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cupular, with 5 broad, shallow blunt teeth. Corolla much longer than 

 the calyx, widely tubular ; lobes 5, blunt, broadly ovate, reflexed, the 

 throat with a little short hair. Anthers 5, narrowly elliptic, blunt, on 

 short filaments, almost basitixed, exserted by the reflexion of the lobes 

 of the corolla. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Wraij 3.959 ; Kings Collector 2755. 



28. PsYCHOTRiA iN^QUALis, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small 

 unbranched shrub ; the stem thinner than a goose-quill, deciduously 

 puberulous, only a foot high, brown when dry. Leaves thickly mem- 

 branous, those of a pair somewhat unequal in size, elongate-obovate, 

 the smaller one oblong-elliptic, all abruptly and shortly acuminate, the 

 base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, minutely pitted when dry ; the 

 lower with many coarse pale-brown, crisped, flattened hairs on the mid- 

 rib and nerves, and a few pale appressed hairs on the interspaces ; mid- 

 rib broad and channelled on both surfaces, as are also the 10 to 13 pairs 

 of pale ascending, slightly curved main-nerves ; length 6 to 10 in. ; 

 breadth 2-5 to 5 in. ; petiole "5 to -75 in., stout. Stipules narrowly 

 ovate, acuminate, pubescent, -65 in. long. Cy^ne solitary, terminal, 2 to 

 3 "5 in. long (including the 1 to 2 in. peduncle), pyramidal, everywhere 

 rusty -puberulous, the branches opposite, many-flowered, and with broad 

 abruptly acuminate bracts ; the lowest pair exceeding 1 in. in length, 

 reflexed; branchlets divaricate. Flowers -1 in. long, on short stout 

 pedicels. Calyx small, tubular ; its lobes broadly triangular. Corolla 

 not much longer than the calyx, its lobes linear with moniliform bluish 

 hairs at their bases and on the throat. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Scortechini 279. 



29. PsYCHOTRiA condensa, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small 

 woody shrub ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, the nodes 

 close together and slightly thickened, the internodes striate, at first 

 scurfy-puberulous but afterwards glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, nar- 

 rowly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; 

 upper surface when dry very dark brown, the lower paler and tinged 

 with olivaceous, the midrib prominent and pale ; the 5 or 6 pairs of 

 oblique main-nerves visible beneath but not above ; length 1 to 1*25 in. ; 

 breadth -3 to -5 in. ; petiole -05 in. Stipules broadly triangular, acumi- 

 nate, nearly -1 in. long. Umbel cymose, 3-branched, terminal, shorter 

 than the leaves ; each branch with 3 unequally pedicillate flowers. 

 Floioers not seen. Fruit globular-ovoid, with 2 prominent furrowed 

 vertical ridges and several obscure ones between them, crowned by the 

 5-toothed calyx ; length -2 in. ; breadth '15 in. Seeds with one pro- 

 minent dorsal ridge, ventral surface flat. 



Perak : Scortechini. 

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