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Johor: Ridley 11140; Kelsall 4082a. Malacca.: Hervey ; Maingay 

 (K.D.) 839; Griffith (K.D.) 2810; Lobb. Perak : Scortechini 63; 

 King's Collector 2691, 7851, 8377; Wmy 2036. Pexang: _£z'?^'s Collector 

 1639, 2691. Pahawg: BiiZe?/ 2195.— Distrib. Borneo, Mo£% 934; 

 Beccari ; Haviland 2967. 



2. Gardenia stenopetala, King & Gamble n. sp. A shrub 4 to 

 8 feet high. ; young branches as thick as a goose-quill or nearly so,- 

 very dark-coloured when dry, covered with deciduous dark pubescence 

 and minute white scales. Leaves large, thinly coriaceous, oblong-ob- 

 lanceolate or elliptic, shortly acuminate, much narrowed to the short 

 petiole; both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry and both (but 

 especially the lower) bearing sparse adpressed partly deciduous hairs, 

 the midrib and nerves more densely pubescent; transverse veins on 

 the lower rather distinct, distant; main-nerves 12 to 14 pairs, curved, 

 ascending or spreading, rather bold on the lower surface when 

 dry; length 7 to 14 in.; breadth 2 to 4 in.; petioles *3 to "5 in.; 

 stipules shorter than the petioles, broadly triangular at the base, 

 the apices long-acuminate. Cymes from the axils of fallen leaves, 

 2-branched and 4- to 6-flowered ; their peduncles under "3 in. long, 

 with narrowly linear, lanceolate bracts. Flowers 2 - 5 to 5 in. long; 

 their pedicels *3 in., narrowly bracteate and rusty-pilose like the cyme- 

 peduncles and calyx. Calyx narrowly campanulate, *4 to '6 in. long, 

 the limb with 5 linear spreading lobes somewhat longer than the 

 tube. Corolla with a puberulous cylindric tube about *5 to "75 in. long 

 containing the 5 linear anthers afc its base ; lobes of the limb 5, narrow, 

 2'5 to 45 in. long and from # 15 to "2 in. wide, with valvate inflexed 

 edges, bearing some scattered hairs ; anthers sessile, "3 in. long. Style 

 filiform; stigma fusiform, shortly bifid. Fruit ovate-oblong, 2 - 5 in. 

 long and 1'5 in. in diani., crowned by the persistent hairy calyx; 

 pericarp thin, brittle, smooth ; seeds ellipsoid, compressed, "3 in. long. 



Perak: Scortechini 1446 ; King's Collector 4156, 4265; Curtis 1306, 

 3144. 



3. Gardenia carixata, "Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey and 

 Wall. II. 560. A shrub ; young, branches as thick as a goose-quill, 

 whitish, glabrous, the cicatrices of fallen leaves prominent. Leaves 

 membranous, obovate to oblanceolate, very shortly acuminate or 

 cuspidate, much narrowed to the base ; both surfaces brown when dry, 

 the upper shining, glabrous except the midrib ; the lower tinged 

 olivaceous, puberulous especially on the stout midrib and 16 to 18 pairs 

 of rather straight spreading stout nerves; length 4 to 7 in. ; breadth 

 2 to 3 in. (sometimes much longer). Flowers 1'5 to 2 in. long, axillary, 

 solitary or in pairs on short bracteolate puberulous pedicels. Calyx 



