116 Flwa of the Malayan Peninsula. 



oblanneolate, sub-acute, tapering in the lower third to the slightly 

 rounded base ; both surfaces olivaceous when dry ; the upper glabrous, 

 shining, with the midrib and nerves slightly prominent; tlie lower paler 

 with pi'ominent transverse reticulations, downy between the veins; main- 

 nerves 8 or 9 pairs, slightly curved, ascending, thin but distinct on tlie 

 lower surface like the midrib ; length 7 to 8 in ; breadth about 2'5 in.; 

 petiole about "2 in.; stipules linear, hirsute. Glomeruli sboiter than 

 tlie petioles, bearing a few flowers bidden amongst numerous linear 

 bracts with many pale spreading hairs. Calyx sessile, "15 in. long, nar- 

 rowly campanulate ; the tube glabrous ; the lobes 5, acuminate, erect, 

 covered outside with long stiff white hairs. Oorolla and fruit unknown. 

 Singapore : Ridley 3620a. 



9. Lasianthus FLA.VICANS, King & Gamble, n. sp. Young branch- 

 es thinner than a goose-quill, clothed with dense short yellowish-brown 

 deciduous tomentum like the petioles. Leaves thickly membranous, 

 uiirrowly elliptic, the apex acuminate, the base cuneate ; upper surface 

 olivaceous-green, glabrous except the lower part of the midrib, the 

 nerves indistinct, shining ; lower surface darker and with much short 

 minute pubescence, especially on the 5 or 6 pairs of sharply ascending 

 bold main-nerves and conspicuous transverse veins; length 5 to 7 in.; 

 breadth 1'25 to 2 in.; petiole "3 to '35 in. short; stipules shorter than 

 the petioles while in flower (longer "in fruit), oblong, blunt or acute, 

 ad pressed to the stem, pubescent. Glomeruli about as long as the pe- 

 tioles, few flowered, bearing numerons linear very pubescent bracts 

 shorter than the flowers. Flowers few, sessile or nearly so, 'S in. long. 

 Calyx narrowly campanulate, glabrous, constricted below the 4 large 

 triangular, spreading sparsely hirsute teeth. Corolla twice as long as 

 the calyx and exceeding the bracfs, clavate in bud, glabrous outside 

 except for a few hairs on the back of the lobes, villous inside, salver- 

 shaped, the limb with 4 broad triangular teeth. Anthers 4, broadly 

 ovate, on short filaments ; style as long as the corolla. Fruit elliptic, 

 pointed towards each end, the apex ci'owned by the small calyx-teeth, 

 glabrous, '45 in. long, and "25 in, diam.; pyrenes 4, rugulose. 



Singapore: in the Botanical Garden jungle; Ridley 4394, 6927. 

 Perak : Scoitechini. P An A^ G : Ridley 2223 ; King's Collector I0974i. 

 VAR. subylabra, King, hairs short, often deciduous. 

 Pkhak: Curtis lZ'ii4i. Selangor : Ridley 4:895. 



10. Lasianthus longifolius, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. YI. 

 514. Shi ub or small, tree ? All parts quite glabrous ; young branches 

 as thick as a goose-quill, black when dry. Leaves coriaceous, broadly 

 or narrowly elliptic, sometimes oblong or oblanceolate-elliptic, sub- 

 acute or shoi'tly and bluntly acuminate, much nairowed to the petiole, 



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