NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 3 
clawed an inch long 4 inch wide, densely covered with appressed 
red hairs. Stamens 3 very short, filaments red hairy at the base, 
anthers rounded shortly oblong, not longer than the claw of the 
petal. Style hairy, fruit not seen. 
Perak: Gunong Keledang (Ridley 96901). 
This beautiful plant might be B. Scortechinu of King of which 
I have seen no specimen but “taking the description, it differs in the 
flowers being panicled, on long pedicels, the buds ovoid not clove 
shaped, the longer calyx tube, caducous bracts and clawed petals. 
Bauhinia calycina, n. sp. 
Climber, young parts covered with red meal. Leaves broadly 
ovate or almost orbicular bilobed, lobes rounded cut about 4 way 
down, base cordate, glabrous, nerves 10 from the base, 3-5 inches 
long, 3-5 inches wide, petiole 13-2 inches. Flowers racemose large 
white, rachis red mealy. Pedicels 13 inches long. Bracts lanceo- 
late acuminate red pubescent. Calyx lobe 4-3 inch long, campanu- 
late lobes 5, linear acuminate acute red woolly 14 inch long. 
Petals little longer linear, glabrous. Stamens 3 thick angled, # 
inch long, filaments very short, base of anther retuse, all glabrous. 
Style short pubescent. Pod oblong cuspidate 7 inches long 2 
inches wide, stalked above the enlarged calyx tube, 14 inch long. 
Seeds four elliptic flat. 
Johore: Gunong Pulai; Selangor: Kwala Lumpur and Peta- 
ling; Negri Sembilan: Bukit Tanga (Napier), Bukit Kupayiang 
(Cantley), Seremban (Ridley 10047). 
Tendrils long curled, ““ Akar Kurutop Hitam.” Roots boiled 
for dropsy. 
A very remarkable plant from the very long calyx lobes, short 
petals and very short filaments with long thick anthers. Most 
nearly allied to B. Griffithiana, Prain. 
Crudia penduliflora, n. sp. 
Tree. Leaves with 4 alternate leaflets, apex not prolonged, 
leaflets distant elliptic cuspidate rounded at both ends nerves 6 pairs 
lowest ones smallest glabrous thinly coriaceous drying brown on both 
sides, 1 to 4 inches long, 14 inch wide, cusp 4 inch long, petiolule 
short stout, black wrinkled glabrous, 4 ‘inch long. Racemes simple 
pendulous 12 inches long, flowers small numerous, subdistant nearly 
sessile, 4 inch long. Buds ovoid. Calyx lobes + ovate glabrous. 
Petals 0. Stamens 5, filaments slender, anthers rounded elliptic. 
Pistil covered with red hairs conic. Sty ie filiform $ inch long. 
Malacca: foot of Gunong Mering, Mt. Ophir (Ridley 300 4), 
This plant differs from. any other known to me in its long 
simple racemes and small flowers. It appears also to have only 
five stamens. The nerves of the leaves are invisible above, beneath 
they are seen to interarch well within the margin, 
R, A. Soc., No, 61, 1912. 
