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H. N. Ridley: Botany of Gnnong Tahan. 



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5 to 7 pairs, very slender and obscure; midrib grooved above, 

 thick and elevated beneath ; the leaves dry pale brown, lighter- 

 coloured beneath ; petiole \ inch long. Cymes compound in 

 the upper axils, 2 to 3 inches long; many-flowered, the 

 bratiches obscurely angled. Pedicels short, oblong, angled. 

 Flowers white, resembling those of the preceding species. 

 Calyx-tube oblong-conic, \ inch long; lobes small, ovate. 

 Petals small. Fruit oblong, globose; the base rounded, 

 erminated by the short oval sepals. 



Gunong Tahan at the top in a small woody patch, at 

 7,186 feet altitude. 



This species is certainly allied to E. Pahnngensis, but is 

 distinct in its obovate leaves, narrowed at the base, and the 

 much fewer nerves. The leaves are also less thickly coriaceous. 



*46. Eugenia viridescens, Ridl. op. cit. p. 308. A shrub 

 with buds white tipped with pink. Common on the Padang. 

 Endemic. 



47. Tristan I A fruticosa, n. sp. 



Usually a small shrub about 3 or 4 feet tall, bushy; ttie 

 bark red, flaking off. The leaves crowded, coriaceous, oblan- 

 ceolate-obtuse, shortly narrowed towards the blunt tip and 

 narrowed gradually to the base, dark green, drying greenish 

 yellow above, yellow beneath, nerves 30 pairs, joining a fine 

 intrauiarginal vein within the edge, midrib prominent beneath, 

 2 to 4 inches long, i to 2 inches wide; petiole thick, winged 

 to the base, ^ inch long. Cymes axillary and terminal, 

 numerous, shorter than the leaves, i inch long; peduncle 

 stout ; pedicels short, thick. Flowers \ inch across, calyx- 

 lobes 5, triangular, spreading. Disc large, flat. Petals 

 obovate, clawed, small. Stamens numerous, filaments very 

 short in fascicles ; anthers small. Capsule \ inch long, 

 dehiscing into three ovate lobes, on the remains of the calyx 

 in the form of a flat spreading saucer. Seeds three in each 

 cell, ^ inch long, crescent-shaped or oblong-cuneate, flat, light 

 brown. 



Abundant on the Padang. In the thicker woods there were 

 trees of larger size which may belong to this species, but I 

 could get no flowers on these. 



The species is allied to T. Merguiensis, but difl"ers in the 

 glabrous flowers and the shallow flat calyx with longer points. 



MELASTOMACE^. 



48. Melastoma longisepala, n. sp. 

 Melastonia malabathricuin, Ridley, op. cit. p. 508. 



A tall straggling bush about 12 feet tall. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, lanceolate-acuminate, shortly narrowed at the base, 

 4 inches long and i inch wide, glabrous above,, beneath hairy 

 on the nerves with broad flattened scalelike hairs, nervules 

 finely hairy ; petiole scaly, hairy, ^ inch long, red. Flowers on 

 pedicels J inch long. Bracts 2, lanceolate-acute, red, f inch 

 long. Calyx ^ inch long, covered with pale yellow scales; 



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