S6 NEW AND RAKE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Selangor; Semparig mines (Ridley). 



Lasianthus villosus, n. sp. 



A hairy shrub. The branches petioles, stipules, bracts 

 midrib on both sides and nerves beneath villous. Leaves ellip- 

 tic, long-cuspidate acuminate, base narrowed, cuneate or more 

 commonly rounded, blunt, glabrous above except the midrib, 

 beneath villons-hairv, nerves 18 pairs, elevate beneath, nervules 

 undulate transverse with some reticulations, 4-6 in. long, 1.5 

 to 2 in. wide, petiole .1 in. long. Stipules lanceolate, acu- 

 minate golden-villous, .2 in. long. Flowers few on a stout 

 peduncle 2 in. long with lanceolate acuminate bracts .15 in. 

 long. Calyx villous, tube subglobose, lobes -1, triangular short, 

 glabrous inside. Corolla glabrous .15 in. long, tube short 

 cylindric, lobes 4 lanceolate as long, a mass of hairs in the 

 mon tli. Fruit globose, hairy. 



Pebak, Tapah (Ridley 14074). 

 Lasianthus (§ Mephitidia) glaberrimus, n. sp. 



A fetid shrub with slender branches quite glabrous. 

 Leaves membranous, lanceolate acuminate caudate, base cune- 

 ate drying black, nerves faint, very fine about 9 pairs, inarch- 

 ing boldly .1 in. from the edge, reticulations wide, hardly con- 

 spicuous 3.4-4 in. long, 1-1.25 in. wide, petiole .05 in. long. 

 Stipules lanceolate, caducous. Flowers very small two or three 

 in axillary fascicles sessile. Calyx lobes very short, tube cam- 

 panulate. Corolla .05 in. long, tube slender, lobes valvate, 

 ovary trilocular with 1 ovule in each cell. Style simple, stigma 

 bifid. Fruit blue obconic .1 in. through Pyrenes 2. 



Selangor; Semangkok Pass (Ridley 8574). Malacca; 

 (Maingay). Pexaxg; West Hill and Moniot's Eoad (Curtis 

 964). Kedah; Kedah Peak (Ridley 5549). 



Clarke suggested that this was a Saprosma and says it is 

 not a Mephitidia but it does not seem to me to resemble a 

 Saprosma at all. 



Morinda elliptica, n. sp. M. citrifolia var. elliptica, King and 

 Gamble in Materials. 



It seems most extraordinary that this plant by far the 

 commonest species in the Mala} T Peninsula, and most abundant 

 in newly cleared ground should be up to the present time 

 nameless, but indeed it is so common and well-known in its 

 habitats that hardly any botanist has troubled to collect speci- 

 mens. There are only one or two poor specimens in the Kew 

 herbarium and I think none at the British Museum. These 

 specimens have been mistaken for the very different Morinda 

 citrifolia, L. or of a variety of it M. elliptica a small tree or 

 shrub with pale bark about 12-14 feet tall occasionally larger. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



