100 Flma of the Malayan Peninsula. 



lower puberulous on the midrib, otherwise glabrous, laxly reticulate ; 

 midrib bold on both surfaces ; main-nerves 6 or 7 pairs, oblique, bold 

 on the lower surface, faint on the upper; length 3*5 to 5"5 in.; breadth 

 1'5 to 2"5 in. ; petiole '2 to "25 in. Stipules very short, connate into a 

 sheath; mouth with short bristles. Cymes one to three at the apices of 

 the branches, about 1 in. long (longer in fruit), laxly 3-flowered, the 

 peduncle angled, puberulous, with small lanceolate bracteoles in whorls. 

 Flowers 'h in. long; their pedicels about the same. Calyx funnel- 

 shaped ; the mouth with 4 deep linear-lanceolate spreading lobes. Corolla 

 twice as long as the calyx, tubular, expanding at the mouth ; lobes 4, 

 oblong, blunt; throat with a ring of hairs. Stamens 4, included. An- 

 thers curved, oblong ; their filaments attached to the tube. BisTi coni- 

 cal. Ovary 2-celled, 2-ovuled. Fruit ellipsoid, smooth, "65 in. long ; the 

 remains of the calyx *2 in. long, blue when ripe. Seed solitary. 



Perak: Scortechini 511, 670 ; Kings Collector 4138, 5020. 



3. Saprosma ternatum, Hook. fil. in Bth. & Hook. fil. Gen. Plant. 

 II. 131 ; Fl. Br. Ind. III. 193. A glabrous shrub ; young branches 

 rather thinner than a goose-quill, pale when dry, compressed. Leaves 

 often in whorls of three, thickly membranous, elliptic or elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, rarely oblanceolate-elliptic, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, 

 the base cuneate ; both surfaces pale-brown when dry, the upper shin- 

 ing ; the lower dull and paler ; main-nerves 7 to 9 pairs, oblique, little 

 curved, pale and prominent on the lower surface, the reticulations trans- 

 verse and rather distinct on the lower surface only; length 4 to 8 in. J 

 breadth 1*5 to 325 in.; petioles '4 to "6 in. long, with many short un- 

 equal bristles at their bases and inside the connate setosely-toothed 

 stipules. Cymes solitary or fascicled, from 1'5 to 3"5 in. long, (longer 

 in fruit) axillary, pedunculate, or branching from the base ; the branches 

 lax, spreading, sparsely flowered ; the bracteoles few, linear. Flowers °4 

 in. long, on pedicels varying from "2 to 6 in. long. Calyx *1 in. long, 

 shortly campanulate, the mouth wide and with 4 broad blunt teeth. Co- 

 rolla '3 in. long, salver-shaped, puberulous ; the tube wide ; the limb 

 •35 in. across with 4 or 5 broad reflexed lobes. Fruit ovoid or sub- 

 globular, crowned by the rather large calyx-teeth, '35 in. in diam.; 1- 

 seeded ; seeds ellipsoid. Kurz. For. Fl. Burma II. 29. Paederia ternata, 

 Wall. Cat. 6248 Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall., II. 520 ; DC. Prod. 

 IV. 471. Mephitidea sp., Griff. Notul. IV. 267 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 476. 



Perak : Scortechini 1163 ; Wray 2262, 2907, 2929, 3943 ; King's 

 Collector 1975, 2764, 3052, 4006, 4069, 6760, 8491. Pahang: Uidley 

 2225. Selangor: Ridley 8236. — Distrib. Andaman Islands, Burma, 

 Khasia Hills, Sumatra, Java. 



4. Saprosma Ridleti, King & Gamble. A shrub ? Young branches 



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