150 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Var. angusta, Clarke, I.e. Leaves narrowly lanceolate ; flowers in 

 a simple umbellate raceme, pedicels divaricate, buds obtuse. 

 Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3584. 



41. Ardisia rosea. King & Gamble, n. sp. A small shrub reaching 

 4 to 6 feet in height ; branchlets divaricate, purplish-brown when dry, 

 glabrous ; buds lanceolate. Leaves membranous ; elliptic, cuspidately 

 acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; broadly crenate with shallow 

 crenatures and prominent glands, the margin recurved ; glabrous on 

 both surfaces ; glandular dots extremely numerous, prominent on the 

 under surface which is paler than the upper when dry ; 2 to 4 in. 

 long, 1 to 1-5 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main-nerves obscure, 8 to 12 

 pairs, irregular, branching and usually ending in the crenature-glands ; 

 secondary nerves and reticulations indistinct ; petiole red, slender, 

 •25 to '5 in. long, bordered by the decurrent crisped margins of the 

 blade. Inflorescence a corymbiform terminal or pseudo-terminal panicle 

 of umbellate racemes, the branches divaricate, minutely rusty-pube- 

 scent ; common peduncle, above the last leaf, short, about '05 in. ; 

 branch peduncles slender, -5 to 1 in. long ; pedicels slender, -2 to -4 in. 

 long, up to '5 in. long in fruit, flattened in flower ; flowers in each 

 umbel about 12, usually recurved ; buds ovoid, acute. Calyx-lobes 5, 

 triangular-ovate, -05 in. long, glabrous, not glandular ; tube as long 

 as lobes, lobes reflexed in fruit. Corolla-lobes waxy-white tinged 

 with pink, or pink only, ovate-acuminate, -2 in. long, much twisted to 

 the left, not glandular. Stamens nearly as long as corolla-lobes ; 

 filaments slender, -05 in. long ; anthers ovate, blunt, -1 in. long, with 

 very few glands. Ovary rounded, glabrous ; style filiform, -15 in. long. 

 Berry black, globose, -25 in. in diam., smooth, tipped with the long 

 slender persistent style. 



Perak: Wray 32, 402; Scortechini 295, 664; Bidley 5511, 

 9720; Ki7ig's Collector 3247, 6247, 8057; in dense forests in the 

 mountains from 3,000 feet elevation to the top of Gunong Batu at 

 6,700 feet. 



42. Ardisia longepedunculata. King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub ; 

 branchlets slender, rusty-pubescent, divaricate. Leaves membranous ; 

 oblong-lanceolate, long acuminate at apex, attenuate at base ; crenulate 

 with shallow glandular crenatures, margin recurved ; glabrous on both 

 surfaces, pale beneath when dry ; glandular dots many, scattered, pro- 

 minent on the under surface when dry ; 4 to 6 in. long, 1-25 in. broad ; 

 midrib slender ; main-nerves 12 to 16 pairs, curved upwards to and 

 along the margin usually to end in the crenature-glands ; secondary 

 nerves and reticulations obscure ; petiole slender, -5 in. long, bordered 

 by the decurrent crisped margins of the blade. Inflorescence a terminal 



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