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16. Ardisia platyclada, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree or 

 shrub reaching 10 to 15 feet in height; branchlets pale brown, pro- 

 minently marked by zigzag raised lines joining the sides of the bases of 

 the petioles ; uppermost ones prominently flattened and covered with 

 rusty furfuraceous scales, as are also the young leaves. Leaves charta- 

 ceous ; oblong or elliptic- oblong, abruptly acuminate at apex, attenuate 

 and somewhat rounded at base ; both surfaces covered when young with 

 rusty stellate scales, glabrescent when old ; margins undulate, recurved ; 



4 to 6 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad; midrib slender but prominent 

 beneath, impressed above ; main-nerves 14 to 18 pairs, '3 to '4 in. apart, 

 rather irregularly parallel, leaving the midrib at an angle of about 65° 

 and joining at '1 to "2 in. from the margin in a very prominent intra- 

 marginal looped nerve ; secondary nerves and reticulations obscure ; 

 petiole none or very short, rarely '2 in. long, rugose, rusty-scaly, and 

 bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Inflorescence a terminal, 

 compact, bracteate, rusty-scaly, pyramidal, bi-tri-pinnate panicle, 4 to 



5 in. long, the flowers in dense subumbellate clusters on the branches ; 

 rachis flattened, flexuose ; bracts foliaceous, spathulate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, "5 to 1'5 in. long; bracteoles small, triangular-subulate; 

 pedicels glabrous, cernuous, about "1 in. long ; buds very small, conical. 

 Calyx-lobes pink, lanceolate, -04 in. long, ciliate, obscurely red-gland- 

 dotted ; tube as long as or rather shorter than the lobes. Corolla-lobes 

 waxy- white, ovate-acuminate, -07 in. long, slightly gland-dotted ; tube 

 very short. Stamens shorter than corolla-lobes ; anthers ovate, apiculate ; 

 filaments very short. Ovary rounded, minutely pubescent at top ; style 

 straight, "15 in. long, exsert. Berry globose, "15 to "2 in. in diam., 

 glandular-rugose, dark blue, black when dry. 



Perak : Scortechini 232 ; King's Collector 824, 4569, 5863, 8136, 

 10140 ; usually in dense mixed forest. 



A. pterocaulis, Miq. ; Mez Monog. Myrs. Ill, a tree of the forests of the Sumatran 

 mountains, much resembles this at first sight, but the leaves are bigger, the flower 

 panicles much larger and more open, with shorter pedicels, and the nerves of the 

 leaves do not meet in a prominent looped intramarginal nerve. {Forbes 1992 in Herb. 

 Cale.) 



17. Ardisia porosa, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 522 (1882). 

 A shrub, reaching 8 feet in height ; branches flexuose, almost zigzag, 

 winged by lines decurrent from the bases of the leaf-petioles. Leaves 

 chartaceous ; oblong, acute at apex, cuneate at base or sometimes 

 rounded-acute ; glabrous, pale beneath ; entire, margin often recurved ; 

 glands small and obscure; 5 to 9 in. long, 1*5 to 2-5 in. broad; midrib 

 rather slender, prominent beneath ; main-nerves obscure, irregular, about 



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