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loi. Embelia myrtillus, Kurz. On tree over the 

 stream at the Ninth Camp. 



Distribution. Burmah, Mount Ophir, and Perak Hills. 



102. Labisia pumila, var. lanceolata. A single speci- 

 men brought in by a Dyak from the banks of the Teku River. 



Distribution. Common all over the Peninsula. 



103. AkDISIA PETRICOLA, n. Sp. 



Shrub, branches slender, dark brown; young parts scurfy, 

 ferruginous. Leaves elliptic-obtuse, shghtly narrowed to each 

 end, coriaceous ; nerves numerous, primary nerves slender, 

 horizontal, parallel, hardly distinguishable from the secondary 

 nerves; leaf above smooth and nerves inconspicuous, beneath 

 nerves visible and whole leaf densely dotted with minute 

 glands, midrib elevated, red, scurfy, 3 inches long, ij inch 

 wide ; petiole \ inch long, chanelled and winged to the base, 

 red, scurfy. Panicle terminal, dense, 2 inches long, rachis red, 

 scurfy ; branches 7 or 8, short, half an inch long, bearing cymes 

 of 3 or 4 flowers. Bracts very small. Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes 

 Corolla pink, ^ inch across, tube hardly any; lobes 5, 

 lanceolate acuminate, with large red glands on the tips, 

 lanceolate ovate, obtuse, with numerous red glands on the back 

 Stamens a little shorter ovate, cordate, mucronate, eglandular; 

 filaments short. Style subulate, \ inch long. Buds acute. 



Gunong Tahan, not rare up to 7,186 feet elevation. 



Near A. chrysophyllifolia, King & Gamble, but the panicles 

 almost invariably terminal (I found one plant with axillary 

 panicles as well), not pubescent; the buds acute and stamens 

 not gland-dotted. 



*i04. Ardisia retinervia, Ridl. op. cit. p. 315. Shrub, 

 fruits black. Endemic. 



*i05. Ardisia biniflora, Ridl. op. cit. p. 314; Common 

 in the Padang woods and thickets. Flowers pink. Drupes 

 red. Endemic. 



*io6. 

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Ardisia rosea. King & Gamble; Ridl. op cit. p. 314; 

 50. Common in thickets and open woods on the 

 Padang. Flowers usually nearly white. 



Distribution. Hills of Perak and Selangor. 



107. Ardisia Montana, King & Gamble. A small tree 

 with pink flowers, woods below the Gully. 



Distribution. Perak. 



108. Ardisia i.abisi^folia, King & Gamble. Small 

 tree with the panicle much more lax and spreading than in the 

 type, in woods on the Padang. 



Distribution. Perak. 



STYRACE^. 



log. Symplocos pyriflora, n. sp. 



A medium-sized tree. Leaves coriaceous, drying greenish 

 yellow, elliptic-ovate or lanceolate-acuminate, obtuse, margins 



