XEW AXD EAEE MALAYAN PLANTS. 87 



Leaves narrow elliptic or oblanceolate shortly acuminate and 

 long narrowed to base, dull green rather fleshy drying black, 

 nerves about 7 pairs: 5 in. long. 1.25 in. wide, petiole .4 in. 

 long. Peduncles slender 1.25 in. long. Head of flowers .25 

 in. long, green, flowers white. Fruit head oblong green hardly 

 pulpy .5 in. long, common all over the Peninsula in cleared 

 ground among lalang. and more bushy on rocks by the sea to 

 complete the account of this plant additional specimens are 

 badly needed. It is quite different from Citrifolia which has; 

 large ovate round leaves, much larger heads of flowers, and 

 oblong white pulpy fruit as big as the fist. This species I 

 have never seen really wild. It is common in Campongs. and 

 is the true Mengkudu of the Malays. It may be a native of 

 India. 



Coelospermum biovulatum, Clarke MSS. Herb. Kew. 



Leaves thin, coriaceous, not fleshy elliptic abruptly cuspi- 

 date acute or shortly acuminate, base cuneate unequal, glabrous, 

 shining above 6 in. long, 2.? 5 in. wide, nerves hardly visible 

 above, beneath conspicuously elevate inarching .2 in. from 

 edge, reticulations elevate, petiole .? in. long. Stipules short 

 acute. Peduncle 1.5 in. long with 4 or 5 branches .25 in. 

 long bearing o-6 terminal umbellate flowers. Calyx puberul- 

 ous. campanulate with rather a wide rim .12 in. across. Co- 

 rolla in bud clubbed fusiform. A in. tube .3 in. slightly dilate 

 upwards lobes linear recurved, more than as half as long, 

 yellow. Stamen filaments long, projecting. Anthers long, 

 linear curved ovary 2-celled. ovule one in each cell on the 

 middle of the septum. 



Malacca: (Maingay So. 3053). 



This has been referred by Hooker to C. scan dens, Bl. and 

 to C. truncatum by King. It totally differs from either species 

 in which the texture of the leaves is so fleshy that they dry 

 black and hardly show the nervation. It is apparently a 

 very rare plant as no one but Maingay has collected it. 



Psychotria rudis, n. sp. 



Shrub, not branched. Leaves elliptic lanceolate, long 

 acuminate, long narrowed to base, membranous sparsely hairy 

 on nerves and nervules above thickly sprinkled with hairs on 

 back, nerves 10 pairs elevate beneath 6-8 in. long. 2-2.5 in. 

 wide, petiole slender, hairy .T 5 in. Panicle terminal, hairy 

 branches in fruit, slender. Drupe black, oblong 4 angled when 

 dry .24 in. long pyrenes inner face elliptic, flat^ back rounded 

 with a keel. Flowers not seen. 



Kedah:: Kedah Peak 2,800-4,000 alt. (Bohinson). 



This has the habit of P. Griffith ii but the leaves are thin- 

 ner and quite hairv. 



E. A. Soe., No. 79. 



