NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS, 29 
ovate subobtuse nearly half an inch long 5, the two inner ones 
whiter and more petaloid on the edge than the outer ones. Corolla 
over half an inch long, lobes narrow acuminate 10, very little longer 
than the rounded tube, hardly in two whorls slightly imbricate, 
silky hairy within. Anthers 20 hairy pale brownish oblong, base 
bilobed, apex prolonged into a long acuminate point, half as long 
as the petals. Style half an inch long, apex curved pale green, 
ovary brown discoid. Fruit cylindric rufous, an inch long. Seed 
albuminous. 
Singapore: Sungei Morai (6497) ; Malacca : Panchur (Good- 
enough 1268). 
Described mainly from a tree in the Botanic Gardens Sing- 
apore believed to have come from Sumatra, specimens of pines fave: 
been distributed under the number 1137 ae ae 
‘This fine species has-been confused with Payend een 
Hook. fil. by King and Gamble in the Materials, from which it 
differs in its stiffer harder leaves, which become whitish beneath 
when old, and its very much larger flowers and long stout pedicels.» 
APOCYNACEAE. 
Ervatamia coriacea, n. sp. 
Tree about 20 feet tall. Leaves oblong obtuse slightly nar- 
rowed at the base thickly coriaceous dark green above paler beneath, 
nerves 15 pairs beneath dotted over with raised glands, 5 to 7 inches 
long, 14-3 inches wide, petiole half an inch long,. axillary glands 
forming a cup stipuliform. Compound cymes 3 inches long, 
peduncles 2 inches long, pedicels one inch rather thick. Calvx. 
short campanulate lobes subacute 4 inch long. Corolla tube half an. 
inch long, lobes oblong lanceolate obtuse white 4 inch long. Sta-. 
mens anthers linear oblong mucronate filaments rising from about, 
the middle of the tube, decurrent to the base of the tube. Ovary 
earpels cohering cone-shaped narrowed upwards to the stigma. 
Stigma globose with 2 arms. 
Selangor: Sempang Mines. 
Allied to #. corymbosa, King and Gamble but very coriaceous 
completely glabrous. The plant much resembles 1. dichotoma of 
Ceylon but the flowers are smaller. 
ASCLEPIADEAE. 
Gymnema hirta, n. sp. 
Stem 4 inch through brown hairy, leaves ovate Hike rounded. 
apex acuminate abruptly, dark green above shortly hairy with 
dense red hairs on the nerves, beneath densely roughly hairy on the 
midrib and nerves, nerves conspicuous beneath 4 pairs inarching, 
with few conspicuous secondary nerves, 3$ to nearly 4 inches long 
2 inches wide, petiole 1 inch long densely brown hairy. Flowers in-:* 
dense axillary tufts, pedicels hairy § inch long. Calyx lobes linear’ 
R. A. Soc,, No. 61, 1912, 
