Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 127 



•3 to "5 in. long with subulate bracts ; ultimate racemes umbellate, 

 6-8-flowered ; pedicels slender, short, -1 to -15 in. long ; bracteoles 

 subulate; buds ovoid, obtuse, glabrous. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute or 

 rounded, "05 in. long; margin ciliate, dotted with black glands. Corolla- 

 lobes broadly ovate, blunt, glabrous, 1 in. long, with very few dots ; tube 

 very short. Stamens a little shorter than the corolla-lobes ; anthers 

 acute, but gland-dotted behind; filaments minute, broad. Ovary globose; 

 style subulate, longer than the petals. Berry obovoid, smooth, -15 to 

 •2 in. in diam. A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 119, Prod. VIII. 

 130 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1026 ; Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 521, except var. ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 112, fig. 16. A chrysophylloides, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 574. 



Penang : Wallich 2274. Malacca : Derry 894. Pahang : Biclley 

 1071. JoHOEE : Biclley 6438. Singapgee : Griffith (K.D.) 3564 ; 

 Maingay (K.D.) 1014; Biclley 2817, 8916, 1916(a).— Disteib. Bangka 

 Teysmann. 



10. Aedisia ophieensis, Mez Monog. Myrs. 113 (1901). A shrub (?) ; 

 branchlets pale brown, flattened, smooth ; innovations minutely 

 ferrugmous-scaly. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic, shortly acuminate at 

 apex, rounded or somewhat acute at base ; pale and somewhat shining 

 on both surfaces, the under covered with minute brown peltate scales ; 

 glands scattered, numerous ; 8 to 6 in. long, 1-75 to 2-25 in. broad ; 

 midrib thick, prominent; main-nerves prominent, raised on both surfaces, 

 10 to 12 pairs, starting at an angle of about 75° with the midrib, at first 

 straight then curving upwards to meet some way from the margin in a 

 prominent network; secondary nerves prominent, reticulations trans- 

 verse ; petiole "4 to -5 in. long, thick, bordered above by the decurrent 

 margins of the blade. Inflorescence a terminal, leafy, angular, tripinnate 

 panicle, about 3 to 4 in. long; rachis flexuous, flattened, scaly; peduncles 

 squarrose, about 1 in. long, supported by ovate-oblong, reflexed, leafy 

 bracts; pedicels "8 in. long, slender, in fruit very spreading. Calyx-lobes 

 ovate, acute, '05 in. long, back dotted with prominent large glands. 

 Corolla-lobes eUiptic-ovate, rather oblique, shortly connate, nervose ; 

 glands few, near the apex, black. Stamens rather shorter than the 

 corolla-lobes ; anthers ovate, large, not glandular, apiculate ; filaments 

 short, slender. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style long, subulate, exsert. 

 Berry black when dry, -15 in. in diam., with prominent glands. A. 

 titberculata var. ophirensis, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 522. 



Malacca : Hullett 754 ; Bidley 621 ; Miller 9. On the top of Mount 

 Ophir. 



11. Aedisl*. LABISI.EFOLIA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree ; 

 branchlets thick, slightly flattened, smooth, glabrous below, lepidote- 



