238 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 
Serdang (Mhd. Aniff). Flowered in the Singapore Botanic Gar- 
dens, May 1911. | 
A very curious little species with remarkably narrow and 
elegant leaves, and very inconspicuous little flowers, which are dull 
reddish tinted white, and quite eglandular. 
STYRACEAE. 
Styrcx (Cordyloblaste) obovata, nu. sp. 
A stunted shrub, much branched with dark grey bark. Leaves 
alternate obovate rounded coriaceous base cuneate, nerves five pairs 
thin bifurcating, anastomosing far within the margin ys on both 
surfaces, 2 inches long 1 inch wide, petiole thick 4 inch long. 
Flowers in short axillary racemes half an inch long all pubescent 
silky, peduncle short. Bract ovate obtuse as long as the very short 
‘pedicel. Calyx 4 inch long goblet shaped with 5 very short rounded 
lobes, silky pubescent. Corolla 2 inch long, entirely pubescent 
outside and in, lobes oblong rounded half as long as the tube. 
Staminal tube adnate to the ‘corolla as far as the base of the lobes, 
and projecting beyond in fine broad truncate lobes, hairy within. 
Anthers small subglobose, about 60. Style stout very hairy about 
as long as the tube, stigma large capitate. Ovary and disc hairy. 
Perak: Gunong Kerbau (Aniff 5820) at 7000 feet altitude. 
The ‘smaller size of the flowers distinguishes this from S. 
Maingayt and 8. Scortechinvi, and the form of the leaves also from 
these and from S. confusa. 
SAPOTACEAE. 
Sideroxylon glabrum, n. sp. 
Tree, leaves broadly lanceolate base acuminate, apex blunt, 
coriaceous drying greenish, nerves slender 6 pairs, midrib stout 5 
inches long 2 inches w ide, petiole half an inch long. Flowers in 
tufts of 3 or 4 on the stem below the leav es, pedicels $+ inch long. 
Sepals orbicular 5 imbricate margins ciliate 4 inch long. Corolla 
at the base. Staminodes linear from a wider base adnate to the 
corolla. Ovary densely hairy. Style conic obtuse thick. 
Selangor: Sempang Mines (Ridley). 
Payena grandiflora, n. sp. 
A tree, young leaves ferruginous hairy, adults slabrous except 
for a few red pairs on the midrib, coriaceous thick oblanceolate 
acuminate at the base, apex blunt or shortly acuminate, above dull 
.slightly shining green, beneath pale glaucescent, nerves about 20 
pairs inconspicuous, midrib stout, seven inches long, three inches 
wide, petiole stout at base tapering upwards, 1} inch long. Stipules 
acuminate hairy caducous. Flowers in alubten below the leaves, 
pendulous numerous. Bracts small ovate chesnut hairy. Pedicels 
stout an inch long covered with yellowish red pubescence. Sepals 
Jour. Straits Branch 
