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tree ; young branches rather thinner than a goose-quill, pale brown 

 when dry, slightly pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, oblong- 

 elliptic, the apex sub-acute, narrowed from about the middle to the 

 acute or rounded base ; both surfaces dull brown when dry and minutely 

 reticulate, the lower pale ; main-nerves 15 to 18 pairs, slightly curved, 

 spreading, indistinct on the upper surface, rather distinct on the lower; 

 the midrib very bold and prominent on the lower surface, faint and 

 depressed on the upper ; length 3-5 to 6 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiole 

 -75 to 1 in. long, stout. Umbels shortly stalked, 3- to 8-flowered ; 

 flower-pedicels unequal, -75 to 1'35 in. long, stout, glabrous. Floivers 

 unknown. Calyx cupular, "1 in. deep, the mouth wavy. Ovary densely 

 rufescent-pubescent. Capsule -4 to "7 in. long, rusty-pubescent, very 

 slightly ridged, dehiscing by 5 straight valves, crowned by the persistent 

 pubescent style. 



Peeak, at an elevation of 3,400 feet : Wray 233, 460 : Scoriechini 

 367. 



5. Pernettyopsis, King & Gamble, nov. gen. 



Small rigid epiphytic shrubs. Leaves alternate, on short hispid 

 petioles, minutely sub-crenulate, coriaceous, persistent, Floivers soli- 

 tary or in pairs, axillary, with 2 (rarely 3) rather large bracts at their 

 bases forming an involucre ; pedicels decurved in fruit. Calyx larger 

 than the corolla, rotate, deeply 5-partite, persistent and unchanged in 

 fruit. Corolla urceolate or ovoid, glabrous, the mouth constricted and 

 with 5 short reflexed teeth. Stamens 10, free, included, the filaments 

 slightly attached by their somewhat dilated bases to the bottom of the 

 corolla-tube. Anthers short, inappendiculate at the back or base, 

 oblong, the apices prolonged into 2 long porously dehiscing tubes. 

 Ovary faintly 5-lobed, 5-celled ; style columnar ; stigma simple ; ovules 

 numerous, the placentas on the inner angles of the locuH. Berry 

 globose, 5-celled. Seeds minute, compressed, numerous, angled ; testa 

 crustaceous. — Distrib. Species 2, both Malayan. 



Calyx densely rusty-tomentose . . . . . . . . 1. P. malayana. 



Calyx glabrous except the tips of the lobes . . . . . . 2. P. suh-gldbra. 



1. Pernettyopsis malayana, n. sp.. King & Gamble. Epiphytic ; 

 a bush a foot or two in height ; young branches half as thick as a 

 goose-quill, sparsely clothed near their apices with flat adpressed black 

 bristles less than -1 in. long. Leaves thickly coriaceous, rotund, obovate 

 to elliptic, the apex broad, minutely apiculate, the base slightly nar- 

 rowed ; upper surface olivaceous-brown when dry, shining, the midrib 

 and main-nerves deeply depressed, the reticulations less so ; lower 



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