178 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



*8 to 16 in. ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, vaginate in the lower half, "4 to *8 

 in. long. Heads in a pedunculate tei^minal panicle 5 or 6 in. long, its 

 branches about half an inch to one inch long, thick, each bearing at its 

 apex a head of three or four sessile flowers confluent by their bases ; the 

 common peduncle of tlie panicle with a sheathing basal bract "5 in. long. 

 Calyx truncate. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Scortechini ; King^s Collector 2164!. 



2. LuciNAEA RiDLEYi, King n. sp. Epiphytal ; young branches 

 thinner than a goose-quill, terete, glabrous, dark-brown when dry. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, quite glabrous, obovoid- oblong to narrowly 

 elliptic, acute or shortly and abruptly acuminate, much narrowed at the 

 base; upper surface brown when dry, the lower paler minutely punctate, 

 reticulate ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, spreading, faint, the intermediate 

 almost as prominent, the midrib bold; length 4 to 6 in.; breadth TS to 

 2"5 in. ; petioles '75 to 1 in. Stipules lanceolate, oblong, sub-acute, 

 connate and cartilaginous at the base, '5 to "75 in. long. Peduncle soli- 

 tary, terminal, about •] in. long, each bearing a dense head about I in. 

 in diani. (when dry), consisting of 8 to 12 sessile flowers. Calyx sub- 

 quadrangular, the limb truncate. Corolla "75 in. long, thick, ovate- 

 oblong in bud, the narrowly oblong lobes as long as the tube. Fruit 4* 

 to '6 in. long, crowned by the wide truncate calyx-limb. 



Singapore : Lohh. Perak : Scortechini 306, 639 ; Wray 446 ; Ridley 

 2923; King's Collector 2162, 6052, 7836.— Distrib. Borneo, Beccari 

 3505. 



3. Lucinaea membranacea, Kingn. sp. An epiphytic woody shrub ; 

 young branches terete, thinner than a goose-quill, covered with a dense 

 coat of minute rusty deciduous pubescence. Leaves membranous, oblong- 

 elliptic or narrowly elliptic, acute or shortly acuminate, narrowed (rarely 

 rounded) at the base, upper surface quite glabrous, brown when dry ; the 

 lower paler, puberulous on the midrib ; main-nerves 8 or 9 pairs, faint, 

 spreading; length 3'5 to 5 in.; breadth 1*25 to 2'25 in.; petioles "1 to 

 •15 in. ; stipules broadly ovate, carinate, pubescent, and vaginate near the 

 base, "5 to '75 in. long. Peduncles unequal, terminal or in fascicles of 2 

 or 3, the longer 1 in. long, the shorter as little as 2 in. long, all dilated 

 at the apex and pubescent, and each bearing a head about '75 in. in 

 diam. consisting of 8 to 10 sessile flowers. Calyx-\imh truncate. Corolla 

 thick; the tube cylindrical, '15 in. long, hairy insidfe in its upper half ; 

 the limb with 5 lanceolate reflexed glabrous lobes shorter than the tube, 

 the tips of the lobes incurved ; anthers 5, sessile, linear. Style exserted, 

 hairy in the upper half. Fruits subglobular, confluent at the base, '15 

 in. in diam. 



Perak: Scortechini 283; Curtis 2016; Ridley 5543; Wray 832, 177, 

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