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back, 4 inches long, i| inch wide; petiole slender. Cymes 

 axillary below the leaves, 2 inches long; peduncle i inch, 

 branches and pedicels spreading, pedicels ^ inch long. Fruit 

 \ inch long, small, cupular, with four short sepals. 

 Padang woods. 



This differs from typical M. Hasseltii, BL, in its elliptic 

 blunt leaves, and may be a distinct species, but I corld get no 

 flowers. 



*59. Memecylon Maingayi, Hook, fit.; Ridley, op. cit. 

 p. 310. I found this plant in fruit again as it was collected by 

 Robinson on the previous expedition, and can confirm his 

 statement that it is a climber. As no Memecylon is known to 

 be scandent, and the plant Ic^oks otherwise different from any 

 typical species of the genus, I am doubtful as to what it 

 really is. 



BEGONIACE^. 



*6o. Begonia Herveyana, King; Ridley, op. cit. p. 310. 

 In the Gully. The petioles are cooked and eaten by Malays. 

 Distribution. Pahang and Perak. Common in the hills. 



ARALIACE.E. 



61. Heptapleurum glomerulatum, n. sp. 



Erect treelet. Leaves digitate, petiole terete, 14 inches 

 long, leaflets 8, petiolules 2-3 inches long, blade thinly coria- 

 ceous, elliptic-ovate, cuspidate, rounded, or narrowed slightly 

 at the base, nerves impressed above, elevated beneath, 6 inches 

 long by 3 inches wide, drying black, paler beneath. Panicles 

 short, not fully developed, with several branches, scurfy. 

 Flowers sessile, in small globose heads subtended bj- lanceo- 

 late-acuminate bracts, ^ inch long, ciliate on the margins. 

 Floral bracts similar, smaller and narrow^er. Calyx short and 

 broad, turbinate. Petals pubescent, ovate, blunt, connate. 

 Stamens 6, short, filaments very short, not as long as the 

 anthers; anthers elliptic, blunt. Stigmas connate, forming a 

 blunt cone. 



Woods on the banks of the stream at the Ninth Camp. 

 Several trees of this were seen, but only one bore young 

 flowers. 



The tree is allied to the little-known H. Scortechinii, but 

 differs in the broader, shorter, thinner leaves and bracts flat, 

 not convolute, lanceolate-cuspidate, and ciliate with white 

 hairs. 



62. Heptapleurum elegans, n. sp. 



A tall, rather slender-stemmed plant. Leaves digitate, 

 with ten leaflets, leaflets elliptic, cuspidate, coriaceous, drying 

 dark brown, polished above, glabrous, 4 inches long, i^ inch 

 wide; nerves six pairs, indistinct; petiolule i inch long; petiole 

 10 inches long, rather slender, ^ inch through when dr)'. 

 Panicles numerous, about 5, strict, erect, 12 inches long, basal 

 3 inches nude, terete, above with distant umbels half an inch 

 long ; peduncles scurfy ; flowers small, about 20 in an umbel. 



