NEW AND EASE MALAYAN PLANTS. 81 



Gardenia elata, n. sp. 



A very big tree nearly 100 ft. tall. Leaves subeoriaceous 

 oblaneeolate, apieulate, base cmieate, nerves 17 pairs, sub- 

 horizontal, with transverse nervules all elevate beneath, 9 in. 

 long, 3.5 in. wide, petiole 1 in. long. Stipules connate in a 

 tube with a bifid unequal limb, .2 in long. Flowers solitary, 

 terminal subsessile. Calyx tube funnel-shaped .3 in, limb 

 spathaeeous prolonged on one side into an oblong lobe .5 in. 

 long. Corolla tube 3 in. long, lobes oblong spathulate tip 

 rounded, orange color. Stigma thick fusiform clavate. 



Singapore, Bukit Timah (Ridley 11332). Perak, 

 Selama (Wray 4266). Borneo, Baram (Hose 229). 



Entirely glabrous except the very young leaves which are 

 pubescent. 



Petunga conifera, n. sp. 



A slender tree about 30 ft. with few spreading horizontal 

 branches 4-angled. Leaves coriaceous, dark green, elliptic 

 cuspidate, shortly narrowed at the base, nerves prominent 

 beneath 7-9 pairs, nervules very fine and inconspicuous, 6-9 

 in. long, 3-5 in. wide, petiole thick .5 in. Eaceme dense .5 

 in., few flowered, cone-like, 4-angled heads. Bracts ovate, 

 coriaceous ciliate along the edge, nearly as long as sessile 

 flowers. Calyx obconic with 5 short broad triangular lobes 

 densely woolly hairy at tips .15. Corolla .15 in. long tube 

 short, thick glabrous outside, pubescent within, lobes oblong 

 blunt as long as the tube, hairy at tips. Anthers linear, sessile 

 on the mouth of tube. Style as long as calyx lobes, stigmas 

 2, thick linear blunt, all pubescent. 



Apparently rare. Singapore in the Garden Jungle. 

 (Ridley 10722). 



Timonius hirsutus, n. sp. 



Small shrub with slender purplish brown twigs, young 

 parts with long white hairs. Leaves membranous on the ends 

 of bare shoots, lanceolate acuminate, base rounded, nerves 7 

 prs. elevate beneath sparsely short-hairy on nerves above, and 

 sparsely hairy beneath, nerves and midrib with dense appressed 

 hairs 3-4 in. long, .5-1.25 in. wide, petiole very hairy .12 in. 

 long. Stipules triangular elongate, acuminate, setaceous, 

 glabrous .1 in. Cymes hairy axillary in the uppermost axils 

 .6 in. long. Peduncle slender .25 in. long. Cymes in pairs 

 3-flowered, outer flowers, with pedicel .1 in. long, central flower 

 sessile. Calyx very small, campanulate, lobes linear as long 

 as tube. Corolla white .25 in. long, tube very slender, lobes 

 very short oblong, blunt, white, silky all over but the back of 

 the lobes long-bearded. 



R. A. Soc, No. 79. 



