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This resembles No. 17, but has its leaves hairy on the upper surface, thicker 

 young branches and a much wider corolla-tube. 



39. Lasianthus scalariformis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A shi^ab 5 

 or 6 feet high ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, minutely 

 rusty-puberulous, faintly ridged, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves coiia- 

 ceoiis, narrowlj elliptic-oblong, the apex very shortly acuminate or 

 acute, much narrowed to the base ; both surfaces dark olivaceous-biowa 

 "when dry, glabrous, shining, the veins scalariform, horizontal, close 

 together, very distinct especially on tlie lower surface, the midrib tliia 

 OP the upper surface, stout, convex and often faintly puberulous on the 

 lower surface ; main-nerves 7 or 8 pairs, little curved, ascending, broad, 

 bold, and when young, minutely puberulous on the lower surface, always 

 faint and glabrous on the upper; length 4 to 5 in.; breadth 1-25 to 

 1'5 in. ; petioles "25 to "3 in. ; stipules minute (about "05 in. long) tri- 

 angular, with broad bases. Peduncle solitary, ebracteate, glabrous, 

 about '5 in. long, bearing at its apex a 3- to 5-flowered cyme. Flowers 

 sessile. Calyx "2 in. long, campanulate, deeply divided into 5 narrowly 

 oblong acute lobes very minutely puberulous. Corolla not seen. Fridt 

 glabrous, obovoid, 5-ridged ; pyrenes 5. 



Perak: Scortechini 411; Wray, at an elevation of 6700 feet, 332. 



40. Lasianthds FiLiFoRMis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender shrub 

 2 to 4 feet high ; young branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, 

 clothed like the other parts of the plant with long spreading rather 

 slender hairs. Leaves membranous, subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, short- 

 ly acuminate; the base rounded, slightly unequal and minutely caudate, 

 both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry (sometimes pale), dull, more 

 or less hispidulous-pubescent especially on the midrib and main-nerves; 

 the upper when old sometimes almost glabrous; main-nerves 7 to 9 

 pairs, thin, but pale and rather conspicuous on the lower surface (when 

 dry), inconspicuous on the upper; lengtli 2 to 2*75 in.; breadth -65 to 

 1 in. ; petiole under '1 in. or almost absent ; stipules linear-lanceolate, 

 pubescent, "2 or "25 in. long. Inflorescence a slender solitary filiform, 

 sparsely pubescent peduncle '75 to 1 in, long, bearing at its apex one 

 or at most two, flowers subtended by a single or double linear bracteole 

 (by two large leaf- like bracts in var. hracteata). Calyx with a campa- 

 nulate tube 1 in. long, and 4 linear-lanceolate erect lobes longer than 

 itself. Corolla tubular, exceeding the calyx-lobes, white hairy, deeply 

 4-lobed Uvary Scelled. Fruit baccate, blue, '25 in. in diam., crowned 

 by the long persistent calyx-lobes. 



Perak: 8 cor techini 29 ; King's Collector Qh\. 



VAR. hracteata. Flowers subtended by two ovate acute leaf-like bracts 

 from '3 to '6 in. long. 



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