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long ; stigma punctiform. Fruit semiglobose-turbinate, '12-*18 in. long 

 and wide, bullate-muricate. 



Perak ; Larnt, 200-800 ft., Kunstler 1917 ! 2791 ! Cliangkal Sei-dang, 

 Wray 765 ! Blauda Mobok, Wray 3954 ! Maxwell's Hill, Scortechini 16rt ! 

 Hermitage, Curtis 1302 ! Selangor j Dusun Tna, Bidley 7334 ! Kwala 

 Tampan Caves, Ridley 306 ! 



Var. aciiminatissima, Stapf and King. Leaves mostly very long 

 and finely acuminate, on the whole narrower and less asymmetric than 

 ill the type, margins often slightly wavy to remotely serrulate, not 

 rarely with a row of white spots close to them. Petals white. 



Perak ; Larut, 1800-4000 ft., in dense old jungle, Kunstler 2004 ! 

 2161 ! 



25, SoNERiLA BRACTEATA, Stapf and King. An erect or ascending, 

 unbranched or very scantily branched herb, '5-1*5 ft. high, softly and 

 densely hirsute to tomentose from rufous, flexuous or curved, more or 

 less spreading, fine hairs in all parts with the exception of the upper 

 side of the leaves which is glabrous apart from scattered, adpressed, 

 pale bristles. Stem rather stout below with swollen nodes, subflcxuous, 

 leafy part 2 to over 6 in. long. Leaves very dissimilar, the larger of a pair 

 shortly petioled, somewhat asymmetrical, oblanceolate, long and finely 

 acuminate, unequally cordate at the base with a small rouuded lobe on 

 the outer, and a still smaller or obscure lobe on the inner side, entire, 

 ciliate along the margin, membranous, light-green, 3-7 in. by 1-17 in., 

 5-nerved from near the base (the uppermost nerve "5-1 "5 in. above the 

 base), with oblique, transverse veins ; petioles '2 to '4 in. long: small 

 leaves reniform, very minute or up to '3 in. in diam. Cymes terminal 

 and axillary, long-peduncled, very dense, subcapitate at first, at length 

 to 1'5 in. long, multibracteate, many-flowered ; peduncle rather slender, 

 up to 2 in. long ; bracts linear, membranous, ciliate, up to •J2 in. long ; 

 pedicels very short. Calyx shortly obloug-campanulate, '07-08 in. 

 long; teeth lanceolate-triangular, about '04 in. long. Petals oblong, 

 cuspidate-acuminate, white, "08 in. long, with a line of gland- tipped 

 hairs on the back. Anthers short, oblong, obtuse, •06-07 in. lofig. 

 Style '15 in. long; stigma punctiform. Fruit shortly turbinate, '15 in. 

 long and wide, densely muricate. 



Perak ; Larut, in dense old jungle, 3200-3500 ft., Kunstler 2133! 

 Maxwell's Hill, Scortechini 12 ! 



26. Sonerila CAPiTATA, Stapf and King. An ascending, un- 

 branched or scantily branched herb, 3-12 in. high, rufously strigillose on 

 tlie stem, the petioles and the nerves on the underside of the leaves, and 

 also in the cymes, and with few or very few scattered, short haiis on the 

 upperside of the leaves. Stem prostrate at the base, stout, succulent, 

 swollen at the nodes, leafy part up to 7 in. long. Leaves very dissimilar. 



