196 Miiferidls for n Fhira of the Mnlaynn Peninsnla. 



E. acumivata^ Royle HI. 127, t. 25. iJ. sa/ictydZifl, Blume Mus. Bot. II, 

 118. E. chinensis, Hook. f. and Thorns. Herb. Ind. Or. (not of 

 Brown). 



Var. 2. Wiillichiava, Steud. in Blume Mus. Bot. ii, 118 (sp.) ; 

 styles united. E. Inrida, Wall. Cat. 1462. E. fasciculata, Ham. in 

 Wall. Cat. 1463. E.anivnnnta, Wall. Cat. 1464. E. hifuria. Wall. 

 Cat. 3721 ? E. mei\ihranucea, Cardn. in. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist, vii, 

 444. E. japonicd, )8 acuuiinata, Tliw. Euum. PI. Cey. 41. 



2. EuiiYA WRAYf, King, n. sp. A small tree; young bi'anclies 

 slendei', purplish-biown, laxly pubescent towards the apex. Leaves drying 

 greenish-yellow, thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate, 

 minutely serrulate, the base rounded; upper surface glabrous, shining; 

 lower paler, dull, sparsely pubescent; length 2 to 275 in., breadth 5 to 

 '7 in., petiole '1 in. Flowers narrowly ovate, pointed, scarcely expand- 

 ing, '1 in. in diam., and "2 in. long, axillary, solitary, or in 2-6-flowered 

 sessile umbels, quite glabrous; pedicels slender, glabrous, "J to '15 in. 

 long, bi-bracteolate. Sepals unequal, erect, fleshy, ovate, acute, much 

 imbricate. Petals sub-equal, erect, membranous, ovate, acute, connate 

 in the lower third. Stamens 15, glabrous ; anthers narrow, elonf^ate, 

 shortly apiculate ; filaments short. Ovary ovoid, gradually narrowing 

 into the thick style, imperfectly 3-celled ; stigmas short. Fruit un- 

 known. 



Perak ; at Tapa, Wray. 



Distinguished by its narrowly ovate pointed flower-buds and flowers, 

 and by the rounded bases of its leaves. 



4. ACTINIDIA, Lindl. 



Glabrous, strigose, or tomentose shrubs ; usually climbei-s. Leaves 

 entire or serrate, usually metnbranous, feather-veined. Floivers polygla- 

 ihous or dioecious, in axillary cymes, rarely solitary. Sepals 5, slightly 

 imbricate, subconnate at the base. Petals 5, somewhat contorted-ira- 

 bricate. Stamens many ; anthers dehiscing by slits. Ovary many- 

 celled ; the styles as numerous, divergent and elongated after flowering. 

 Fruit baccate. Distrib. Himalaya, China and Japan ; species about 8. 



1. AcTiNiDiA MiQUELii, King, n. sp. Slender, scandent, 30 to 60 feet 

 long ; young branches cylindric, striate, glabrous, dark-coloured. Leaves 

 membranous, ovate-acuminate to sub-rotund, mucronate, minutely glan- 

 dular-dentate; the base rounded or slightly cordate; upper surface 

 glabrous, rigid, the nerves and midrib minutely pubescent , lower sur- 

 face pale browti when dry, minutely but densely tomentose ; nerves 

 about 5 pairs, the lower spreading, the upper sub-erect, prominent be- 

 neath as ate the midrib and transverse veins ; length 3 to 4 in., breadth 



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