2 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS, 
TILIACEAE. 
Elacocarpus reticulatus, n. sp. 
Branches black. Leaves oblanceolate, apex shortly acuminate, 
long acuminate at the base, margins thickened bluntly serrate, reti- 
culations conspicuous, coriaceous, 24 inches long, ¢ inch wide, petiole 
+ inch long. Flowers in short terminal racemes shorter than the 
leaves nodding. Bracts linear oblong obtuse. Pedicels + inch long 
silky. Sepals $ inch long, 4 linear’ oblong obtuse silky. Petals 4 
oblong truncate shortly laciniate hardly longer than the sepals, 
silky. Stamens 10, filaments very short. Anthers linear pubes- 
cent. Ovary short conic silky. ‘Torus silky short. 
Selangor: Ulu Kali Mountain, 3,500 feet (Burn-Murdoch). 
Allied to Hlaeocarpus punctata, King. 
AMPELIDEAE. 
Pterisanthes pulchra, n. sp. 
Stem slender wiry arachnoid. Jower leaves trifoliate, leaflets 
lanceolate acuminate, lateral ones oblique, central one 24 inches 
long, # inch wide, lateral ones smaller, upper leaves simple ovate 
cordate acuminate 2 inches long, 14 inch wide, all deep green 
bullate above with solitary hairs on the centre of the bullae, midrib 
hairy, beneath densely covered with ferrugineous elevated masses 
of hair, margins slightly undulate, nerves 4 pairs in the cordate 
leaves, petiole half an inch long rufous hairy. Inflorescence op- 
posite the leaves with a slender peduncle 14 inch long arachnoid, 
bearing 2 slender branches, one forming a tendril 3-4 inches long, 
the other bearing a flattened sinuate spike 5 inches long on a 
secondary peduncle about the same length all slightly arachnoid 
hairy. Spike undulate sinuate cut to the rachis about 4 times, 
+ inch wide green, or reddish, rachis hairy. Male flowers not seen. 
Females scattered globose. 
Selangor: Sempang Mines climbing over rocks. 
A most charming little climber of which I only found a single 
plant in flower. 
LEGUMINOSAE. 
Bauhinia cuprea, n. sp. 
Climber with long curled tendrils branches slender red tomen- 
tose. Leaves ovate entire or shortly bifid with short blunt lobes a 
quarter of the length of the leaf, lamina 3 inches long, 24-3 inches 
wide, above glabrous beneath red ferruginous with closely appressed 
silky hairs, nerves 7 elevated on the back rising from the base, 
petiole 1 inch long swollen at the top subglabrous. Flowers pani- 
- cled, in a 2 inch panicle, few red, pedicels 2 inches long red pubes- 
cent. Calyx tube cylindric narrow half an inch long, lobes pubes- 
cent boat-shaped 2 inch long equal. Petals broadly ovate rounded, 
Jour, Straits Branch 
