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tor 2278, 3481, 4976, 5056, 5254, 5323, 6231, 6766, 7857, 10015, 10543. 

 Pahang : Bidley 5828. Selangor : Bidley 7562. Malacca : Maingay 

 (K.D.) 1018; Bidley 11135. Singapore : Bidley 2812.— Distrib. 

 Sumatra; Java ; Borneo, Beccari 767, 878, 1189, 2561, 3922 ; Haviland 

 & Hose 3469. 



8. Embelia angulosa. King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing shrub ; 

 branches thick, branchlets wrinkled when dry, lenticels few. Leaves 

 entire, coriaceous ; ovate, obtuse, emarginate, glabrous, shining above, 

 dull beneath, glandular dots pitted on both surfaces ; 2 to 3'5 in. long, 

 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib very thick and prominent, impressed above ; 

 main-nerves 14 to 16 pairs, slender, irregular, leaving the midrib at 

 nearly a right angle, then curved and joining near the margin, raised 

 on upper surface; secondary nerves many, slender, reticulations obscure ; 

 petiole '2 in. long, channelled above and bordered by the crispate edges 

 of the decurrent blade. Inflorescence a dense terminal glabrous stiff 

 panicle about 4 in. long and broad, of racemes, the rachises sharply 

 angled ; bracts leaf-like, spathulate, bracteoles very small, subulate ; 

 pedicels '05 in. long, thick, angular, glabrous or minutely pubescent, 

 equal to or shorter than the bracteoles ; buds globose. Calyx-lobes ovate, 

 ciliate, minute, "03 in. long, not gland-dotted. Corolla-lobes free, ovate, 

 acute, "075 in. long, nearly glabrous outside, papillose within. Stamens 

 shorter than corolla-lobes, inserted one-third up, reniform, with incon- 

 spicuous black dots at the insertion of the short dorsifixed filaments. 

 Ovary ovoid glabrous ; style very short ; stigma peltate. Berry red, 

 ovoid, somewhat pyriform, ribbed and gland-dotted, glabrous, crowned 

 with the remains of a cylindric style and capitate stigma. E. coriacea, 

 Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. ii. IV. 200 (not of A. DC.) 



Perak : Wray 1524 — on Ulu Batang Padang at nearly 5,000 ft. — 

 Distrib. Borneo, Haviland No. 1152, on Mt. Kinabalu at 7,600 to 

 8,800 feet. 



The description of the flowers is taken from Haviland's Borneo specimen, the rest 

 from Wray's. 



9. Embelia Lampani, Scheff. Myrs. 37 (1867). A slender climbing 

 shrub, clinging to trees ; branches reddish-brown, rough with strigose 

 hairs, lenticellate ; branchlets rusty- villous-hairy. Leaves chartaceous ; 

 oblong, obtuse or emarginate at apex, rounded or cordate at base ; 

 margins recurved, upper surface glabrous except on the midrib, lower 

 surface rusty-villous, glandular dots many, scattered ; 1"5 to 3*5 in. long, 

 1 to 1*5 in. broad ; midrib impressed above, prominent below, villous on 

 both sides ; main-nerves many (up to 24 pairs), irregular, at about two- 

 thirds of a right angle with the midrib, straight at first then curving 



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