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long, sessile. Calyx sparsely pilose, OToid, tapering to the small 4- 

 toothed mouth. Corolla pilose outside, white, longer than the calyx, 

 salver-shaped, the tube narrowly funnel-shaped; its limb with 4 broad 

 blunt hairy teeth each bearing near its base an oblong anther on a short 

 filament. Fruit {fide Curtis) blue, '5 in. long. 



Penang : at an elevation of 2000 feet ; Curtis. Singapore : Bidley 

 140. 



We refer this to L. Kurzii with some hesitation, for it does not absolutely agree 

 with specimens from the Andamans so named by Sir Joseph Hooker. 



17. Lasianthus sub-inaequalis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub 

 3 to 5 feet high : young branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, 

 densely rusty-tomentose like the short petioles. Leaves membranous, 

 oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, very little or not at all narrowed 

 to the rounded sub-cordate, slightly oblique base ; both surfaces pale, 

 olivaceous-brown when dry ; the upper sparsely pilose, densely so on the 

 midrib ; lower surface more or less pilose everywhere, densely so on the 

 prominent midrib and 8 to 10 pairs of spreading curved main-nerves ; 

 length 2 to 35 in.; breadth '75 to 1 in.; petiole under '1 in.; stipules 

 ovate to elliptic, sometimes tapering to each end, pilose, '35 to '5 in. 

 long. Glomeruli few-flowered, axillary, not so long as the stipules, their 

 bracts like the stipules but smaller. Flowers few, about '3 in. long, 

 sessile. Calyx deeply divided into 4 unequal lanceolate lobes. Corolla 

 about "15 in. long, divided into 4 short lobes, hairy outside like the 

 calyx, concave and glabrous inside. Anthers 4, oblong, sessile. Fruit 

 •35 in. long, of which half is formed by the persistent calyx-lobes, glo- 

 bular, blue, sparsely hirsute; pyrenes 4, three-sided, smooth. 



Perak : King's Collector 157, 3358 ; Wray 2588, 3451 ; Bidley 9715 ; 

 Scortechini 189. — Distrib. Sumatra : For fees 2457: Java; on Mounts 

 Salak and Pangerango. 



Allied closely to Lasianthus inaequalis Bl. ; King & Gamble, bnt with narrower 

 Bubsessile leaves and much more conspicuous stipules, which are ovate or elliptic 

 not linear. 



18. Lasianthus coronatus, King & Gamble, n. sp. Young branches 

 rather thicker than a crow-quill, covered like the petioles, stipules and 

 lower surfaces of the leaf-midribs and main-nerves with soft brown to- 

 mentum. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, much acuminate, the 

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

 glabrous, except the tomentose lower fourth of the midrib, finely reti- 

 culate, the midrib and main-nerves depressed; lower surface darker 

 than the upper, the reticulating veins transverse, bold and pubescent, 

 the enclosed spaces almost glabrous ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, bold, 



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