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reticulatione areolata; petioli graciles, 5-10 mm. longi. Flores 
ignoti, in racemos vel paniculas axillares dispositi. Drupa oblonga, 
nigra, laevis, 2°5 cm. longa, 1 cm. diametro, pedunculo paullo 
incrassato. 
Mauay Prninsuta. Upper Perak, 300 m., Wray, 3785. 
Endiandra Forbesii, Gamble [Lauraceae-Acrodiclidieae] ; species 
E. hypotephrae, F. Muell., accedit, sed foliis majoribus minus 
pubescentibus et inflorescentia longiore differt. 
Arbor, ramuli crassi, rugosi, minute puberuli. Folia coriacea, 
elliptico-oblonga vel lanceolata, apice longe cuspidato-acuminata, 
basi attenuata, supra glabra, infra minutissime puberula tandem 
glauca ; 18-23 em. longa, 6-9 cm. lata ; costa crassa supra profunde 
impressa, infra prominens, nervis lateralibus utrinque 12-14 parallelis 
supra insigniter impressis, infra prominentibus, marginem versus 
leviter curvatis ; reticulatione supra et infra insigniter et minutissime 
areolata ; petiolus crassus, 15-20 mm. longus. Paniculae axillares, 
foliis longiores, fulvo-tomentosae, a medio ramosae, sparsiflorae ; 
rami pauci 2-3 cm. longi, cymulas paucifloras ferentes ; bracteae 
3-4 . diametro. Perianthii 
tubus brevis ; lobi 6, subaequales, ovati. Stamina ordinum I et II 
clavata, apice rotundata, 3; staminodia ordinis 
nulla. Ovarium glabrum, in stylum brevem productum, stigmate 
obtuso. Fructus non visus. ' 
New Guinea. H. O. Forbes, 543. 
XXII.—A HISTORY OF THE GARDENS OF THE MALAY 
PENINSULA. ‘ 
The following account of the Gardens of the Malay Peninsula 
has been extracted from an article entitled “The Abolition of the 
Botanic Gardens of Penang,” by the Editor of the Agricultural 
Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States, published in 
that journal for March, 1910, pp. 100-105. 
‘ 
