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122. Gr. DIDYMOCABPUS, H. SJ). 



Acranthera didymocarpus, Pearson MSS. 

 Shrublet, with a stem 2 or 3 inches tall, tleiisely hairy. Leaves 

 ol)lony, or ol)loug- ovate acuminate, narrowed slightly at the 

 base, hairy all over with long soft hairs, especially on the 

 margins and keels ; nerves inconspicuous above, 7 to 10 

 pairs, 6-7 inches long, 2 inches wide ; petiole 1 inch long 

 or less. Stipules lanceolate acute, densely hairy. Flowers 

 from the bare part of the stem solitary or in threes, Avith four 

 or live linear acuminate hairy bracts, j inch long, on the 

 very short peduncle. Calyx lobes five or six linear acuminate, 

 1 inch long, hairy. Corolla campanulate, base of tube shortly 

 cylindric, then dilating hairy outside and especially on the 

 edges of the lobes, 2 inches long and over 1 inch across, 

 yellow with pink spots in the tube, lobes rounded five or six. 

 Stamens connivent, included five or six, anthers linear, ^ inch 

 long, filaments as long. Style thick, stigma fusif<->rm. Capsule 

 nearly 1 inch long, cylindric hairy on i-inch pedicel and 

 crowned with the long persistent sepals. 



Sclangor at Gintiug Bidei, and Bukit Kutu at 2,000-3,000 feet 

 altitude (Ridley, 7573), and on the Raujb track at the 15th 

 mile from Kuala Kubu. 



123. G. viRESCKNs, n. .^p. 



Stem woody over 1 foot tall, scabrid hairy on the young parts. 

 Leaves in remote pairs, thin, broadly lanceolate or elliptic 

 lanceolate, 5-6 inches long, 2 inches wide, glabrous above 

 except for some scattered fugacious very small hairs, beneath 

 shortly scabrid hairy on the nerves and midrib ; eight pairs of 

 nerves ; petiole 1 inch long, slender, glabrous. Stipules ovate 

 fringed with long jDoints, j inch long. Flowers solitary or in 

 pairs from the axils, usually below the leaves. Peduncles, 

 l-j_ inch long, slender, scurfy hairy. Calyx lobes linear, 

 acuminate, scurfy hairy, t. inch long. Coi'olla tube, 2 inches 

 long, glabrous, cylindric for nearly half its length, then dilated 

 mouth I inch across, lobes short, undulate, green with pink 

 spots. Stamens H inch long. 



Perak, Taiping Hills, near the " Cottage," only a single plant 

 seen in 1891. 



124. TiMONIUS BIFFUSUS, n. S2>. 



A big tree, much branched with slender twigs. Leaves thin 

 glabrous, broadly lanceolate acuminate, almost equally acumi- 

 nate at both ends, 4-6 inches long, 2 inches wide ; nerves eight 

 pairs, curved up to the margin, slender, most conspicuous on 

 the lower surface ; petiole f inch long. Stipules linear acumi- 



