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Penang: Wallich2291; Curtis 668 ; BicUe7j 7093. Pekak: King's 

 Collector 5624, 5913, 5929, 6185, 8218, 10504. Province Wellesley : 

 Ridley 6953. — Disteib. Andamans or Tenasserim, Heifer (K.D.) 3571, 

 3585; Borneo. 



26. Ardisia Scortechinii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree reaching 

 40 to 50 feet in height and 8 to 12 in. in diam. ; branchlets round, dark 

 brown, lenticellate, leaf-buds acuminate. Leaves entire, coriaceous ; 

 obovate, acute at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous, margins incurved ; 

 glandular dots many, obscure; 5 to 7 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad; midrib 

 prominent slender ; main-nerves 14 to 16 pairs, very oblique, at about 

 30° to the midrib, curved upwards and joining parallel to the margin ; 

 secondary nerves similar but more slender, reticulations curved, 

 surrounding the dots ; petiole -4 in., rather broadly edged by the 

 decurrent margins of the blade, which are nearly connivent above ; 

 stipules leafy, more or less persistent. Inflorescence 2 in. long, of short 

 axillary peduncled, umbellate racemes 8-12-fiowered, in the axils of 

 short leafy bracts ; peduncles thick, about 1 in. long, flattened ; pedicels 

 •5 in., thickened and longer in fruit ; bracteoles ovate, acute, boat-shaped, 

 deflexed, persistent; flowers reddish-pink. Calyx-lobes orbicular, obtuse, 

 •2 to "25 in. long, emarginate, ciliate, scarious on the edges, with many 

 parallel veins and many prominent round or oblong mixed black and 

 brown glandular dots ; tube short. Corolla-lobes ovate, acute, oblique, 

 •35 in. long, unequal, with very few dots, some round some lineolate, 

 tube very short. Stamens shorter than corolla-lobes ; anthers long 

 acuminate, villous on the connective on both sides, back marked with 

 large black glands ; filaments short, very thick. Ovary ovoid, sur- 

 mounted by the conical, subulate, -2 in. long, glabrous style. Berry 

 globose, smooth, -3 in. in diam., bluish black. 



Pebak : Scortechini ; King's Collector 4662, 4672 — on rich soil, in 

 dense jungle, up to 800 feet. 



27. Ardisia pendula, Mez Monog. Myrs. 125 (1901). Apparently a 

 shrub ; branchlets thick, glabrous below, ferruginous-pubescent at the 

 extremities, leaf-buds lanceolate, ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves charta- 

 ceous ; elliptic lanceolate, long acute at apex, cuneate at base ; entire but 

 sometimes -very faintly crenate near the apex ; glabrous above, glabrous 

 or slightly ferruginous-pubescent beneath ; glandular dots scattered, 

 more numerous and prominent near the margins ; 4 to 7 in. long, 1-5 to 

 2 in. broad; midrib slender; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, irregular, 

 starting from the midrib at about an angle of 60°, then arching upwards 

 and joining near the margin; .secondary nerves slender, minor nerves 

 reticulate ; petiole -3 to -5 in. long, winged by the decurrent edges of the 

 blade, hiflorescencc of 3 to 5 in. long axillary peduncled ferruginous- 



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