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spreading, tomentose ; length 3 to 3-5 in. ; breadth '75 to 1 in. ; petioles 

 about '1 in. ; stipules linear, twice as long as the petioles. Oymes longer 

 than the petioles, few-flowered, bearing a few linear tomentose bracts 

 as long as the stipules and i-eserabling them. Calyx & corolla unknown. 

 Fruit sub-globular, somewhat narrowed at the base, the apex truncate, 

 the sides deeply 5-grooved, the interspaces pubescent and rugulose, 

 about "25 in. long, crowned by the equally long or longer erect linear 

 pubescent calyx-lobes ; pyreues 5, bony. 

 Pekak: Scortechini S29. 



A plant known only from Scortichini's imperfect specimens ; named from the 

 long conspicuous calyx-lobes on the apex of the fruit. 



19. Lasianthds appressus, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 181. A 

 shrub; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, softly and densely 

 hirsute like the petioles, stipules and bracts. Leaves sub-coriaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate (often rather 

 abruptly so) ; upper surface pale olivaceous-brown, glabrous, shining, 

 the main-nerves and midrib depressed, the latter with 1 or 2 lines of 

 adpressed iiairs ; lower surface paler and bearing many sub-adpressed 

 yellowish hairs ; especially on the main-nerves and rather prominent 

 transverse veins; main-nerves 6 or 7 pairs, curved, ascending, bold and 

 prominent on the lower surface ; length 2 to 3 in.; breadth -5 to '75 in.; 

 petiole 'I to '15 in. long; stipules oblong, blunt, adpressed to the stem, 

 rather shorter than the outer flower-bracts. Flowers about '15 in. long, 

 sessile, sub-solitary, surrounded by linear-lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute 

 bracts, the outer of which are "25 in. long, the inner being smaller. 

 Calyx campauulate, sparsely pilose, the limb with 4 short triangular 

 rather blunt teeth. Corolla minute. Frioit depressed-globular, crown- 

 ed by the short calyx-lobes, -J 5 in. in diam., sparsely pilose ; pyrenes 

 8, three-sided, smooth. Lasianthus, Wall. Cat. 8443 and 8442 partly. 



Malacca (on Mount Ophir) Griffith (K.D.) 2927. Penang : Wallich; 

 King; Deschamps. J chore : fltdZe?/ 2925, 11183 and 4. Pbeak : Scor- 

 techini. 



20. Lasianthus attenuatus. Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV. 126. 

 A shrub ; young branches not much thicker than a crow-quill, covered 

 like the petioles, and upper surfaces of the leaf-midribs with dense 

 short cinereous-olivaceous tomeutum. Leaves membranous, oblong, 

 lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base rounded and somewhat oblique 

 upper surface (except the midrib) glabrous, dark-olivaceous; the lower 

 paler, minutely pilose, especially on the midrib and 7 or 8 pairs of 

 spreading ascending rather bold main-nerves; the reticulations faint; 

 length 2 to 35 in.; breadth -76 to 1 in.; petioles about -1 in.; stipules 



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