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surface pale dull-brown, with sparse pits, each bearing a short adpressed 

 dark hair, the edges wavy, sub-serrate and adpressed-ciliate ; main- 

 nerves 2 or 3 pairs, curving upwards and inwards and interarching, 

 thick but faint on the lower surface ; length 1-25 to 2 in. ; breadth 

 75 to 1-35 in. ; petioles "1 to '2 in., adpressed-bristly. Floioers 

 solitary or in pairs, •4 or -5 in. long, axillary, pedicellate, the pedi- 

 cels -3 to 4 in. long, twice as long (or more) in fruit, densely rusty- 

 tomentose and recurved when young, erect and less woolly when old. 

 Involucral bracts usually 2, thick, about -2 in. long, broad, glabrous 

 inside, rusty-tomentose outside. Calyx larger than corolla, rotate, 

 deeply divided into 5 lanceolate, somewhat spreading, lobes ; rusty- 

 tomentose outside and sub-glabrous inside. Corolla^ a little shorter 

 than the calyx, glabrous, ovoid-globular, its mouth contracted and with 

 6 short reflexed teeth. Stamens 10, shorter than the corolla, and 

 inserted near its base ; anthers oblong, broad, cordate and inappendicu- 

 late at the base ; the apex prolonged into 2 white apically porous tubes ; 

 filaments short, bent. Ovary sub-globular, laxly and deciduously 

 tomentose, 5-celled ; ovules numerous, oblong-concave, attached by the 

 middle to the axillary placentas ; style cylindric, slightly grooved, 

 twice as long as the corolla. Fruit a berry with scanty pulp, blue 

 when ripe, the seeds red. 



Peeak, at elevations of about 6,500 feet, on the summit of Gunong 

 Batu Pateh : Scortechini 402 ; Wray 312. 



2. Pernettyopsis sub-glabea, n. sp.. King & Gamble. A 

 small, rigid, epiphytic shrub ; young stems slightly thicker than a 

 crow-quill, with a few adpressed bristles near the ends, otherwise 

 glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, sub-rotund to elliptic-rotund, minutely 

 apiculate ; upper surface dull-brown, minutely reticulate, glabrous, the 

 lower reddish-brown, with a few small adpressed hairs with black 

 bases ; main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, curving upwards, deeply depressed 

 on the upper surface like the midrib, less so on the lower ; the 

 edges minutely sub-serrate and sparsely adpressed-ciliate ; length -8 to 

 1-5 in.; breadth -75 to 1-25 in. ; petiole -15 to -25 in. long, adpressed- 

 bristly. Bracts under the flower 2 or 3, broad, rusty-pubescent 

 externally like the pedicel. Calyx longer than the corolla, rotate, 

 with 5 deep lanceolate spreading lobes, glabrous except the rusty- 

 pubescent tips. Corolla, stamens, ovary, and style as in P. malayana. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Peeak, at elevations of 5,000 feet : Scortechini 752 ; King's 

 Collector 7407. 



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