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divided into 5 slightly unequal, linear-lanceolate lobes, hirsute on both 

 surfaces. Corolla and fruit not seen. 

 Ferak : at 6000 feet, Wray 4109. 



A species near L. lucidus, Blume (not of Hook. fil. in Fl. Br. Ind), bat differing 

 froin that species in its thicker, less acuminate and rather fewer-nerved leaves, 

 and thicker twigs which are moreover tomentose instead of glabrous. The calyx of 

 this is moreover hirsute instead of glabrous. 



35. Lasianthus nervosus, King & Gamble, n sp. A small dense 

 shrub 2 to 3 feet high ; young branches and petioles covered with 

 dense short olivaceous tomentum. Leaves coriaceous, deep olivaceous- 

 brown when dry, shining and minutely reticulate, oblong-lanceolate, 

 the apex acute or sub-acute and mucronate, the base sub-cuneate ; upper 

 surface glabrous, the midrib depressed ; lower slightly paler, the stout 

 midrib and 6 to 8 pairs of prominent curved ascending nerves minutely 

 adpressed-pubescent ; length 1 to 1'5 in.; breadth 4 to '6 in.; petioles 

 •1 to '15 in. long; stipules triangular, much shorter than the petioles, 

 pubescent, caducous. Cymes sessile, while in flower shorter than the 

 pi^tioles, 3-flowered. Flowers sessile, about '15 in. long. Calyx cwpal&r, 

 very short, with 4 triangular teeth. Corolla longer than tlie calyx 

 (about 'I in. long), the tube cylindric, hairy, white ; the lobes 4, short, 

 witlj moniliform hairs inside. Anthers attached to the middle of the 

 tube. Style shortly bifid. Berry bluish, sparsely hairy, globular, '15 

 in. in diam., crowned by the calyx-teeth ; pyi-enes 4. 



Perak : Scortechini 342. 



36. Lasianthus Harveyanus, King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub ; 

 young branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, minutely rusty-tomen- 

 tose like the petioles and midribs of the leaves on both surfaces. Leaves 

 membranous, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, (oblong-elliptic in var. ) ; nar- 

 rowed to the rather blunt (acuminate in var.) apex, the base rounded ; 

 both surfaces pale-brown when dry ; the upper scaberulous and with a 

 few scattered adpressed hairs near the edges ; lower surface scabrid- 

 puberulous between the 4- to 6 (8 to 10 in. var.) pairs of slender little- 

 curved ascending minutely pubescent main-nerves; length 4 to 5 in. 

 (up to 7*5 in VAR.) breadth 1'65 to 2 in. ; petioles "15 to '2 in.; stipules 

 triangular, acute, one-third or one-half as long as the petioles. Cymes 

 longer than the petioles, ebracteate, 3- to 5-flowered. Flowers '3 in. 

 long, sessile. Calyx under "1 in. in length, narrowly campanulate, 

 densely pubescent, the mouth 4-toothed. Corolla both outside and 

 inside less pubescent than the calyx, funnel-shaped ; the mouth with 4 

 ovate and acute spreading lobes. Anthers 4, narrowly oblong, shortly 

 apiculate, exserted, attached by short filaments to the densely villous 

 throat; style elongate; stigmas 2 or 3, hairy. Fruit unknown, 



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