124 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



raised beneath ; main-nerves 8 to 9 pairs, raised, at an angle of 60° with 

 the midrib, the lowest pair more oblique, nearly straight, meeting at 

 about two-thirds of the way to the margin in a looped intramarginal 

 raised nerve, reticulations obscure; petiole -15 in. long, bordered by 

 the decurrent margins of the blade. Inflorescence of sessile, axillary, 

 umbellate, nearly glabrous racemes of about 4 to 6 flowers, racemes 

 hardly -1 in. long; bracteoles oblong-lanceolate, gland-dotted, -1 in. 

 long ; pedicels slender, "3 to '4 in. long, slightly clavate ; buds conical, 

 acuminate, "3 in, long ; flowers white with a blueish tinge. Calyx-lobes 

 4 to 5, very short, rounded, scarious and ciliate on the margins, gland- 

 dotted. Corolla-lobes ovate below, caudate-acuminate above, twisted 

 and reflexed in flower, -3 in. long, sparsely pale-glandular-punctate. 

 Stamens nearly as long as corolla-lobes, lanceolate, membranous at 

 tip, with two lines of glandular dots on the back of the connective. 

 Ovary rounded; style very slender, as long as stamens. Berry bright 

 red, glossy, "25 in. in diam. when dry. 



Pebak : in dense jungle on rich soil, at 500 to 800 feet, King's 

 Collector 4254. 



This species very closely resembles Antistrophe caudata, but is at once distinguished 

 bjr the fact of the corolla-lobes overlapping to the right instead of to the left. The 

 flowers somewhat resemble those of Ardisia porosa. 



5. Ardisia fulva, King & Gamble, n. sp. Apparently a shrub; 

 branchlets rather thick, usually marked by raised lines descending 

 from the bases of the leaves ; innovations densely tawny-villous ; leaf- 

 buds lanceolate, densely pubescent. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic-oblong 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate at apex, somewhat rounded 

 at base ; glabrous or slightly scaly above, thickly tawny - villous 

 beneath ; glandular dots few, scattered, obscure, in the areoles of the 

 minor nerves ; crenate, especially in the upper two-thirds ; 4 to 7 in. 

 long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main-nerves 20 to 24 pairs, 

 irregular, arching upwards and joining in an intramarginal nerve ; 

 secondary nerves slender, faint, reticulations curved ; petiole "4 to '6 in. 

 long, winged by the decurrent edges of the blade, hiflorescence of short 

 1 to 1"0 in. long, densely tawny-pubescent, drooping, corymbs in the axils 

 of tawny, leaf-like, often nearly 1 in. long, bracts from the young branches 

 below the end leaves ; peduncles about -7 in. long, slender, pedicels 

 slender, up to "5 in. long ; bracteoles subulate, short, tawny; buds ovate, 

 •2 to '25 in. long. Calyx-lobes ovate, thin, villous without, ciliate, '1 to 

 •15 in. long, marked with prominent black dots, recurved in flower ; tube 

 short. Corolla-lobes obovate, obtuse, "2 to -25 in. long, oblique, unequal, 

 marked by prominent round or oblong black dots, tube short. Stamens 



