NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 
MELASTOMACEAE, 
Melastoma mutica, 0. sp. 
Bush, branches terete covered with short flat processes, and 
larger ones lanceolate triangular acute and laciniate. Leaves un- 
equal lanceolate acuminate acute base hardly narrowed, above 
‘covered with fine appressed pubescence, beneath similar with longer 
hairs on the nerves; nerves 5, depressed above, elevate beneath, 
transverse nervules parallel numerous, 3-6 inches long 14-2 inches 
wide, petiole half an inch long densely hairy. Flowers few shortly 
stalked large rose pink. SBracts ovate to lanceolate cuspidate dense- 
ly hairy with lanceolate acuminate processes, half an inch long and 
as wide. Calyx tube 4 inch long ovotd densely finely covered with 
yellowish hairs. Petals cuneate obovate, apex broad rounded trun- 
cate, 14 inch long, 1$ inch wide. Stamens similar filaments as long 
as the anthers, shorter than the petals, anthers cylindric acuminate 
base bilobed, not prolonged, wrinkled. 
Selangor: Hulu Semangkok (Ridley). 
Allied to M. sylvaticum, Bl. Remarkable among our species 
in having the stamens all similar.. 
Octhocharis sylvestris, nN. sp. 
Small shrub, stem woody solid, erect 2 feet tall, about 38; inch - 
through glabrous, bark pale. Leaves ovate lanceolate or ovate 
acuminate glabrous except at the base, on both sides, and nerves 
two pairs rising from the base 7 inches long, 3 inches wide, petiole 
1-2 inches long hairy along the upper edge. Flowers in small 
axillary fascicles much shorter than the petioles, pedicels very short. 
Ovary glabrous urn-shaped. Sepals triangular mucronate, rather 
large spreading. Petals oblong broad. Stamens short 8. Anthers 
oblong obtuse, all similar, hairs hardly prolonged below, apices dis- 
tinct divaricate excurved, appendage solitary, conic very short, 
Capsule 4 inch long globose grooved, crowned with the calyx lobes, 
dehiscing irregularly. 
Malacca: Merlimau (N. Cantley) 9/2/86. Johore: Tanjong 
Kupang (6504), Mt. Austin (Ridley 12012). 
In wet places in woods. 
Phyllagathis cordata, n. sp. 
Stem hollow hairy. Leaves ovate cordate, abruptly acuminate, 
margins crenate subdentate, each tooth bearing a long red hair, 
nerves 9 radiating from the base, transverse nerves prominent be- 
neath above glabrous, beneath with scattered long hairs on the 
nerves and nervules, 9 inches long 7 inches wide, petiole covered 
with red hairs stout, 6 inches long. Inflorescence shortly panicled. 
peduncle nearly 1 foot long, panicle 4-5 inches long, with few short 
branches at base, above racemose. Flowers about 3 on a branch, 
all glabrous. - Bracts very small lanceolate. Calyx cylindric + inch 
long with 5 short lanceolate teeth. Corolla petals lanceolate. Sta- 
mens 5 subequal and similar, anthers subcylindric slightly acuminate 
Jour. Straits Branch 
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