Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 115 



Penang: at 1500 feet; Curtis 760. Perak : Ridley 9726. 



A very distinct species and not resembling L. cyanocarpus Jack, to which some 

 authors have reduced it. It is much more nearly allied to L. suhinaequalis, King 

 & Gamble. 



7. Lasianthus pilosus, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VI. 506. 

 A shrub or small tree ; young branches about as thick as a goose-quill ; 

 covered like the petioles and undersurfaces of the leaves (and often the 

 stipules and inflorescence) with very dark short rusty tomentum, some- 

 times tinged with green. Leaves coriaceous, dark olivaceous-brown when 

 dry, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, the apex sub-acute or shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate, the base sub-cuneate or rather rounded ; both sur- 

 faces boldly and transversely reticulate when dry; the upper sparsely 

 pilose or glabrous except sometimes the depressed faint midrib, hirsute; 

 the lower sub-glabrous or sparsely hairy between the prominent ad- 

 pressed-tomentose main-nerves, the midrib bold on the lower surface, 

 depressed and glabrous on the upper ; main-nerves 9 to 13 pairs, curved, 

 ascending; length 4 5 to 6 in.; breadth 1*25 to 2*5 in.; petiole "1 to '3 

 in. ; stipules triangular-lanceolate, acute, hairy, about "1 in. long. Cymes 

 glomerulate, sessile, few-flowered, longer (sometimes shorter) than the 

 petioles. Flowers aessUe; bracts shorter than the calyx, hirsute. Calyx 

 about "2 in. long, cupular-campanulate, hirsute outside, with about 5 

 triangular teeth. Corolla 5- to 7-cleft, dirty purple, shortly campanu- 

 late. Fruit blueish-black and ultimately glabrous, sub-globular, not 

 longer than the persistent calyx-lobes; pyrenes 5 to 7. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 182. L. setosus, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VI. 506; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I.e. 181. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.T>.) 2918 ; Maingay {K.B.) 869 ; C timing 239; 

 Hervey. Perak : at elevations of about 5000 feet ; Wray 876. Johore : 

 Ridley 1U80. Sblangor: Ridley 823]. 



VAR. angustifolia, King & Gamble; branches more hirsute and with 

 greenish-brown tomentum ; leaves rather membranous, their lower sur- 

 faces sparsely and shortly pilose between the nerves, 4 or 5 in. long and 

 1 to 1*15 in. broad; stipules lanceolate. 



Malacca: Griffith; Maingay. Perak : Scortechini 374? — Distrtb. 

 Burma. , 



VAR. grZu&ra, King and Gamble ; leaves with only 9 to 11 pairs of 

 nerves, their upper surfaces quite glabrous even on the midrib, the reti- 

 culations not depressed and not very distinct. 



Selangor : Ridley 7424. 



8. Lasianthds RiDLEYi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub ; youno- 

 branches, petioles and under surfaces of the midribs of the leaves densely 

 and softly pubescent, ieaws membranous, narrowly elliptic, somewhat 



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