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igi5.] H. N. Ridley: Botany of Gtmong Tahan. i6i
EBENACEiE.
112. [Maba elegans, n. sp.
A small slender tree about lo feet tall, with drooping
branches covered with rather long stiff hairs. Leaves alternate,
elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed at the base, above
glabrous, smooth, beneath the midrib covered with long hairs,
nerves invisible, ^ inch long, ^ inch wide, nearly sessile, with
*a very small petiole. Flowers solitary, sessile or nearly so, on
the underside of the branches entirely silky hairy, \ inch long.
Sepals 4, ovate-rounded ; tube of corolla elongate bottle-shaped,
narrowed upwards; lobes lanceolate-obtuse, 3, hairy outside,
glabrous inside. Pistil club-shaped, hairy, shorter than the
tube of the calyx. Styles short, thick, glabrous; stigmas
subtriangular, toothed, white. Disc hairy. Staminodes filiform,
3, slender, shorter than the pistil. Male flowers not seen.
Kuala Teku woods behind the Camp.
Apparently allied to M. Beccarii, Hiern, of Borneo.
Altogether the smallest Ebony-tree I know, not much more
than a shrub, and with very small leaves and flowers.]
APOCYNACE^.
113. Alyxia angustifolia, n. sp.
Usually a slender climber in woods, suberect on the open
Padang. Stems dark brown. Leaves coriaceous, ellipticlanceolate,
blunt or subacute, glabrous, margin thickened,
midrib on the back very thick, channelled above, nerves
invisible on both surfaces, i to 2 inches long, \ inch wide, in
pairs or whorls of 3; petiole | inch long. Flowers in terminal
or axillary cymes, half an inch long, about 12 in a cyme;
peduncle and pedicels short, scurfy, pubescent, ribbed. Sepals
linear or lanceolate-linear, ^^ inch long, pubescent. Corolla
white, \ inch long, glabrous; tube slender, cylindric, dilated
slightly just below the lobes; lobes short-ovate, obtuse; mouth
of tube with a thickened ring inside, below white hairy.
Stamens 5; filaments very short; anthers tapering upwards,
lanceolate. Style not longer than the anthers, glabrous.
Stigma clubbed. Ovary white, villous. Fruit black, ellipticobovoid,
\ inch long.
Very common on the Padang, and in the woods, one of
the very few climbers there.
Allied to A pmnila, Hook fil., of Mount Ophir and other
parts of the Peninsula, but with very narrow stiffly coriaceous
leaves with invisible veins.
ASCLEPIADE.E.
114. DiscHiDiA ALBiDA, Griff. On trees in the Padang.
Flowers yellowish white with pink tips to the petals.
Distribution. Malay Peninsula, usually at high elevations.
115. DiscHiDiA cocciNEA, Gviff.; Ridl. op. cit. p. 315.
On trees on the Padang at 5,600 feet.
Distribution. Common on the Peninsula at high elevgi-
tions,