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the midrib and main-nerves depressed on the upper surface (when dry); 

 main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading, ascending, prominent on the lower 

 surface; length 5 to 7 in.; breadth 1-25 to 225 in.; petioles '2 to '25 

 in. ; stipules oblong-lanceolate, blunt, strigose, '35 in. long. Cymes 

 only slightly longer than the petioles, 3- to 4-flowered. Flowers sessile, 

 with a few minute bracts or without any. Calyx sessile, '15 in. long, 

 strigose, the limb with 5 short obtuse triangular teeth. Corolla, globose, 

 glabrous. Drupe sub-globose, "5 in. in diam. when fresh, only '3 in. 

 when dry, glabrous, black, crowned by the shortly tubular calyx-limb ; 

 pyrenes 4; to 5, trigonous, bisulcate on the back and with 3 vertical pro- 

 cesses, the middle one thick and rugulose, the two lateral thin and wing- 

 like. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2929 ; Maingay (K.D.) 866. 



29. Lastanthus PERAKKNSis, King & Gamble, n.sp. A shrub or small 

 tree; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, deciduously and 

 minutely rusty-puberulous like the petioles, stipules and under surfaces 

 of the midrib and main-nerves. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrowly 

 elliptic or obovate-elliptic, abruptly and shortly acuminate, narrowed 

 in the lower third to the short petiole ; upper surface dark-olivaceous, 

 quite glabrous, shining, the midrib and nerves not prominent ; under 

 surface paler olivaceous, glabrous except the puberulous midrib and 7 

 or 8 pairs of prominent ascending, little-curved main-nerves ; the veins 

 very bold, transverse; length 6 to 10 in.; breadth 1"75 to 3'25 in, 

 petiole "2 to '25 in. ; stipules triangular, acute, shorter than the petioles, 

 adpressed to the stem. Olomeruli about as long as the petioles, condens- 

 ed, ebracteate or with a few small linear hairy bracts shorter than the 

 calyx. Flower's sessile, crowded. Calyx campanulate, much tapered to 

 the base, the mouth wide and with 5 indistinct blunt, spreading lobes, 

 pubescent. Corolla not seen ; ovary 5-celled. Fruit hemispheric, sub- 

 glabrous, ribbed, crowned by the calyx ; pyrenes 5. 



Pebak : Kings Collector 682, 2438, 2838, 10210 ; Wray 4128. 

 Resembling L. Maingayi iu leaves bab with 5-merous flowers. 



30. Lasianthus ANGUSTIF0LIU3, King & Gamble, n. sp. Small tree ; 

 young branches covered with a thin dense layer of adpressed minute 

 pale-brown tomentura. Leaves thickly membranous, narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces brown 

 when dry ; the upper the darker, glabrous except the tomentose midrib ; 

 the lower glabrous except the pubescent midrib and nerves ; the reticu- 

 lations transverse strong on the lower surface, faint on the upper; main- 

 nerves 12 to 14 pairs, slightly curved, ascending, thin but distinct on 

 the lower, indistinct on the upper surface ; lengths or 6 in.; breadth 



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