1903.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 227 



when dry ; the midrib impressed on the upper, prominent on the 

 lower; main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, oblique, little curved, prominent 

 beneath ; veins transverse, thin but distinct on the lower surface 

 length 6 or 7 in.; breadth 175 to 2'5 in.; petioles *35 to '4 in. long; 

 stipules about as long as the petioles, triangular-lanceolate, keeled, 

 produced into a long narrow point. Cymes small, shortly pedunculed, 

 axillary. Floivers not seen. Fruit mamillate when young, ovoid 

 and crowned by the small calyx-scar when ripe, smooth, "4 in. long ; 2- 

 celled, 2-seeded. 



Perak: ScortecMni 298; King's Collector 3211. 



6. Diplospora pubescens, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 124. A 

 shrub ; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, compressed, minutely 

 pubescent like the stipules and petioles. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly and obtusely caudate-acuminate, 

 the base cuneate; both surfaces when dry pale-brown, the upper 

 everywhere glabrous and the midrib and main-nerves channelled ; the 

 lower glabrous between the minutely pubescent stout midrib and 

 6 or 7 pairs of slightly curved slender but prominent main-nerves ; 

 length 3 to 6 in.; breadth 1'25 to 2*25 in.; petioles '15 to - 2 in.; 

 stipules about as long as the petioles, narrowly lanceolate, tapering 

 into long subulate points. Flowers about "2 in. long, in dense short 

 axillary sub-sessile heads slightly longer than the petioles. Calyx short, 

 with 4 very small blunt lobes, pubescent. Corolla longer than the calyx, 

 tubular, lobes of limb 4, short, the throat villous. Fruit ovoid-globular, 

 smooth, the calyx scar small; length '4 in. ; seeds 4. Wall. Cat. 8297. 



Perak : ScortecMni 6, 94 ; Ridley 5537. — Distrib. Mergui, Griffith 

 1108; Heifer (Kew. Dist. 2799). 



Imperfectly hioion species. 



7. Diplospora, n. sp. ? Young branches thicker than a crow-quill, densely and 

 minutely cinereous-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, shortly and 

 somewhat bluntly caudate-acuminate, the base slightly narrowed ; both surfaces 

 dark-brown when dry ; the upper shining, glabrous, lower dull, puberulous on the 

 bold midrib and 6 or 7 pafrs of prominent obliqne little curved main-nerves; length 

 4 - 5 to 55 in. ; breadth l'o to 2'35 in. ; petioles "15 to '2 in. ; stipules about as long 

 as the jDetioles, triangular, sub-acute or acute but not acuminate. Floivers not seen. 

 Fruit ovoid-globular, crowned by the small calyx-scar, smooth, '-±5 in. long, and 

 '35 in. in diam. 



Pekak : at an elevation of 5,000 feet ; Wray 4086. 



29. Sctphiphora, Gaertn. 



A small tree with stout terete nodose branches, gum-yielding 

 when young; all parts except the inside of the corolla-tube glabrous. 



