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Pbrak : ScortecUni 180, 190 ; Itidley 8578. 



41. Lasianthus gracilis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender slirub 

 2 to 3 feet high, young branches as thick as or thinner than a crow- 

 quill, like the petioles and sometimes the under-surfaces of the midribs 

 densely ad pressed- pubescent. Leaves stiffly membranous, ovate or sub- 

 rhoraboidal, the apex acute and minutely apiculate ; the base cuneate, 

 sometimes slightly unequal ; both surfaces usually glabrous ; the 7 to 9 

 pairs of main-nerves spreading, little curved, pale and conspicuous 

 beneath ; length "6 to '75 in.; breadth "35 to "5 in.; petiole under '1 in.; 

 stipules as long as the petioles, caducous. Inflorescence a filiform hairy 

 peduncle sliorter than the leaves, bearing at its apex 1 or 2 minute brac- 

 teoles and {fide Scortechini) J to 3 flowers. Fruit depressed-globular, 

 glabrous, shining, -15 in. in diam. with 4 vertical ridges ; pyrenes 4. 



Perak : Scortechini 39, 617. Bidley (in tea gardens) 2904. 



42. Lasianthus Maingayi, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 188. A large 

 shrub or small tree; young branches much thinner than a goose-quill, 

 somewhnt compressed, covered with deciduous minute rather stifF rusty 

 hairs or sub-glabrous. Leaves thickly membranous, large, sub-coriace- 

 ous, pale-brown, often tinged with olivaceous when dry, narrowly elliptic 

 or sub-obovate-elliptic, shortly and abruptly acuminate ; upper surface 

 quite glabrous, shining, the midrib and main-nerves and also the reti- 

 culations rather prominent when dry ; lower surface rather rough from 

 the bold pale transverse veins; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, slightly curved, 

 ascending, thin but prominent ; the midrib stout, glabrous or with a 

 few minute hairs; length 6'5 to 8"5 in.; breadth 175 to 3 in.; petiole 

 •2 to "3 in.; stipules, lanceolate, acuminate, the base broad, shorter than 

 the petioles, pubescent, deciduous. Qlomeruli lobulate, shorter than the 

 petioles, sessile ebracteate, the flowers crowded .on 2 or 3 short thick 

 branches Flowers about '15 in. long, ou very short pedicels, puberu- 

 lous. Gnlyx about as long as the corolla, campanulate, constricted 

 somewhat below the three blunt or acute triangular teeth. Corolla 

 tubular with 3 sub-acute triangular teeth. Anthers 3, broadly oblong, 

 emarginate at the apex. Ovary 3-cel]ed, style cylindric. Fruit obli- 

 quely elliptic, crowned by the small calyx ; pyrenes 3, rugulose. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 871. Singapore: Bidley 10737; King 

 89 ; Hallett 528. JoHORE : Ridley 6516, 11185, 11186, 11187. Selangob: 

 Bidley 41895. Perxk: Scortechini, 678 ; King s Collector 2964. 



This resembles No. 13, but is trimerons, its cymes have thick branches and are 

 ebracteate, and its young steins and leaves are glabrous or nearly so. 



43. Lasianthus lucidus, King & Gamble, n. sp A glabrous foetid 

 shrub; young braTiches rather thicker than a crow-quill, somewhat 

 compressed, especially at the nodes. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong- 



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