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very short, lobes 4 ovate triangular, blunt. Stamens 2, ob- 

 long with very short filaments. Ovary conic with a short style 

 and small capitate stigma. 



Selaxgor; Gunong Mengkuang at 5,000 ft. (Robinson), 



APOCYNACEAE. 



Alstonia micrantha, n. sp. 



Branches slender. Leaves opposite, coriaceous oblong ab- 

 ruptly short, caudate, base shortly cuneate, nerves very fine 

 parallel very numerous, secondary ones as conspicuous joining 

 in a fine intramarginal vein close to the edge 4-4.5 in. long, 

 1.5-1.5 in. wide, petiole .25 in. long. Panicles axillary slender 

 3 inches long, branches distant 3 or 4, about an inch long 

 either bearing at the tip secondary branches or simple um- 

 bellate with numerous small flowers, very shortly pedicelled. 

 Bracts small, ovate. Calyx-tube very short, campanulate lobes 

 rounded, ciliate. Corolla .05 in. long, tube cylindric slightly 

 dilate in the middle, lobes oblique, oblong lanceolate more than 

 half as long as tube, glabrous (apparently pink) 5 oblong 

 scales deflexed in mouth of tube. Stamens just below the 

 mouth 4, anthers ovate lanceolate shortly sagittate and fila- 

 ments short. Disc thin, flat annular undulate. Ovary simple 

 conical, glabrous, style very slender cup-shaped. 



Selangor; Pantau Panjang (Kloss). 



Micrechites. 



In King's and Gamble's description of this genus in the 

 Materials p. 504, two species are given, viz. M. polyantha, Miq. 

 and M. elliptica, Hook. fil. Of the latter the Malay form is 

 given as a variety *Scortechinii, based on a plant of which I 

 have only seen a poor specimen. It seems however, to be 

 quite different from the Himalayan species M. elliptica and 

 so I separate it as M. Scortechinii both leaves and flowers are 

 considerably bigger than in Melliptica. M. polyantlia, Miq. as 

 described by King and Gamble appears to comprise at least 

 3 species exclusive of the true plant of Miquel. 



M. furcata, Ridl. n. sp. 



A rather stout climber, stems slightly angled. Leaves 

 chartaceous, coriaceous elliptic or elliptic lanceolate, bluntly 

 acuminate, base narrowed, nerves 14-18 pairs, secondary nerves 

 nearly as conspicuous, all fine, slightly elevate inarching close 

 to the edge, reticulations fairly conspicuous 3.5-5 in. long, 

 1.5-2 in. wide, petiole .25 in. long. Cymes axillary and ter- 

 minal on the lateral branches, when fully developed about 2 

 in. long and about 1-2 in. wide, dense-flowered, peduncles 

 and branches angled, glabrous, terminal branches pubescent. 



R. A. Soc, No. 79. 



