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and the petiole, but the leaf does not disarticulate when falling. 

 The flowers seem to be always hermaphrodite. I have found 

 bushes in which the flowers were replaced by a globose mass 

 of minute green bracts. 



OLACINE^. 



19. GOMPHANDRA PUBERULA, n. sp. 



A shrub with slender branches, pubescent, with yellowish 

 hairs in the young parts. Leaves ovate, acuminate, apex 

 blunt, base slightly narrowed, rounded, thinly coriaceous, 

 nerves 6 pairs, distant, conspicuousl)- interarching well within 

 the margin, indistinct above, elevated beneath, above glabrous, 

 shining beneath, midrib pubescent with yello\\ish hairs, 

 appressed, the rest covered wath profuse scattered short hairs 

 from black tubercles, caducous in older leaves, 3 to 4 inches 

 long, I J to if inches wide; petiole yellow, hairy, \ inch long. 

 Cymes from the lower axils, peduncles ^ inch long with a few 

 short branches. Calyx small, cupular, with 5 small points. 

 Flowers not seen. Fruits fusiform, slightly narrowed at each 

 end, grooved on one side, crowned with round discoid stigma, 

 J inch long, \ inch through, i-celled and i -seeded. Seed 

 oblong-ellipsoid, straight, not flattened. 



Woods on streams, Padang. 



This appears to be nearest to G. nyssifolia, King, but wuth 

 smaller leaves. 



ILICINE^. 



20. Ilex Griffithii, Hook. fil. A shrub on the Padang 

 and more common on the ridges. Common in the mountains 

 of the Peninsula at an altitude of 4,000 feet, also in Sumatra 

 (Forbes). 



21. Ilex rupicola, n. sp. 



A shrub with elliptic, obtuse, or subacute coriaceous leaves, 

 rounded at the base, 2-2J inches long, i-i^ inch wide, above 

 smooth, shining; nerves invisible, midrib channelled beneath, 

 glaucescent, midrib prominent, nerves faint, 4-5 pairs; petiole 

 thick, \ inch long. Panicle shorter than the leaves terminal, \ 

 inch long, and about as wide, of about six branches. Flowers 

 about 8, subumbellate on the branches, on pedicels -^ inch 

 long, small, white. Sepals orbicular, imbricate, 5, margins 

 ciliate. Petals 5, oblong, hardly connate at the base, edges 

 ciliate. Stamens 5, glabrous ; filament short, thick, forming 

 a keel on the back of the elliptic broad anther. Style short, 

 single. Ovary conic. No disc. Fruit globose, \ inch long, 

 terminated by a short cylindric style-beak. Pyrenes four. 



Padang, Gunong Tahan. 



Most nearly allied to /. epiphytica, King, differing in the 

 foliage and terminal panicle. 



22. Ilex epiphytica. King; antea, p. 45. On the 

 Padang at 5,600 feet altitude. 



Distribution. Perak; (Gunong Kerbau 4,500-6,600 feet). 



