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Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3679 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1022 ; Ciiming 

 2318; Bidley 3284, 10731. Pahang : a common bush on the sandy 

 heaths, Bidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2. III. 319. Singapore : 

 Wallich 2813; Walker 183; Ridley 3616a, 8420; King's Collector 

 1138 ; Murton 62. — Distrib. Malay Islands. 



Species Imperfectly Known. 



3. Olea platycarpa, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree with 

 spreading branches, reaching 25 to 30 feet in height ; branchlets 

 stout, pale brown, smooth, marked by the prominent horse-shoe- 

 shaped scars of fallen leaves. Leaves coriaceous ; obovate -. oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate, abruptly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces and with scattered glands ; margins entire, 

 slightly recurved ; 8 to 14 in. long, 3 to 5 in. broad ; midrib very 

 stout and prominent ; main-nerves 14 to 16 pairs, curving upwards to 

 join in a looped intramarginal nerve close to the margin ; secondary 

 nerves few ; reticulations irregular, obscure ; petiole 1 in. long, base 

 enlarged, wrinkled. Floioers dioecious, in extra-axillary, sessile, 

 paniculate, trichotomous cymes, usually on old wood, 1 to 1*5 in. 

 long, supported by a cluster of sheathing scarious bracts ; bracts of 

 panicle branches and bracteoles ovate-acute ; pedicels very short, stout, 

 somewhat angular. Calyx short, -05 in. long ; teeth (in $ flowers) 

 ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla none in J , <? not seen. Ovary conical, 

 rugose ; style ; stigma 2-lobed, mitriform. Drupe ovate-oblong, 

 flattened, -7 in. long, -5 in. broad ; exocarp thick, wrinkled when dry ; 

 endocarp thick, granular ; cells 2. Seed 1, pendulous from the summit 

 of the thin central persistent septum ; testa membranous ; albumen 

 thick, fleshy; cotyledons ovoid, -15 in. long, radicle rather stout. 



Perak : at low levels on the hills. King's Collector 5541, 7649 ; 

 Hervey. 



The absence of male flowers renders the identification of the genus of this plant 

 somewhat uncertain, but we consider it belongs rightly to Olea. 



4. Olea ardisioides. King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree ; branches 

 slender, terete, with yellowish bark ; branchlets minutely pubescent. 

 Leaves coriaceous ; lanceolate, long acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces; margins entire, recurved; 2 to 3 in. long, 

 •6 to -1 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above, raised beneath ; 

 main-nerves 5 pairs, curving upwards to meet in a looped inti'amarginal 

 nerve, obscure ; secondary nerves and reticulations very obscure ; 

 petiole slender, -1 to -2 in. long. Flmvers in axillary or extra-axillary 



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