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92. Heptapleurum lubidum, Kiikj. 



Gunong Beriimbau at 6,000 feet elevation. It also occurs in 

 the Taiping Hills. The leaves are rather larger than 

 described by King, being often over 4 inches long and 1 

 inch across. The fniit which is undescribed I obtained on 

 the Taiping Hills. It is as large as a pea, five angled with 

 five flattened, half elliptic seeds. 



Oo. H. CORIIFOLIUM, n. ,<!j). 



Shrub stems pale wrinkled, rather stoiit. Leaves five, peiiolate 

 stiffly coriaeeons, petiole 3 inches long, leaflets unequal, elliptic 

 abruptly acuminate, 2-4 inches long, 1-2 inches across, midrib 

 on the back strongly elevated and wrinkled ; nerves 12 pairs, 

 distinct beneath and elevated in the upper surface ; petiole 

 1 inch long. Stipules large, coriaceous lanceolate obtuse, 

 nearly 1 inch long. Panicle shorter than the leaves, 2-3 

 inches long of two or three branches stout angled from a 

 short (} inch) thick peduncle. Branchlets short, 1 inch long, 

 ending in umbels of five or si.x; flowers ; pedicels very short, 1 

 line long ; calyx cupular with a thin-spreading margin. Buds 

 bluntly conic. Petals five, subtriangular with a broad base, 

 norrowed upwards to a rounded, tip, 1 line long. Stamens 

 five, as long Avith h.ng slender filaments and oblong anthers. 

 Styles in a short cone. Fruit l inch long, strongly five ribbed, 

 ovoid, crow^ned by the cone-shaped stigma. Guuong Berum- 

 l)an at 6,500 feet altitude. In flower and fruit. 



Certainly allied to H. friste, King, of Ulu Batang Padang, but 

 that is described as trifoliolate with reflexed petals, and 

 narrow oblong fruit. 



94. Trevesia palmata var. cheirantha, CJarlce. 



Common in the Tahan Woods. 

 Dhfrih. — Malay Islands. 



95. Dendropanax Maingayi, Kivg. 



Gunong Berumban. Common on all the hill ranges at about 

 4,000 feet. Endemic. 



9C^. Arthrophyllum montanum, n. s|». 



A tall plant with the habit of A. dirersifoltuin. Leaves 2 or 

 more feet long, simj^lv pinnate ; leaflets about 12 pairs, 

 lanceolate acuminate, or linear lanceolate acuminate acute, 

 4-6 inches long, ^-1 inch across, thinly coriaceous drying pale ; 

 nerves three to four pairs, sunk above, elevated below ; petiole 

 ] inch long. Umbels terminal on simple peduncles, -i- inch 

 across, crowded on the ends of a branch or on compound 

 umbels, primary peduncle 4 inch long, secondaries 1^-22 

 inches long, all glabrous. Flowers very small, 9-20 in 

 an iimliel ; pedicels ~ inch long. Calyx shallow undulate^ 

 Petals very small, five, ovate triangular obtuse calyptrate. 



