152 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1016, in the mountains about 4,500 feet and 

 below. 



Although Wray and Scortechini describe this more or less as a " tree," Maingay's 

 specimen is that of a semi-herbaceous undershrub about 24 in. high, sending out roots 

 from above the ground-level. 



44. Aedisia THBiEFOLiA, King & Gamble, n, sp. A small shrub 

 reaching 3 feet in height ; branchlets brown, smooth, the uppermost 

 parts and innovations rusty-glandular-pubescent. Leaves chartaceous ; 

 elliptic, long acuminate at apex, acuminate at base ; alternate or sub- 

 opposite or falsely whorled; minutely glandular-pubescent on both 

 surfaces, scaly beneath; margins recurved, finely toothed except on 

 the lower third and on the acumination, the teeth erect, glandular ; glan- 

 dular dots very numerous and prominent on both surfaces ; 2 to 3 in. long, 

 •7 to 1*2 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, close, 

 ■curved upwards to near the margin, reticulations obscure ; petiole 

 •4 in. long, bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Inflor- 

 escence a 1*5 to 2 "5 in. long panicle with short racemose branches in the 

 axil of a leaf or of a subulate "2 in. long linear abortive leaf between the 

 leaves on the upper part of the branches ; branches '5 in. long, slender, 

 divaricate ; bracteoles minute, linear ; flowers 2 to 5 in each raceme, 

 buds ovoid. Calyx-lobes 5, rounded, "05 in. long, ciliate. Corolla-lobes 

 5, white, ovate, acute or obtuse, "15 in. long, gland-dotted. Stamens as 

 long as corolla-lobes ; filaments very short ; anthers broadly oblong, 

 mucronate. Ovary rounded, gradually produced in an erect or curved 

 style, '1 in. long. Berry pyriform or nearly globose, '2 in. in diam., 

 smooth, slightly ribbed when dry. 



Peeak : on TJlu Batang Padang at 4,900 feet, Wray 1513 ; 

 Scortechini. 



45. Aedisia odontophylla, Wall. Cat. 2279 (1829) {not of Lindl.) ; 

 A. DC. Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 125, t. VI., Prod. VIII. 135 ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 525 ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 150. A. pavonina, 

 Herb.Hamilt.^fie DC. in Prod. I.e. — Disteib. India(Assam and Cachar). 



Vae. Lobbii, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 526. An almost 

 herbaceous undershrub reaching to about 2 feet in height, the stems 

 rooting from nodes near the base ; bark fleshy, pale brown ; pith large ; 

 upper part of stem densely fulvous-villous ; leaf-buds small, short. 

 Leaves membranous, sub-opposite ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong or 

 obovate-lanceolate, acute at apex, cuneate at base and sometimes 

 slightly rounded ; the margins sharply serrate except for a short dis- 

 tance near the base ; glabrous above except on the hirsute midrib, rusty- 

 tomentose beneath, the midrib and main-nerves usually ferruginous- 



