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[915.] H. N. Ridley : Botany of Gunong Tahan. 149 



beneath hairy with small hairs, the nerves densely covered 

 with longer black hairs, as are the margins of the leaf; petiole 

 3 inches wide, black, hairy. Panicle in fruit, terminal base 

 with spreading branches, hairy, 8 inches long. Fruit pink, 

 elongate urn-shaped, narrowed to the base, J inch long, on a 

 pedicel as long, glabrous. 



Damp woods in the Gully and the first Padang stream 

 In fruit only. 



Allied to 0. rosea, Ridl., of the Tahan River and Trengganu, 

 but differing in the rounded cordate peltate leaf-base and its 

 hairiness. 



53. [Pachycentria speciosa, n. sp. 



Epiphytic shrub, strongly woody, with a stem over a foot 

 tall, J inch through, bark grey, branched above, branches 

 knotted. Leaves fleshy coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, narrowed 

 to an obtuse tip, base shortly narrowed, nerves 3, not very 

 conspicuous except the midrid beneath, 2-3! inches long, 

 I inch across, petiole f inch long; Flowers in umbelled red 

 viscid cymes, terminal on the branches ; peduncle f inch long, 

 cyme-peduncles | inch, pedicels 5 inch, each cyme of 3 flowers. 

 Bracts minute, tooth-like. Calyx-tube dilate at base, over the 

 ovary subglobose, above a tube ending in a shortly 4-lobep 

 limb, constricted below, ^ inch long, red, viscid. Petals 4, 

 ovate, cuspidate, rose-pink, J inch long. Stamens 8, unequal, 4 

 short, 4 rather longer, all similar in form ; filaments linear, 

 long, flat; anthers yellow, C3'lindric, acuminate-arcuate, base 

 bifid with two short curved points, connective at the back of 

 the base, prolonged into a short linear process. 



Above Wray's Camp on a Livistona Tahanensis, Becc. 

 This beautiful plant is distinct in possessing the largest and 

 showiest flowers of any recorded species. The whole of the 

 inflorescence is very viscid and gummy, as is the case in other 

 species of this genus.] 



54. SoNERiLA c^siA, Stapf. A large form in the Gully 

 below the Padang. 



Distribution. Perak and Telom in Pahang. 



55. SONERILA TENUIFOLIA, Bl. antca, p. 46, In the Gully 

 and damp spots along the first stream on the Padang beyond 

 the waterfall. 



Distribution. Mountains of the Peninsula, Java, and 

 Borneo. 



56. Phyllagathis hispida, King. In the Gully and the 

 Teku woods up to about 4,600 feet elevation. Common in 

 the woods of the Tahan River and in Perak. 



*57. Medinilla Pahangensis, Ridl. op. cit. p. 310. 

 Gunong Tahan at 5,000 feet {Robinson). Not seen again. 

 Endemic. 



58. M. Hasseltii, var. Epiphyte, stem white, with 

 dark warts. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, blunt, slightly narrowed 

 at the base, fleshy, pale beneath, nerves 3, prominent on the 



