1903.] Kibg & Gamble— Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 147 



broadly oblanceolate, shortly acuminate, cuneate and sometimes slightly 

 Unequal at the base; upper surface dark-brown with sparse, coarse, 

 glandular, bulbous hairs, the midrib and main-nerves obscure ; lower 

 surface paler, with many glandular hairs on the bold midrib and slightly 

 prominent 7 or 8 pairs of spreading, slightly curved main-nerves ; the 

 interspaces with a few similar hairs, minutely papillose ; length of larger 

 leaf of the pair 3 or 4 in. ; of the smaller 2 to 2'5 in. ; breadth of the 

 larger 17 to 2 in. ; of the smaller '9 to 1"2 in. ; petioles from '3 to '7 in., 

 glandular-pubescent. Cyme umbellate, terminal, solitary, 10- to 12- 

 flowered, pedunculate; the peduncle 4-angled, scurfy like the stem and 

 also glandular-hairy. Floivers on deciduously hairy pedicels, '3 to "4 in. 

 long, bracteolate at the base. Calyx globular-cam panulate, densely 

 glandular-hairy outside ; the teeth short, erect, acute, fleshy, glabrous 

 inside; disk large tumid. Corolla unknown. Capsule globular, crowned 

 by the small erect calyx-teeth and the disk haiiy at first, but becoming 

 glabrous; 2-celled, the placentas axile. Seeds numerous, triangular, 

 pitted, black. 



Perak : Scortechini. 



This appears to be the same specie3 as one of Beccavi's Sumatra plants (Herb. 

 Becc. Argostemma 33). 



8. Argostemma. Ridleyi, King n. sp. Stem decumbent or pros- 

 trate rooting in its lower half, about as thick as a crow-quill, 6 or 8 in. 

 long, 4-angled, softly rusty-pubescent. Leaves in each pair slightly un- 

 equal, membranous, narrowly oval or oval-oblong, acute, the base 

 cuneate; upper surface darkly olivaceous, densely and coarsely pubes- 

 cent on the midrib and nerves and with some scattered hairs on the 

 spaces between ; lower surface paler, the pubescence on the midrib and 

 5 or 6 pairs of main-nerves not so coai^se as on the upper, the reticula- 

 tions with a single row of hairs, the areolae glabrous, but with minute 

 white scales; length *8 to 18 in. ; breadth # 4 to - 8 in. ; petioles *15 to "6 

 in., densely and coarsely pubescent. Stipules lanceolate to broadly ovate, 

 their apices acute and bifid, about *2 in. long. Cyme terminal, solitary, 

 pedunculate, longer than the leaves, umbellately 2-3-flowered ; rusty- 

 pubescent in all its parts; peduncle "75 to 1'5 in. long, bearing a whorl 

 of bracteoles about the middle and another at the base of the pedicels. 

 Flowers '4 in. long, their pedicels much longer. Calyx campanulate with 

 5 broad spreading ovate-acute lobes slightly longer than the tube. 

 Corolla unknown. Capsules obconic, crowned by the prominent calyx- 

 teeth, '15 in. in diam., pubescent. See<k numerous, small. 



Malacca: Ridley 10110. 



9. Argostemma unipolium, Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 94. Rhizome 

 short, fleshy; whole plant glabrous, succulent, 6 to 8 in. high. Stem 



