.] H. N. Ridley: Botany of Gunong Tahan. 



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23. Ilex patens, n. sp. 



A tree with spreading branches; bark black. Leaves 

 alternate, dark green, thinly coriaceous, ovate, entire, obtuse, 

 rounded or slightly narrowed at the tip, base rounded, 2 to 3 

 inches long, i^ to 2 inches wide, smooth, glabrous, shining 

 above, lighter beneath; nerves 4 to 5 pairs, almost invisible 

 above, slightly elevate beneath; midrib prominent beneath; 

 petiole ^ inch long. Flowers cymose on peduncles, as long as 

 the petiole, flattened, grooved, occasionally branched, about 5 

 flowers on a cyme, nearly as large as those of /. glomerata, 

 King, white or pale pink. Calyx-lobes 4 or 5, rounded, 

 glabrous. Petals connate at the base, 4; apex rounded. 

 Stamens 4, adnate to the base of the petals; filaments short, 

 white; anthers black. Ovary conic. Fruit globose, with a 

 short rounded style-beak, J inch long when ripe, on wider- 

 spreading cymes. 



Woods along the stream at the Ninth Camp. 



A pretty tree, allied to /. glomerata, King, but the petals 

 shorter and the cymes borne on peduncles. 



CELASTRACE^. 



*24. Salacia perakensis, King; Ridley, op. cit. p. 306. 

 Gunong Tahan at 5,000 feet (Robinson), not seen again. 

 Previously collected by Scortechini in Perak. 



25. EuoNYMUS jAVANicus, Bl ; antea p. 45. Woods near 

 the Camp stream and on other streams near the Padang. 

 Distribution. Burmah, Malay Peninsula and islands. 



ROSACE.E. 



*26. Pyrus GRANULOSA, Bettol. ; Ridley, op. cit. p. 306. 

 Padang, open woods and borders of streams. 



Distribution. Khasiya, Burmah, Sumatra, Malay 

 Peninsula. 



27. Eriobotrya bengalensis. Hook. fit. A small little- 

 branched treelet with few branches. The leaves more coriaceous 

 and ovate than usual, red when young; flowers white, 

 deliciously fragrant. This is the plant described as Photinia 

 diibia, Wall, in previous lists, from which it was separated by 

 Hooker. It occurs in the East Himalayas, Tenasserim, and in 

 the Malay Peninsula. 



28. Parinarium costatum, bl, var. rubiginosum. A 

 tree about 20 feet tall; the panicles are denser and the stem, 

 backs of the leaves, and flowers more densely covered 

 with ferruginous hairs. 



In a wood on the Padang across the Teku. 

 Distribution of type. Malay Peninsula and Java. 



29. Pygeum rubiginosum, n. sp. 



A small bushy tree. Leaves ovate, acuminate, base 

 rounded or refuse, ij inch long, f inch wide, above smooth, 

 glabrous except the depressed midrib, beneath paler, sparsely 

 hairy except the nerves 6-7 pairs and midrib covered with 



