128 Flo7'a of the Malayan Peninsula. 



surfaces olivaceous, somewhat shining, reticulate, the upper quite glabrous, 

 the lower pubescent on the bold midrib and thin but prominent 5 or 6 

 pairs of curved ascending main-nerves, sometimes also on the transverse 

 veins ; length 3 to 4'5 in.; breadth 1 to 1'5 in.; petioles "1 to '15 in., 

 stout, stipules about '16 in. long, pubescent, adpressed to the stem, 

 triangular-acuminate. Flowers solitary or in pairs, about "5 in. long, 

 ebracteate. Calyx nearly as long as the corolla with a short tube and 

 5 long unequal linear-lanceolate pubescent lobes. Corolla white, salver- 

 shaped ; the tube long and narrow, pubescent on both surfaces, but es- 

 pecially inside near the base ; lobes broad, spreading, somewhat irregu- 

 lar, with tufts of long hair near their apices. Anthers 5, short, sub- 

 sessile near the base of the tube. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : at elevations of 3000 to 4000 feet, Wray 3932 ; King's Col- 

 lector 2156. 



33. Lasianthus Curtisii, King & Gamble, n, sp. A shrub; young 

 branches somewhat thicker than a crow-quill, sparsely and deciduously 

 pubescent, ultimately glabrous. Leaves thickly membranous, olivace- 

 ous-brown when dry, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, much acuminate, 

 the base slightly cuneate; upper surface quite glabrous ; lower minute- 

 ly and softly pubescent on the midrib, bold transverse veins and 4 to 6 

 pairs of stout spreading ascending curved main-nerves ; length 2"5 to ' 

 3"5 in.; breadth "35 to, l"25 in.; petioles '15 to "2 in., very pubescent, 

 stipules triangular, adpressed to the stem, hirsute, under •! in. long. 

 Cymes not much longer than the petioles, axillary, sessile, 6- to 8-flow- 

 ered, ebracteate. Flowers sessile, "15 to '2 in. long. Calyx cleft to 

 nearly the base into 5 sub-equal, linear-lanceolate sub-erect lobes, hir- 

 sute externally. Corolla much shorter than the calyx, its upper part 

 with dense long yellow hair ; lobes 5, short, blunt. Anthers 6, sessilcf 

 oblong, blunt. Fruit ovoid-globular, sparsely pilose, '1 in. long but 

 crowned by the equally long, persistent calyx-lobes ; pyrenes 5, broad, 

 3 -angled. 



Penang : Curtis 284, 9355. 



34. Lasianthus pseudo-lucidus. King, n. sp. A bush; young 

 branches slender, densely and minutely tawny-tomentose. Leaves thin- 

 ly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, the base cuneate, 

 both surfaces pale olivaceous-brown when dry, the upper glabrous ; the 

 lower darker, reticulate, puberulous on the midrib and nerves ; main- 

 nerves 6 or 7 pairs curved, ascending, distinct on the lower surface ; 

 length 2 to 25 in. ; breadth '6 to '75 in. ; petiole about *!, in., pubescent ; 

 stipules narrowly oblong-lanceolate, tomentose, "4 in. long. Cymes 

 twice as long as the petioles, on short tomentose peduncles, 3- to 4- 

 flowered. Flowers sessile. Calyx campanulate, '25 in. long, deeply 



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