6 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 
teeth, about + inch long. Petals oblong lanceolate, minutely cus- 
pidate + inch long rose or white. Stamens 3 little longer than the 
petals, filaments as long as the anthers. Anthers yellow linear 
acuminate base bifid, apex acuminate. Style filiform shorter. 
Capsule funnel-shaped smooth on a thickened stalk, smooth 4 inch 
long, crowned with the triangular acute sepals. 
Kedah: Gunong Jerat (Ridley 5345). 
Near 8. Cyclaminella, Stapf., but much larger. 
Medinilla pendens, 0. sp. 
Hpiphytie with pendulous stems 4+ or 5 feet long slender, pale, 
and watered, 4 inch through. Leaves rather fleshy ovate acuminate, 
tip obtuse, base broad, nerves 3, midrib and two nerves from the 
base, barely visible 4 inches long 14 inch wide, penole, 4 inch long 
very thick. Peduncle stiff 14 ine long. Flowers 4 inch long, 
edicel #5 inch long. Calyx urn-shaped “with 5 small teeth. Co- 
rolla lobes oblong obovate as long as the corolla obtuse 4 inch long 
waxy white. Stamens 7, violet glabrous, filaments slender little 
shorter than the anther. Anther lanceolate acuminate nar row, with 
2 short curved processes in front at the base and one on the “back. 
Style short slender. 
Johore: pendent from trees overhanging the Panti river at 
Kota Tinggi. 
Allied to M. Hasseltii I think, but the long hanging stems and 
small flowers make it very distinct. 
RHIZOPHORACEAE. 
Carallia suffruticosa, n. sp. 
Shrub, branches slender shghtly ribbed glabrous. Leaves 
elliptic acute at both ends thin, glabrous margin closely set with 
short processes, nerves 12-13 pairs “of primary nerves, intermediates 
nearly as prominent, under surface of leaves dotted 3-5 inches long 
‘13-14 inch wide, petiole $ inch. Stipules lanceolate keeled 4 inch 
lone. Flowers in short axillary racemes, shorter than the petiole. 
Bracts persistent ovate keeled. Calyx i inch long campanulate 
lobes 5 lanceolate coriaceous keeled within acute. Petals linear ob- 
long lacerate fimbriate nearly to the base as long as the sepals. 
Stamens ten unequal, the longest opposite the sepals, filaments 
filiform. Anthers elliptic, shorter ones apiculate. Style stout sim- 
ple. Stigma capitate. Disc 5-lobed. 
Selangor: Dusun Tua (7371). Flowers white and yellow. 
Very distinct from anything I know, in its shrubby habit short 
racemes, and fimbriate lacerate petals. 
ni MYRTACEAE. 
Decaspermum montanum, n. sp. 3 
A shrub with pale bark. Leaves opposite coriaceous obovate 
obtuse narrowed at the base, 2 inches long by one inch wide, penni- 
nerved, nerves five inconspicuous, midrib prominent beneath, no 
Jour, Straits Branch 
