20 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 
Calyx short cup-shaped, edge entire. Corolla 1 inch long white, 
tube slender, lobes narrow linear 5; 4 inch long. Stamens 5, an- 
thers linear apiculate filaments short, all included in the tube and 
adnate to it above 4 of the distance from the mouth. Styles very 
slender, stigma clubbed. Fruit small globose or elliptic one-seeded, 
Seed globose bony. 
» Johore: Gunong Panti (Ridley 4177) ; Selangor: Bukit Hitam 
(Ridley 7413), Kwala Lumpur (10217) ; Negri Sembilan: Gunong 
Berembun (Cantley) and Bukit Kandang; Malacca: Bukit Tampin 
(Goodenough 1864). 
This plant is described by Cantley as 10 to 15 feet tall, the 
wood used in house building, and fencing, of a reddish colour and’ 
sinking in water. He gives the names of. Chiapet, and- Kambang 
Semangkok Jantan for it and Goodenough found it called Gading» 
Jantan in Tampin. (Gading is a common name for the small 
tree Rubiaceae such as Diplospora). 'The tree appears to be a true 
Coffee and has curiously been overlooked in the Material for a 
flora of the Malay. Peninsula, and one specimen (No. 10217) has 
been referred to by King to Lasianthus coriaceus which it slightly 
resembles in leaf, but the venation is quite different, the inarching 
nerves being very conspicuous. I have seen very few ripe fruit but 
al] I have seen are one seeded, the seed very hard and globose, with 
the embryo at the base. 
’ This is a new genus to the Peninsula flora but as the Coffees 
occur both in India and Java, it is not unexpected. Its crowded 
flowers, narrow linear petals ‘and one seeded fruit it 
from all others of this region. 
Becheria n. gen. 
A small branched shrub, with thin large leaves elliptic cus- 
pidate. Stipules ovate triangular. Inflorescence terminal com- 
pound cymose. Flowers small white. Bracts lanceolate to orbi- 
cular. Calyx lobes 4 orbicular enlarging after the fall of the 
corolla and becoming oblong obtuse. Corolla tube very short gla- 
brous without and within lobes valvate 4, ovate shorter than the 
tube. Anthers subsessile lmear acuminate 4 in the mouth of the 
tube. Style shorter clubbed entire. Fruit globose crowned: with 
the enlarged sepals woody, 2 celled, 2 ovuled. : 
Species 1, Malay Peninsula. 
B. parviflora, n. sp. 
A small shrub with pale bark and the habit of Adenosacme. 
Leaves elliptic cuspidate base shortly cuneate, glabrous, midrib 
depressed above, elevate beneath, nerves slender 12 or 13 pairs 
elevate beneath, secondary nerves very slender, 7 to 8 inches long 
34 to 32 inches wide, petiole + inch long. Stipules ovate triangular 
cuspidate nearly 4 inch long. Peduncle 1-2 inches long with 3 or 
4 divaricating branches pubescent, the branches sometimes cymosely 
branched again. Flowers very small $ inch long crowded in cymes 
Jour. Straits Branch 
