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Peeak : Scortechini. 



Very near A. Wrayi, but differs especially in the coriaceous leaves and the shorter 

 and much thicker pedicels. 



37. Abdisia perakensis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small bush ; 

 branchlets pale brown, smooth, wrinkled when dry ; innovations densely 

 rusty-glandular-pubescent. Leaves membranous ; elliptic-lanceolate, 

 long acute both at apex and base ; nearly glabrous on both surfaces 

 but with small peltate scales, young leaves rusty-glandular-pubescent ; 

 margin slightly recurved, shortly and shallowly crenate or nearly den- 

 tate except on the lower third and at the apex, glands in the crenatures 

 present, obscure ; glandular dots absent or very sparse ; 2-5 to 4 in. long, 

 •75 to 1-25 in. broad; midrib slender; main-nerves about 16 pairs, rather 

 irregular in angle and distance, meeting near the margin in an irregularly 

 looped intramarginal nerve, reticulations many, transverse, all raised 

 on lower surface ; petiole slender, -2 to "4 in. long, bordered by the 

 decurrent margins of the blade. Inflorescence of small, 2-3-fiowered, 

 rusty-glandular, pubescent, pedunculate umbels from the axils of upper 

 leaves or of reduced bract-like leaves ; peduncles '3 in. long ; pedicels 

 •1 to -2 in. long ; bracteoles ovate, minute ; buds ovoid, pale pink. 

 Calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, acute, minutely pubescent and gland- 

 dotted, -05 in. long. Corolla-lobes ovate, acute, -1 to -15 in. long, 

 glabrous, sparsely black-gland-dotted. Sta^nens a little shorter than 

 corolla-lobes ; filaments almost none ; anthers ovate, acute, "1 in. long. 

 Ovary rounded, glabrous ; style subulate, '075 in. long. Berry not 

 known. 



Pebak : at 300 feet in Upper Perak, Wray 3462. 



38. Ardisia Meziana, King & Gamble, n. sp. A herbaceous under- 

 shrub, 1 to 2 feet in height, stem 2 in. in diam. ; bark soft, pale brown, 

 upper parts and innovations rusty-glandular pubescent. Leaves charta- 

 ceous ; elhptic-obovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate at apex, cuneate 

 at base ; glabrous above, sparsely glandular-pubescent beneath ; margins 

 rather narrowly crenate-dentate except in the lower third to half 

 and at the acumination, recurved, glands in the crenatures obscure ; 

 glandular dots many, scattered, inconspicuous ; 3'5 to 5-5 in. long^ 

 1-5 to 2 in. broad; midrib slender; main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, at an 

 angle of about 60° with the midrib, at first straight afterwards curved 

 upwards to anastomose near the margin ; secondary nerves few, reticu- 

 lations oblique, all more or less raised on both surfaces when dry; 

 petiole -3 to -5 in. long, somewhat thickened below, densely rusty- 

 glandular-pubescent. Inflorescence of very short, sessile, rusty-glandular- 

 pubescent racemes of about 6 flowers each, in the axils of the leaves all 



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