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oblong, obtuse. Fruit globular, smooth, black, small, sup- 

 ported by the enlarged saucer-like calyx. 



Wray's Camp, in bushy spots {Robinson & Wniy, 5,343; 

 Ridley, 16,255) at 3,300 feet. 



I have seen no type of G. ohlanceolata, King & Gamble, 

 but from description I take it that the plant intended is one 

 of much stouter habit and large leaves, with short-panicled 

 cymes shorter than the leaves, which occurs at Maxwell's Hill 

 on the Taiping Range. 



In the Tahan plant elongate branches are borne which 

 cany narrow leaves very different from the stem-leaves, and 

 on the ends of the branches are slender, reduced, compound 

 cymes. 



Allied to this plant is one from the Semangko Pass and 

 one from Bukit Hitam in Selangor, \\ hich I will describe here.] 



123. [Gaertnera diversifolia, n. sp. 



Stem woody, stout, 5 inch through, pale brown; stem- 

 leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblanceolate, acuminate, 

 cuspidate, gradually narrowed to the base, glabrous, nerves 

 conspicuous on both surfaces, 6 to 10 pairs, 11 inches long and 

 3 inches wide; petiole winged for part of its length, only an 

 inch long, stout. Stipules tubular, half an inch long, with 5 

 long setaceous teeth. Side-branches 10 inches long, base for 

 3 or 4 inches bare (a single internode), then i to 2 pairs of 

 leaves, distant, terminated by i or 2 rather lax-panicled cymes 

 i^ inch long; leaves 2-3 inches long, ^-\ inch wide, lanceolate- 

 acuminate. .Stipules shorter and often split. Inflorescence 

 glabrous, of short stout branches, each bearing three flowers, 

 lower branches rebranched. Pedicels very short, -j^t; inch. Calyx 

 cup-shaped, with five short teeth. Corolla white, \ inch long; 

 tube cylindric, thick; lobes oblong-obtuse, as long, glabrous 

 outside. Fruit globose, smooth, one-seeded or double globose, 

 2-seeded, \ inch long; calyx but little enlarged; seed globular. 

 Selangor, Bukit Hitam (Kelsall, 1,995; Ridley, 7,429.) 

 This plant seems to me to be intermediate between the 

 plant from Maxwell's Hill and the next species. The elongate 

 axillary cymes with a long basal internode and the different- 

 shaped leaves in this branch are absent in the former, while in 

 the general structure of the stem-leaves and the flowers it 

 resembles it.] 



124. [Gaertnera intermedia, n. sp. 



Stem woody, stout. Leaves oblanceolate, abruptly 

 cuspidate, gradually narrowed from the middle to the base, 

 subcoriaceous, nerves 10 pairs, conspicuous and prominent 

 beneath, hardly so above, minutely dotted on both surfaces, 8 

 inches long, 2I inches wide; petiole \ inch long, winged nearly 

 to the base. Stipules tulular with 4 or 5 setaceous points, 

 often splitting in 2 halves. Floriferous branches nearl}- a 

 foot long, with 4 pairs of leaves, internodes 3 inches long; 

 leaves narrowly lanceolate-acuminate at both ends, smallest 

 ones at the base, i inch long, ^ inch wide, upper ones 2 inches 



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