1903.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 175 



and somewhat oblique ; upper surface dark olivaceous-brown when dry, 

 sparsely puberulous ov glabrous, the main-nerves obscure ; the lower 

 pale (glaucous), pinkish, glabrous except for a few scattered hairs on 

 the prominent midrib and 6 to 10 pairs of oblique slightly curved dark- 

 coloured broad main-nerves ; length T5 to 3'5 in. ; breadth "65 to - 85 

 in. ; petioles "15 to "5 in. Stiptdes lanceolate or oblong, -25 in. long. 

 Cymes terminal, solitary or several together on the apices of the branches 

 and stem, shorter than the leaves, the branches shorter than the 

 peduncle, puberulous. Floioers - 35 in. long, sessile or on short pedicels, 

 secund. Calyx "1 in. long, cylindric, with 5 erect triangular acute teeth 

 much shorter than the tube. Corolla "3 in. long, puberulous externally 

 like the calyx, cylindric, slightly widened near at the apex ; lobes 5, 

 short, broad, 1-nerved. Capsules obreniform with very shallow sinus, 

 glabrous, "15 to *25 in. across. 0. argentea, Wall. Cat. 6229. 



Perak:: Scortechini 432 (in part) 634; Wray 1984, 3647; Curtis 

 3147 ; Yapp 539. Pahang : Ridley 2202. Selangor : Kelsall 1989.— 

 Distrib. Khasia Hills. 



7. Ophiorhiza tenella, King n. sp. Erect or decumbent, 6 to 12 

 in. high. Stem slender, much branched, covered with minute yellowish 

 pubescence. Leaves membranous, those in a pair sub-equal, elliptic- 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, sometimes rounded but usually 

 rather abruptly narrowed at the base ; upper surface olivaceous when 

 dry, glabrous except for a very few scattered short thick hairs; lower 

 surface pale greenish-yellow, minutely puberulous on the broad midrib 

 and 6 to 8 pairs of spreading rather straight main-nerves ; length 1 to '2 

 in. ; bi'eadth "5 to 1. in. ; petiole *1 to "25 in., puberulous. Stipules short, 

 cupular, obscurely toothed, less than "1 in. deep. Cymes solitary, 

 terminal, few-flowered, pedunculate, shorter than the leaves. Flowers 

 *3 in. long, almost sessile. Calyx less than *1 in. long, cylindric with 5 

 lanceolate spreading 1-nerved lobes shorter than the tube, covered with 

 short coarse hair. Corolla '25 in. long, funnel-shaped ; the tube slightly 

 dilated near the base ; the 5 lobes ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, spreading, 

 sub-reflexed. Capsule narrowly obreniform, sub-glabrous, '25 in. across. 



Perak : King's Collector 499, 546. Pahang : Ridley 2201. — Distrib. 

 Burma. 



8. Ophiorhiza rdgosa, Wall. Cat. 6235. Herbaceous, sub-erect, 4 

 to 6 in. high, the stem unbranched, thicker than a crow-quill, tomentose. 

 Leaves unequal, membranous, oblong-oblanceolate, or oblong, sub-acute, 

 or shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base narrowed; upper surface 

 dark olivaceous when dry, glabrous or with few scattered short thick 

 hairs, the nerves and midrib inconspicuous ; lower surface pale olivace- 

 ous, with coarse short pubescence on the midrib, reticulations and 12 to 



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