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branches, under surfaces of leaves, and outside of calyx and corolla 

 minutely but deciduously puberulous ; all other parts except the corolla 

 quite glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, shortly and 

 rather bluntly acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces pale hepatic- 

 brown when dry and reticulate, tlie upper in all stages quite glabrous, 

 the lower ultimately becoming so ; the midrib very bold on the lower, 

 less so in the upper surface; main-nerves 10 pairs, thin but distinct, 

 spreading and ascending, many of the intermediate nerves prominent 

 and spreading like the main ones, the reticulating veins delicate and 

 forming square or rhomboidal areolae ; length 8 to 10 in. ; breadth 2 to 

 275 in.; petiole 'S to '4 in.; stipules lb in. long with broad bases and 

 abrupt oblong points. Cymes not much exceeding the petioles, ebrac- 

 teate, 4-or 5-flowered, shortly pedunculate. Flowers '5 in. long, sessile. 

 Calyx *25 in. long, tubular, the mouth truncate but obscurely toothed. 

 Corolla much longer than tiie calyx, tubular, sub-inflated below the 

 broadly 4-toothed limb, thick (almost fleshy), coarsely pubescent on 

 one side externally, more or less villous everywhere internally. Anthers 

 4, narrowly oblong, on short thick filaments. Fruit unknown. 



Perak: at an elevation of 4500 feet on Gunong Batu Pateh, 

 Wray 270. 



Mr. Wray describes the whole plant as very foetid when braised. 



25. Lasianthus MALACCENSis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree; 

 young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, terete, puberulous, very 

 dark in colour when dry. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, bluntly 

 acuminate, the base i^ounded but slightly contiucted just above its junc- 

 tion with the petiole ; the edges somewhat wavy ; both surfaces glabrous 

 except for a few minute adpressed hairs on the midi'ib and nerves, dark 

 olivaceous-brown, reticulate when dry ; main-nerves 8 or 9 pairs, curv- 

 ed, ascending abruptly, thin and inconspicuous; length 4 to 5 in.; 

 breadth 1 to I "4 in.; petiole "3 in. Stipules much shorter than the 

 petioles, the base broad, abruptly narrowed into the ti iangular apex. 

 Flowers two or three together in the leaf-axils. Calyx sessile, campanu. 

 late, tapering to the base, less than *i in. long, puberulous outside the 

 mouth, wide and minutely 5-toothed. Fr^ut sub-globular, pulpy, sur- 

 mounted by the 5 or 6 blunt short calyx-teeth, '2 in. in diam. ; pyreues 

 4, narrow, smooth. 



Malacca : Bidley 3219, 



26. Lasianthus chinensis, Benth. Fl. Hongkong 160. A shrub 8 

 to 12 feet high; young branches rather thinner than a goose-quill, angled, 

 the bark dark-brown when di-y, sparsely and minutely adpressed-pubes- 

 ceut. Leaves dark olivaceous-brown when dry, thinly coriaceous, elliptic- 



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