptic, lanceo- 

 late, long, cuspidate tip blunt, narrowed to the rounded base 

 nerves about 20 pairs, the secondary ones being nearly as pro- 

 minent as the primary ones, but all slender and not prominent 

 inarching 4 in. from the margin, thinly coriaceous, light green 

 when dry, 7-8 in. long. 2-2.25 in. wide, petiole very short .05 

 or less. Flowers in very short .2 in. axillary sessile fascicles 

 about 10 in. a fascicle, very small pink, pedicels .05. Calyx 

 at first subpyriform with four short rounded lobes eventually 

 campanulate, truncate .1 in. long. Petals ovate triangular 

 subobtuse. 



Bindings, Lumut (Ridley 9475). Referred by King to 

 M. amplexicaule, Roxb., but the leaves are not cordate and the 

 flowers much smaller. It is certainly allied to this species as 

 also to heteropleurum. 



JVlemecylon gracilipes, n. sp. 



Small tree with slender, grey twigs, slightly winged below 

 the nodes. Leaves thinly coriaceous drying green, almost 

 sessile ovate, cuspidate base round, midrib beneath elevate as 

 are 4-5 pairs of conspicuous nerves depressed above inarching 

 .25 in. from the edge 2.5 to 3 in. long, 1.5 in. wide. Cymes 

 very slender 1-1.5 in. long, lower ones once branched, upper 



~ Jour. Straits Branch 



