10 NEW: AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 
white, base crimson, anthers small oblong yellow. Style slender 
white 14 inch long. Fruit oblong globose green, inside white, 
inches long, 2 ches across, crowned with the sepals. Seeds 3 or 
more brown half an inch long. [Embryo conyolute with a long 
radicle. 
Singapore: Botanic Gardens Jungle (6243 of my collections). 
This fine tree differs from P/. sundaica, Miq. in its entire leaves, 
oblong in shape, larger stamens and shorter petals. 
The fruit is apple-shaped and has a peculiar turpentine-like 
odour. 
CORNACEAE. 
Alangium Tutela, n. sp. 
A small sized tree. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate cuspidate base 
cuneate alternate glabrous, thinly coriaceous drying grey, nerves 
hardly conspicuous above strongly elevate beneath 7 to 8 pairs, 
transverse nervules and reticulations distinct, 4 to 6 inches long, 
2% to 23 inches wide, petiole half an inch long, stout strongly trans- 
versely rugose. Flowers in short axillary cymes of four or five 
flowers, peduncle very short 4 inch long, pedicels as long. Bracts 
caducous minute ovate acuminate. Calyx tube $ inch long nar- 
rowed towards the base ribbed, limb saucer-shaped entire short. 
Petals linear oblong 5 recurved white, mealy outside half an inch 
long. Stamens nearly as long as the petals 6 lnear pubescent. 
Style shorter clubbed. 
Singapore: Ponggol (kt idley 5082). 
This is the genuine “ Kayu Tas” the properties of which ac- 
cording to the Malays s are such that tigers will flee from any one 
carrying a piece of its wood. Sticks of the tree are often sold for 
this purpose and Malays travelling in the forests often wear a small 
piece of the wood on a chain as a protection. 
The tree appears to be rare, and I am not sure that the Sing- 
apore plant has not been introduced from elsewhere. 
The short few flowered cymes and small leaves distinguish it 
from any other species known to me. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 
Viburnum villosum, n. sp. 
A shrub, the branches covered with thick yellow hairs. Leaves 
opposite elliptic to lanceolate thinly coriaceous base rounded, apex 
acuminate, above glabrous, or in young leaves with yellow hairs on. 
the midrib, beneath cinnamon coloured with yellow hairs softly 
villous, 5- 6 inches long 24-3 inches wide nerves 4-6 pairs petiole 
villous, becoming at length glabrescent ? inch long. Inflorescence 
umbellate, terminal cymose 14-2 inches long villous, peduncles rather 
stout # inch long, branches short. Flowers small sessile green. 
Calyx tube cylindric hairy, lobes ovate acute. Corolla tube short 
Jour, Straits Branch 
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