so ■ Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Penang: Curtis iOO. Selangor: Ridley 14<22a. Fkv.^k: Wr ay -il 57 ; 

 Bidley 7186; Ya^ip 204; Scortechini. 



A distinct species distinguished by its short bushy habit, and its large leaves 

 tapei-ed to a broad cordate-auriculate base. 



14. IxoRA Scortechini, King & Gamble, n. sp. An unbranclied 

 shi^ub about a foot in height : the stem as thick as a goose-quill, pale- 

 browu, rather rough. Leaves large, almost sessile, coriaceous, broadly 

 oblaiiceolate, sub-acute or blunt, narrowed from about the middle to the 

 rounded or cordate base ; upper surface brown when dry and somewhat 

 shining ; the lower pale, reticulate and dull ; main-nerves 8 to 12 pairs, 

 slightly prominent on both surfaces, curving upwards, interarching ; 

 length 55 to 9 in.; breadth 2 to 3 in.; petioles about '1 in. long or 

 absent ; stipules very short, broadly triangular and with an abrupt 

 linear point. Cymes terminal, about 2 in. long (including the short 

 peduncle), the branches short, puberulous. Calyx neai'ly '1 in. long, 

 cylindric, with 4 very broad short blnnt teeth. Corolla-tube 1 tol'25in. 

 long, narrowly cylindric, glabrous ; the limb '5 in. aci'oss with 4 blunt 

 broad oblong spreading lobes. Fruit fusiform, deeply 2-grooved, smooth* 



Penang : Curtis 40[). Province Wellesley : Bidley 6992. Perak; 

 Scorlichini 1277 ; Wray 4157 ; King's Collector 3120. 



15. IxoRA STRiCTA, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10: Fl. Ind. 1, 379. A large 

 shrub, everywhere glabrous : young branches thicker than a crow-quill, 

 dark-brown, shining. Leaves thinly coi'iaceous, lanceolate or elliptic, 

 lanceolate, rarely elliptic, acute or acuminate, the base cuneate; upper 

 Tirface olivaceous w hen dry, the lower brown ; main-nerves 7 or 8 pairs: 

 obsolete on the upper surface, faint and interarching on the lower ; 

 length 2'5 to 5 in. ; breadth 1*25 to 2 in. ; petiole '15 to "2 in.; stipules 

 •2 in. long, triangular, with broad bases and long linear points. Cymes 

 almost sessile, terminal, corymbose, dense, 2 or 3 in. in diam., bracteoles 

 minute. Calyx under '1 in. long, cylindric, bi-oadly 4-lobed or sub-entire. 

 CoroZZa-iM&e narrow, cylindric, '8 in. long; the limb '4 in. across, its 4 

 lobes oblong, sab-acute or obtuse, spi'eading or retlexed. Fruit broadly 

 fusiform, smooth. DC. Prod. IV. 486 ; W. & A. Prod. 427 ; Wight Ic. 184 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burma, II. 26; Wall. Oat. 6123; Hook. fil. fil. Br. Tnd. III. 

 l45. I. coccinea, Bot. Mag. 169. I. alia, Roxb. 11. cc ; Wight Ic. 707. 

 Wall Cat. 6122. /. blanda, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 100; DC. 1. c, 487. 

 I. incarnata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 379 : DC. I.e. 486. L crocata, Lindl. in 

 Bot Reg. t. 782 ; DC. I.e. 486. I. rosea, Wall. Cat. 6124 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 2428, (not of Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 398). I. amoena, Wall. Cat. 

 6121 D.E.F.G.; Don, Gen. Syst. III. 571; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 146. I. densa, Wall. Cat. 6150, in part. 



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