182 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Penang: Curtis 1451, 3536. Perak : Wray 512, Vern. " Gutta 

 Gannu " ; Scortecliini 1408. 



This species comes near both to B. Motley ana, from which it differs in having 

 more coriaceous leaves, larger flowers, and a pubescent fruit ; and to B. cuneata, in 

 which the leaves (judging from the poor specimens in Kew Herbarium) are thinner 

 and the fruit larger and nearly glabrous, with more rounded seeds and a broad 

 hilum. 



7. Bassia laueifolia, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree reaching 

 60 feet in height and a diam. of 12 to 18 in. ; branches spreading ; 

 branchlets pale brown, rather thick, innovations densely pubescent 

 with yellowish-tawny hairs. Leaves chartaceous ; obovate-lanceolate, 

 gradually acuminate at apex, also at base ; glabrous on both surfaces 

 except on the sides of the midrib beneath ; 5 to 10 in. long, 1*5 to 

 3"5 in. broad ; midrib prominent, impressed and keeled above ; main- 

 nerves prominent, regular, 14 or 15 pairs, about -3 in. apart, starting at 

 about 45° with the midrib, gradually curving upwards ; reticulations 

 obliquely transverse, faintly marked ; petiole -75 to 1 in. long, slender, 

 glabrous above, tawny-pubescent at base, bordered by the decurrent 

 margins of the blade and marked above by the produced keel of the 

 midrib; stipules linear-subulate, tawny-pubescent, nearly -5 in. long, 

 very caducous. Floioers fascicled, about 6 together, on hairy tubercles 

 in the axils of the leaves or of the scars of fallen leaves near the top of 

 the branchlets; pedicels -4 to b in. long, usually recurved, densely 

 tawny-pubescent, thicker in fruit ; buds small, conical. Calyx-lobes 4, 

 about "2 in. long, rather narrowly ovate; the outer pair obtuse; the inner 

 acute, all densely tawny-pubescent without, glabrous within. Corolla 

 campanulate ; tube "05 in. long with a ring of hairs at the mouth inside ; 

 lobes 8, oblong-spathulate, "1 in. long, glabrous. Stamens 14 to 16, "1 in. 

 long ; filaments short, thickly hairy ; anthers linear-sagittate, the con- 

 nective produced in a long sharp acumen. Ovary rounded, glabrous ; 

 style slender, -3 in. long ; cells apparently 8. Fruit a black glabrous 

 oblong berry about -6 to "7 in. long and -4 in. broad. Seed 1, ovoid, 

 *5 to '6 in. long, slightly compressed ; testa thin, crustaceous, shining, 

 dark brown ; hilum broad ; albumen none ; cotyledons oblong, fleshy, 

 about -3 in. long and nearly -2 in. broad ; radicle inferior, rather large. 



Perak : on low ground. King's Collector 3104, 3718, 3720. 



Var. obtusa, King & Gamble. Leaves obtuse with an abrupt 

 acumen. Calyx-lobes obtuse, thickened at tip. Corolla-lobes ciliate 

 at the apex, glandular-striate ; anthers and produced connective very 

 hirsute. 



Penang : Curtis 159, 2254, 3589 — a small tree, fairly common. 



Var. iKirvifolia, King & Gamble. Leaves smaller than in type ; 

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