116 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



then producing an elegant network; under-surface with brown glandular 

 scales ; petiole 1 to 3 in., enlarged at the base, often minutely rusty- 

 pubescent. Flowers pink, in a spike-like, long-stalked, ferruginous - 

 tomentose panicle of small corymbose bracteate clusters ; peduncles 

 of corymbs 1 in. long or shorter, sometimes none ; bract linear-subulate, 

 •05 to 1 in. long. ; pedicels -05 to 1 in., slender, with minute bracteoles. 

 Calyx-lobes triangular, acute, "025 in. long, densely glandular. Corolla- 

 lobes ovate, with linear glands, glabrous. Stamens infolded in the 

 corolla ; filaments very short ; anthers oblong-linear, apiculate, with 

 several hard round or linear black warts on the back. Ovary rounded, 

 pubescent, ending in a subulate angular style with minute notched 

 stigma. Fruit a globose red berry, about -15 in. in diam., ribbed 

 and with prominent elongate glands, surmounted by the persistent 

 style. Mez Monog. Myrs. 171 (var. genuina). L. pothoina, Lindl. in 

 Bot. Eeg. 31. t. 48 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 518 ; Stapf 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, IV. 200 ; Ardisia jnimila, Blume Bijdr. 

 688 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 137 ; Miq. PI. Jungh. 199 and Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 1028; Scheff. Myrs. 92. A ? spicata, Wall. Cat. 2273; 

 A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 135. 



Singapore or Penang : Walker, 165. Penang : Curtis 1192 ; 

 Kunstler 1159. Perak : Scortechijii ; Wray 753a, Malacca : Maingay 

 1013 (K.D.) ; Stoliczka. Singapoee : Bidley 1804. — Distrib. Java : 

 Forbes 238, 474. In dense moist forests on the lower slopes of hills. 



Var. lanceolata, Scheff. I.e. 93. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 somewhat rounded at base ; not, or very slightly, decurrent ; blade 5 to 

 8 in. long, by 1*5 to 3*5 in. broad ; petiole 2 to 5 in. long not winged. 

 Inflorescence more slender, bracts often longer than the peduncle of the 

 corymb. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 518; Mez Monog. Myrs. 172. 

 L. pothoina, N. E. Brown {nan Lindl.) in 111. Hort. XXXII. 95 tab. 561. 



Penang : Hullett 201. Pahang : Goodenough 2799. Singapore : 

 Lohb 61 ; Kurz ; T. Anderson 196. — Distrib. Sumatra, Korthals ; 

 Borneo, Motley 1250, Haviland. 



Var. alata, Scheff. I.e. 93. Leaves thin ashy-green above, dark 

 green below, elliptic oblong, rounded at top or obtusely acuminate ; 

 gradually or suddenly narrowed into a broad wing decurrent on the 

 petiole ; crenate glands and scales few or none ; 6 to 16 in. long, 2 to 

 4 in. broad. Inflorescence with the corymbs usually more closely 

 congested and on a shorter peduncle ; flowers somewhat smaller, bracts 

 usually longer than the corymb peduncle, flowers white or pink. Mez 

 Monog. Myrs. 172. L. alata, N. E. Brown in 111. Hort. XXXIII. 123, 

 t. 605. 



Perak: Wray 753b, 824, 2482, 2737; Scortechini ; King's Collector 

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